Description
Role - Business Analyst
Duration - 6 months
Location - Edinburgh/Bristol
Purpose of the Programme
- To deliver changes and information required by the Department of Work and Pensions new legislation
- Including a charge reduction, commission removal, a new independent governance board and a full book audit
Purpose of the Role
Full project life cycle of multi-workstream Programme with functional changes
Core Skills
- Requirements Elicitation: Manages business engagement to understand, challenge and document underlying business needs, translating these into project scope, objectives and business goals.
- Requirements Development: Designs 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: Defines 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.
- Consultancy Advice & Domain Knowledge: Maintains good knowledge of an individual business/product area and working knowledge of additional business/product areas, providing business analysis insight for ad hoc queries, consulting requests, independent reviews and management of quality assurance activity.
- Structure 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.
- Risk: Owns resolution of business analysis issues, identifying and managing mitigating actions against design risks as directed by the Lead Business Analyst.
Knowledge and Experience
- Pensions Working knowledge of Rational Requirements Composer
- Workshop facilitation
- Team working is critical