Business Analyst - Operational efficiency

Principal Functions:

To ensure that key project requirements are documented, prioritised and understood by stakeholders, and then to liaise with technical teams in order to ensure that the business requirements are understood, built and tested appropriately.

Our client is looking for someone with experience to buyside firms (asset/wealth management) with experience within operational efficiency.

Roles & Responsibilities:

To elicit, analyse and document requirements in order to create business requirements documents and user stories.

To validate solutions in order to ensure that they deliver value and meet stakeholder needs.

To work with internal and external developers in order to provide intelligent input into sprint planning and retrospective meetings.

To challenge project managers to ensure that assigned projects are appropriately planned and monitored from a schedule, risk, issue, dependency, supplier and benefits realisation perspective.

To raise risks, issues and dependencies to project managers in a timely manner.

To carry out testing and to facilitate user acceptance testing in order to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose.

To reside on project working groups and to proactively provide intelligent input.

To ensure that the project's working practices comply with internal Change governance procedures and controls.

To champion Change governance procedures and controls around the firm.

To promote a culture of continuous improvement within the Change team and the BA Improvement Practice.

Qualifications & Experience:

Educated to degree, or equivalent level (2:1 or above).

Project qualifications desirable - preferably across Prince2 and Agile.

At least five years of business analysis experience, ideally within asset or wealth management.

Experience working with third-party vendors.

Experience delivering training sessions to users.

Ability to work in a complex operating environment where systems documentation is often not available. Candidates must have excellent people skills and high levels of resilience in order to gather requirements from the relevant SMEs.

Knowledge & Skills:

Strong analysis and problem-solving skills:

Ability to undertake analysis from a user-centric viewpoint, utilising user journeys, user personas and data to build requirements.

Ability to convert user outcomes and requirements into a set of business and development user stories while ensuring traceability is clear.

Sufficient digital, operational and technical knowledge to be able propose potential solutions.

Knowledge of the full SDLC

Strong writing skills and thus the ability to produce high-quality documents.

Excellent time management skills.

Ability to prioritise workload.

Ability to apply a variety of techniques to model and document business processes and functionality.

Flexible, self-motivated and proactive with an enthusiastic attitude.

Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to deal with people at all levels.

Quick learner with the ability to multi-task.

Knowledge of Wealth and Investment management