Business Analyst


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Spring Group Plc

Listed on

16th January 2019

Location

Birmingham

Salary/Rate

£40000 - £45000

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Business Analyst

Business Analyst / Business Change / Insurance / Permanent / Birmingham

Very exciting client based in Birmingham is looking for a Business Analyst to join their Business Change team due to continued growth!

The Business Analyst will understand and analyses business needs and strategies and translate these into work packages and definitions suitable for delivery by technology and business project teams. You will also ensure that project deliveries adhere to the business requirements and support delivery teams in delivering solutions that meet those needs, working with both the project teams and stakeholders as required.

Key responsibilities:

*To plan and lead workshops with business and technical staff, documenting outputs, proactively seeking subsequent agreement and sign-off.

*To elicit functional and non-functional requirements via techniques such as interviews, workshops, process modelling and examination of business collateral. Document requirements with clear priorities.

*To understand current business processes and map them in standard formats such as Cross-Functional Flowcharts.

*To recognise opportunities for improvement to current business processes through logical reasoning and an appreciation of the technical impact in an SOA environment.

*To reconcile conflicting information obtained from multiple sources and be able to recognize the "big picture" from a jumble of low-level information.

*To propose innovative solutions that enable the company to achieve its objectives, leveraging an excellent understanding of the commercial environment and challenging the assumptions of business departments where appropriate.

*To act as a conduit between business staff and the technical development and support teams.

*To "reverse-engineer" existing systems in detail and document them as necessary.

*To manage Model Office testing and to support the UAT Manager as necessary. Includes contributing to the creation of test scripts, plans and scenarios, as well as preliminary testing of software to verify requirements have been met.

*New ideas proposed and implemented for improvement to business processes and/or software development practices.

Key skills and experience required:

*Proven experience of providing Business System Analysis services in a project environment.

*Experience working with third party outsourced companies.

*Perceived to be a domain expert by both business and IT teams.

*Knowledge of modelling practices (e.g. UML or BPMN/BPEL).

*Good knowledge of Microsoft Visio or other modelling / graphical tools.

*Experience in both waterfall and RAD/agile implementations.

*Model Office / UAT management/Use cases.

*Experience working in the Insurance sector is also highly advantageous.

This is a very exciting opportunity to join a growing organisation during an exciting period of change. The salary on offer for the role is £40,000-£45,000 plus a great company benefits package.

Please apply ASAP to be considered!

Business Analyst / Business Change / Insurance / Permanent / Birmingham

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