Description
Role - Lead Business Analyst
Duration - 10 months
Location - Edinburgh, Cardiff
Responsibilities, Accountabilities and Deliverables
Reporting into the Programme Manager, this resource will complete the scope, requirements analysis and business solution design aligned with the strategy for a large sized programme and a small BA team.
- 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 business outcomes and 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.
Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience
- RETAIL BANKING EXPERIENCE IS MANDATORY
- Recognised Business Analysis Qualification
- Experience of successfully building and delivering Projects £3m+
- Experience in successfully delivering high profile, complex Legal, Regulatory, Mandatory Projects/Programmes
- Experience of successfully managing stakeholder relationships across Business, Divisions and Functional areas
- Experience of large scale customer migrations