Business Analyst - Financial Services - Manchester - Permanent

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Business Analyst - Financial Services - Manchester - Permanent

The Role

Reporting to the Lead Business Analyst the Business Analyst is responsible for Business Analysis deliverables on a program, multiple projects and/or small changes across the business.

The Business Analyst works as part of a cross functional team completing business analysis deliverables including leading the process of gathering, elicitation, prioritisation, tracking and documenting of business requirements, business rules and benefits/disbenefits identification.

Perform business analysis and/or systems analysis on high profile, highly complex and/or strategic business initiatives

Liaise with Business Stakeholders at all levels to ensure common understanding of business objectives and scope

Analysis of business processes and systems and recommendations for their improvement with the use of modelling and statistical research

Contribute to impact assessment, scoping and estimating of analysis activity within the portfolio and small change initiatives

Work with business representatives and stakeholders at all levels of seniority to elicit their business requirements, using appropriate techniques e.g. workshops, questionnaires, 1:1 interviews, etc.

Use a combination of business and technical knowledge , determine the implication of feasibility of system design and integration working closely with architects and developers

Support Business Stakeholders in the design and development of business processes and business process re-engineering

Communicate proposed solutions back to Business Stakeholders to ensure these meet with the business requirement

Guide and mentor less experienced Business Analysts across the Change and Development department

Capture risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies both at a project and requirements level and communicate as appropriate

Support Business Stakeholders with Benefits Management; specifically helping them with identification, definition, planning, tracking and realisation of business benefits within projects

Maintain excellent awareness of industry methods, tools and techniques and recommend changes to the existing processes where appropriate

Skillset

Awareness of and experience in Waterfall and Agile business analysis approaches

Demonstrates evidence of performing the analysis and documentation of operational processes and business requirements

Experience using Business Process Modelling Notation

Able to work effectively across multiple change projects or change activities simultaneously

Demonstrable Stakeholder Management skills

Ability to think analytically, to deal with detail, and to extract and present relevant information concisely

Please apply online to be considered for this role.