Business Analyst

This is a 12 month FTC to implement a Contract Lifecycle Management system for Legal. Engage a variety of business stakeholder to understand their current business process and requirements. To distil this information into a set of key prioritised feature requirements and value adding processes. To then use this information to implement the new technical solutions against. In this role, you will use a variety of elicitation, communication, and analysis techniques to gain a strong relationship with the stakeholders and achieve sign-off of the to-be model based on business need and priority.

Responsibilities

• The main activities of the role will be:

• Planning project activities and managing progress reporting
• Running workshops and observing users in action
• Determining the present and future business processes
• Facilitating the discussion of requirements among stakeholders and documenting requirements to provide data driven recommendations.
• Gathering intelligence from managers and operational staff to bring the true business needs to light.
• Gaining consensus of the real needs and map this to existing technology and tool support highlighting gaps and opportunities
• Analysis of data and how it is used by the stakeholders.
• Create a backlog or prioritised requirements from which to develop and test against
• Setting a shared vision and objectives and presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders

Essential Qualifications

• Previous experience of contract lifecycle management type implementations and able to articulate the role of a legal department and how they work with contracts and queries.
• End to end software development lifecycle experience including project planning and reporting where you were the only BA on the project
• Must be able to work autonomously and be able to perform basic project management activity (plans, progress reporting, communications)
• Business process mapping and process improvements (As-Is and To-Be)
• Use of various elicitation techniques and requirements prioritisation techniques
• Communications and stakeholder management
• Experience of system replacement projects where data migration and continuity of service is critical.
• Basic working knowledge of variety of business applications and how they work to support an organisation.
• An excellent troubleshooting mentality with the ability to visualise a problem or situation and think abstractly to solve it.
• Articulate in both verbal and written communication (to both technical and non-technical audiences), including the ability to produce clear documentation.
• Professional/flexible approach to work; ensuring punctuality, tidiness, and diligence with the aim to provide the customer with the best possible service.
• Ability to work well under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Flexible with the ability to change priorities quickly and the capacity to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Ability to multitask, handle complex problems and conflicting messages to gain consensus.
• Proactive approach to problem solving and service improvement.
• Analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Being detailed oriented whilst looking at the bigger picture and ensuring fit for purpose deliverables.