Business Analyst

Business Analyst

My client within financial services based in Surrey are recruiting for a Business Analyst with extensive experience of buisness change proposals.

As a Business Analyst you will support across the change lifecycle, helping to make informed decisions and deliver the best value for the business and the end customer.

As a Business Analyst, you will be working in a hybrid WFH / Office set up, currently the team get 1 day from home and 4 in the office.

As a Business Analyst you will be responsible for:

• Support stakeholders with the articulation of Business Change proposals
• Assess proposals for desirability, feasibility & viability
• Help stakeholders with cost-benefit analysis and the creation of business cases
• Define requirements & work with technical teams to ensure traceability to a proposed solution design
• Help deliver new or improved products & services (through in-house developments or via a 3rd party vendor), ensuring alignment to our Architectural roadmap
• Support Business Acceptance Testing & Business Readiness activities
• Support the evolution of the BA Service through continuous improvement

Business Analyst Benefits:

• 22 days holiday + 8 Bank Holiday (Holiday's increase to 27, 1 additional day per year worked)
• Healthy contributed pension
• Training and development
• Access to a number of financial based products
• Dress down Fridays

Business Analyst Key Skills & Experience:

• Investigate business situations, e.g. researching, conducting interviews, facilitating workshops
• Document business situations, e.g. drawing rich pictures, context diagrams or process modelling
• Identify & manage stakeholders e.g. using a RACI matrix or a Power & Interest grid
• Elicit, analyse and validate requirements, e.g. Who-What-Why & Root Cause Analysis
• Document & manage requirements, e.g. Story mapping, INVEST stories, MoSCoW
• Work at different levels of details to support of the end-to-end Change Lifecycle e.g. proposals, assessments, cost-benefit, business cases, analysis & design, delivery and implementation
• Experience of working in a regulated environment
• Knowledge of banking systems
• Experience of both Waterfall and Agile project methodologies
• Experience in Agile ways of working e.g. user story mapping, backlog refinement and sprint planning
• Experience of using the Microsoft suite (e.g. Visio and PowerPoint), Requirements Management tools (e.g. Azure DevOps or JIRA) and online collaborative tools (e.g. Miro)

Business Analyst Key Behaviours:

• Active listening
• Critical thinking
• Probing and respectful challenge
• Conflict management
• Effective written & verbal communication
• Agile mindset, i.e. user centred, data driven, collaborative, build-measure-learn, embrace change
• Growth mindset and desire to continually development oneself and the BA service
• Balance of Introvert/Extrovert tendencies

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