Description
Role - Lead Business Analyst
Duration - 6 months
Location - London
Purpose of the Role
Completes the scope, requirements analysis and business solution design aligned with the strategy for a medium to large sized project or a component(s)/workstream of a large project/programme, typically with a small team.
Key Accountabilities:
- Requirements Elicitation: Leads, designs and facilitates business engagements to establish scope, business needs, project objectives, outcomes and expectations on business processes.
- Requirements Development: Works with business analysis team to ensure that quality business requirements are produced, accepted and approved by the key stakeholder and business solution designs can deliver effectively.
- Requirements Management: Oversees end to end traceability against quality business requirements using appropriate tools and templates.
- Solution Assessment & Validation: Engages with key stakeholders to influence the solution design to meet business goals, scope and strategy requirements. Provides input into the identification and delivery of project benefits, traceability of requirements and impact of solutions. Develops cross business and service user communications, acceptance test plans and supports testing and implementation.
- Consultancy Advice & Domain Knowledge: Develops good knowledge across a number of individual business/product areas, understanding interdependency and the impact of change to provide informed consultancy advice, independent review and quality assurance.
- Structure Approach: Defines the project objectives, scopes overall approach, plans and completes standard Change documentation and tools.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain networks with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence and support the delivery of projects and champions the business analysis function.
- People & Self Development: Manages, motivates and develops assigned team members to create a high performing team.
- Risk: Continuously monitors projects for business analysis risk issues and regulatory compliance and takes appropriate steps to mitigate.
Core Skills
- Experienced track record of successfully leading & directing a team of BA's (c10-15) across a complex, multi division change programme.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, quality focused and ability to work as part of a dynamic leadership team in a fast paced environment.
- Required to carry out 1:1s, providing support and knowledge re the core BA skills.
- Experience of working in a programme environment, a clear understanding of governance processes including a sound understanding of project planning and how this relates to required BA activity.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and experience in communicating both verbally and written with senior stakeholders.