Description
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst who combines strong data literacy, business and data architecture awareness and process re-engineering expertise with a proven track record of delivering complex change within large financial services organisations.
The ideal candidate will be comfortable navigating a SAFe delivery environment, working across multiple Agile teams and stakeholder groups to translate strategic objectives into sustainable business outcomes. They will be equally adept at analysing data, redesigning processes, shaping requirements, influencing senior stakeholders and partnering with architecture and engineering teams to deliver enterprise-scale transformation.
Responsibilities
- Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
- Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
- Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
- Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
- Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
- Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
- Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
- Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
Vice President Expectations
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
Requirements
- Proven Business Analysis experience delivering large-scale business and technology transformation programmes within complex, highly regulated financial services organisations.
- Strong experience working within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment, including Programme Increment (PI) planning, backlog refinement, feature definition, dependency management and cross-functional delivery.
- Strong understanding of data management, data architecture, governance, lineage, metadata and regulatory data requirements.
- Experience leading business process redesign, target operating model development and organisational change initiatives.
- Ability to engage effectively with business and technical stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership, architects, engineers and data professionals.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management capabilities, with the ability to use data to identify issues, generate insights and support decision-making.
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence, Visio, MS Project and Microsoft Office applications.