Description
Edinburgh: Business Analyst - £300 - £350 per day.
EA Change Group's Edinburgh based Banking client urgently requires a motivated and enthusiastic Business Analyst to join them on a contract basis.
Experience required:
Payments experience essential - BACS/CHAPS/SWIFT etc
Helps manages the scope, requirements analysis and business solution design. Typical business analysis activity expected - planning, eliciting, analysing, defining, communicating and validating requirements for required changes.
Key Accountabilities:
- Undertake specific Business Analysis activities across the Liquidity and Payments workstreams, working as part of the overall BA team and with the PM to collate and document the requirements of the relevant workstreams. The BA will be expected to produce standard BA artefacts including Business Process Flows, Business USE cases etc. The BA will also support test script preparation, operating model activity, implementation and post live issues.
- Requirements Elicitation: Helps manage business engagement to understand, challenge and document underlying business needs, translating these into project scope, objectives and business goals.
- Requirements Development: Helps design and facilitates business need workshops to analyse, define and prioritise requirements, challenging thinking and agreeing outcomes to ensure robust requirements development and approval.
- Requirements Management: Helps define and manages the documentation of business requirements (including requirements catalogues and traceability matrices) and prepares business case underpinning solution options.
- Solution Assessment & Validation: Understands and articulates the effect of proposed solutions, creating accurate and detailed as-is and to-be business models incorporating process and benefit analysis, people and customer impact assessment. Develops cross business and service user acceptance plans and communications to support implementation.
- Structure Approach: Helps define business analysis approach, applies project best practice throughout the life cycle with supporting documentation and tools, promoting equivalent behaviour across the team.
- Stakeholder Management: Engages a variety of stakeholders across priority business/product areas, owning and gathering specification input, delivering high quality work and maintaining relationships post project close.
- People & Self Development: Builds and maintains effective working and influencing relationship with appropriate colleagues to share knowledge and best practice. Takes responsibility for self-development and that of any direct reports, actively seeking and providing feedback and responding accordingly.
- Risk: Owns resolution of business analysis issues, identifying and managing mitigating actions against design risks as directed by the Lead Business Analyst.
Essential Skills
- Payments experience
For more information, please apply online. Due to the high volume of application only those suitable for the role will be contacted. If you have not been contacted within 5 days assume you are unsuccessful.