Senior Business Analyst
Posted 1 week ago by The Adecco Group
£100 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Business Analyst role involves eliciting, analyzing, and validating business and user requirements for processes and information systems within the financial services and payments industry. The position requires translating these requirements into functional specifications and ensuring that system changes meet client needs through rigorous testing and documentation. The role also includes mentoring less experienced analysts and training internal employees or clients on new systems and procedures. This position is based in London and operates in a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding.
- Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering equipment capacity and limitations.
- Analyzes business and user needs, documenting requirements and translating them into system specifications.
- Influences business partners regarding priorities and vendor selection.
- Analyzes marketplace and industry trends, identifying improvement opportunities.
- Calculates costs and benefits of alternative actions to establish viability/ROI.
- Re-engineers processes for greater effectiveness and efficiency.
- Documents how applications and systems interact to support business processes.
- Writes test plans and conducts various tests to ensure application integrity.
- Trains internal employees or external clients on changes and new systems.
- Might mentor and guide less experienced Business Systems Analysts.
- Considers business implications of technology applications in the current environment.
Key Skills:
- Knowledge of financial services and payments industry.
- Exposure to regulatory/compliance landscape in payments/financial services.
- Experience as a Business Analyst/Product Owner in a SAFE Agile environment.
- Proficiency with tools like Jira/Rally.
- Knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles.
- Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines.
Salary (Rate): £100.00/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Business Analyst - London (Hybrid) - 6 months - £700 inside
JOB SUMMARY: Business industry professionals who elicit, analyze, communicate and validate business/user requirements for processes, policies and information systems. Translate these business needs/end-user requirements into functional specifications that describe what the system, process or product/service must do to fulfill the end-user/business requirements.
GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Formulates and defines system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements.
- Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering computer equipment capacity and limitations, operation time, and form of desired results.
- Includes analysis of business and user needs, documentation of requirements, and translation into proper system requirement specifications.
- Influences business partners and service providers regarding priorities, hardware/software selection and/or vendor selection.
- Analyzes marketplace, industry, company, technology trends and best practices, vendor products and services, etc.
- Identifies and documents business strategies, objectives and drivers.
- Analyzes and documents business processes and metrics, and identifies improvement opportunities.
- Calculates/estimates costs and benefits of alternative actions or solutions to establish their viability/ROI.
- Re-engineers processes to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency.
- Identifies/documents how applications and systems interact to support business processes.
- Assesses, applies and projects the impact of system changes on users and internal and external clients or stakeholders.
- Uses knowledge of systems and industry requirements to develop or modify complex information systems.
- Writes test plans and test cases to ensure changes which are made to the application meet client needs and that application integrity is maintained.
- Conducts a variety of tests such as system, integration, readiness, and acceptance tests. Ensures that the changes made by programmers are correct. Conducts tests using client data to be certain client needs will be met. Verifies through testing that changes made by programmers to one part of the application do not impact other parts. Reports and reviews testing results.
- Trains internal employees or external clients on changes, new systems or new procedures. Conducts one-on-one or classroom training depending upon the size or desire of the audience.
- May mentor, guide, advise and or check the work of less experienced Business Systems Analysts.
- Considers the business implications of the application of technology to the current business environment.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- Knowledge of financial services /Payments industry
- Exposure to Regulatory/compliance landscape in Payments/Financial services
- Proficiency and working experience as a Business Analyst/Product owner in a SAFE Agile environment.
- Experience working with Tools like Jira/Rally
- Knowledge of end-to-end systems development life cycles (i.e., waterfall, iterative and other modern approaches to software development)
- Proficiency in solutions design and requirements definition disciplines leveraging model driven design-based tools and techniques including conceptual solution component models, business process models, use cases, etc.
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