Business Analyst

Business Analyst

6 months £650 per day PAYE

Financial services client Working on an interesting, busy, and diverse change portfolio that directly impacts
consumers.

The Business Analyst sits within each Divisional Services team and is responsible for the
delivery of clear business and functional requirements and related deliverables and
traceability of requirements through design, development, testing and delivery within the
assigned programmes and projects to ensure business outcomes are articulated and
understood, and can be proved to business acceptance criteria.

What does the role involve?

Defining the business analysis approach for your assigned programme/project in
alignment with the FCA Business Analysis Framework, ensuring that BA output on the
project is fit for purpose, represents value for money, is correctly sized and is delivered on
time.
End-to-end requirements management using BA best practice techniques to:
-elicit requirements through workshop facilitation
-document business requirements in a requirements catalogueseek agreement and ownership of requirements
-work with Product Groups, Solution Architects, technology suppliers, & impacted business areas to agree suitable solutions.
-Assure requirements are delivered correctly by playing a key role in UAT testing
-Assure requirements are delivered completely through complete requirements
traceability management

Completing other Business Analysis deliverables as applicable to the project in order to
model requirements or enhance understanding. Deliverables will be documented
comprehensively, clearly & in line with recognized best practice BA tools and techniques.
For example:
• Gap analysis
• Business processes

• Data flow diagrams
  • Options papers
  • Business Activity Models
  • Rich pictures
  • Use cases
  • User stories
  • User journeys
  • Data models
  • Training guides
  • Investment cases

Work collaboratively with project stakeholders, business subject matter experts, suppliers,
and product groups in order to deliver the project outcomes to the highest possible
standards in a hybrid working environment. Use this close engagement to proactively
identify opportunities which add value for the whole team.

Essential criteria

Has held a role(s) as "Business Analyst" or "Consultant"
* Substantial experience in working in project/programme environments involving
business & IT change.
Business analysis experience within any of the following types of organisations/sectors:
financial services, government/regulatory body, technology, consultancy (ideally IT
consultancy).

Vast knowledge of business analysis tools, techniques and best practice
approaches, including end-to-end requirements management. Shows pragmatism
in being able to select and adapt the right approach for the right situation.
• Can quickly develop domain knowledge in order to effectively and credibly engage
with stakeholders on the problem statement.
• Delivers quality outputs at pace in both structured, and fluid/challenging project
environments.
• Assures the delivery of business requirements to ensure that the solution is fit for
purpose.
• Experience of project lifecycles delivered within a range of project delivery
methodologies including Waterfall & Agile.