Description
Contract Business Analyst: Investments, Derivatives, Trading - South East of Scotland
Contract Business Analyst Opportunity has become available to join a growing business based in the South East of Scotland. The demand for change management is huge and the delivery of the change agenda is crucial to the company's commercial success. The business has several new product developments currently underway and is actively establishing new distribution channels. The Change Team provides a range of project services and works in partnership with the Technology Team. You will play a key role during the early stages of new change initiative as well as providing analysis capabilities during the main delivery stage of a project. The intention is to develop a centre of excellence in the field of analysis.
Role Purpose: -
*Providing analysis, research and thought leadership pieces that helps shape the thinking of key business stakeholders
*Operating model analysis and design, that contributes to the shaping of parts of the business
*Business process level definition and design - to help improve the performance specific business processes and practices
*The articulation of business problems, business requirements and potential business solutions at a detailed level
*Commissioned pieces of analysis work, connected to new change initiatives as they come on to the Change Portfolio are completed ensuring problem, requirements and possible solutions are made clear. This analysis may be at the Front End of a project or during the main delivery phases
*Business processes defined - the ideal process and the target process, aim to get to at the end of a specific project
*Change initiative moved from the early idea/problem statement stages towards commitment and delivery
*Outputs delivered to an agreed specification (Statement of Work)
*Working in collaboration with the Portfolio Manager, Programme or Project Manager, new work moved from the idea/problem statement to phase to the completion of a business case
*Multiple formal documents prepared in line with the agreed analysis process and where appropriate explain the costs and benefit profile
*A range of tools and analysis techniques utilised to collate, analyse and make sense of data
*Very strong relationships built with business experts and stakeholders with a real focus on the day to day operational practices in order to developer deep business knowledge
*Time spent in business teams, observing, clarifying and examining business processes in order to translate business issues into clear problem statements
*Desk based reading and research conducted to build knowledge of industry practices, challenges and changes company their way. This may include producing a number of research papers that consolidate information gathered into bite size papers for wide dissemination
*Relationships built with key suppliers of services, software vendors and consultants to build a wide awareness of the industry, typical problems and the typical solutions
*Subject matter expertise and deep business knowledge developed which enables participation in the shaping of the business architecture
Experience: -
*Excellent experience of business analysis
*Relevant experience within an Investment Management Company
*Experience of working alongside other professional business analysts, project managers, IT professionals and other change management experts on major change projects
*Experience of working on IT projects as well as non IT projects
*Experience must include having sole responsibility for the delivery of business cases, requirements documents and other typical BA outputs
Core Skills: -
*Interviewing skills, data capture and analysis to produce insights into the problem and potential solutions
*Statistical and data analysis skills
*Process modelling and design, Six Sigma and Lean skills
*Writing Business Cases
*Appraising projects financially
*Business modelling and diagramming for the purpose of explaining complex issues
*Highly developed PowerPoint and presentation skills
*Extracting and defining clear business requirements for projects involving technology
*Systems analysis techniques
*Writing Effective Use Cases
*Preparing RFI's and RFP for Software Vendors
*Assessing the merits of 3rd party software vendors
*Preparing test plans and managing the UAT process
*The preparation of training and support materials to support the project implementation phase