Description
Role - Data Business Analyst
Location - Coventry
Required:
- High Level understanding and working knowledge of the products and services used within a Building Society (Mortgages, Savings, Current Accounts, Payments & Cash Management, Covered Bonds, etc)
- Good understanding of Operations, Risk and Finance procedures used within the Financial Services Industry
- Significant experience working on complex Management Information (MI) Transformation Programmes, including corporate data mapping (from Legacy platforms)
- Experience of working on large complex business and IT transformation/change programmes
- Experience working on data projects, such as customer migration/data conversions, data cleansing, with the associated detailed business analysis skills to support these
- Experience of working with a Data Warehouse
- Ability to assess complex issues and risks and translate them into clear action plans for resolution
- Good interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to communicate persuasively with front-line staff
- Good stakeholder management skills with ability to question and challenge, put forward new ideas and gain buy in through key working relationships
- Willingness to ask questions and challenge where appropriate and delivering potentially challenging messages back to the front-line
- Excellent attention to detail
- Some experience in one or more of the following technologies:
- IBM CDC/CDD; Netezza PureData; SAS Analytics; MS-Access
- Cognos, Crystal Reporting; Business Objects
Ability to use the following systems (Required):
- Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint software packages
- Business Mapping processes software such as Microsoft Visio
- Strong Excel skills
Key activities that the candidate should have experience of, will include:
- Working with Business representatives and stakeholders to identify and document:
- Understand prioritisation of report delivery and identify reports that are no longer required
- Support production of business requirement specifications for Business Change and IT
- Build a high level Entity Relationship diagram, capturing key attributes for the data
- Assist in the testing of the new reporting environment and associated MI & Reporting Packs
- Engage end users and coordinate activities around User Acceptance Testing
- Help the business with the definition and development of their new reports
- Help the business with the implementation of their data quality rules, business rule and models
- Support the definition of the necessary governance and Operating Model (including the necessary security) to support successful report delivery.
- Existing MI reports
- Report structures
- Data sources
- Supporting business rules, aggregations and derivations
- Distribution and retention
- Security classification of the data.