Agile Scrum Kanban BA/PM - (Power BI, SSRS, Business Objects) Investment Banking

Role is for an experienced BA/PM from an investment banking background ESSENTIAL 

ESSENTIAL 

• Knowledge of Agile practices (Scrum/Kanban)
• Understanding of reporting tools eg, Power BI, SSRS, Business Objects
• Skilled at dealing with third party vendors
• Adept at managing risks and issues and skills to find ways to move things forward with minimal supervision
• Skilled at producing clear user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria
• Skilled at producing robust test cases
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Key Responsibilities of role

Business Analyst

• Create business case including the suggestion and assessment of appropriate alternatives.
• Write user stories or functional specifications to a necessary level of detail for users/developers/vendors as necessary - across multiple countries.
• Elaborate requirements/user stories with clear acceptance criteria that lend to test cases
• Create test plans and identify entry/exit criteria for each test phase.
• Execute system testing, record all results, and provide input for defect prioritisation.
• Plan and support the user acceptance testing (UAT). Provide input on the priority of UAT defects.
• Provide updates on progress on tasks at the daily stand-up.
• Share & escalate risks and issues promptly, with steps to minimise the impact.
• Develop user training requirements and conduct trainings as appropriate.
• Manage vendors for third party system implementation

Project Manager

• Handle multiple demands from different stakeholders.
• Engage with all the relevant stakeholders for project success. Ensure that the project team is positively motivated to achieve results.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and encourage the rest of the project team to follow suit.
• Build and maintain realistic project plan - including risks, issues, and interdependencies with actions to manage the impact.
• Provide regular project status reporting to management, project sponsors and stakeholders and run steering committees when needed.
• Set the project budget and manage any deviations in a timely manner.
• Promptly escalate issues requiring support from line management and sponsors.
• Ensure appropriate testing for all projects - manage defects prioritisation within the team and with the sponsor as needed.
• Ensure that the project is closed in a controlled manner, recording learnings, providing final budget versus actuals status, and ensuring handover to production support teams

Inside IR35; Partly Remote

Adlam Consulting operates as an Employment Agency & an Employment Business Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

Contact Name: Adlam Consulting Ltd
Reference: TJ/7528/ADL03174
Job ID: 3116324