Senior Business Analyst

Summary: The role of Senior Business Analyst involves engaging with diverse stakeholders, particularly in Finance and Commercial sectors, to understand and represent their needs. The analyst will facilitate discussions to capture requirements and ensure alignment across various groups, including Operations and DWP Change Programs. The position requires strong stakeholder management skills and experience in finance/commercial processes, particularly in system migrations. The ideal candidate will also possess technical skills to document requirements and communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain relationships across a diverse stakeholder group.
• Facilitate discussions to capture requirements and broker alignment.
• Lead workshops, interviews, and focus groups to understand business problems.
• Translate business needs into a set of options for future solutions.
• Manage stakeholder relationships and resolve issues and risks appropriately.
• Document and consult on requirements in an easily understood format.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Model business processes to achieve consensus and identify potential improvements.
• Support the production of business cases and cost/benefit analysis for solutions.

Key Skills:

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience in finance/commercial system migrations.
• Familiarity with ERP systems such as Oracle eBusiness Suite or Oracle Fusion.
• Understanding of financial and commercial business processes.
• Ability to lead workshops and interviews.
• Effective communication skills across technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience in documenting requirements clearly.
• Knowledge of business process modeling techniques.
• Ability to produce business cases and cost/benefit analysis.

Salary (Rate): £450.00 Daily

City: Sheffield

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

We are requesting a Senior Business Analyst with strong stakeholder engagement skills and ideally with experience in Finance and Commercial business processes. They will build and maintain relationships across a diverse stakeholder group, including Finance, Commercial, Operations, and DWP Change Programms (eg, Synergy). Understand and represent their needs rather than their wants. Facilitate discussions across the stakeholders to capture requirements and broker alignment across the group.

Preferred Experience:

• Prior involvement in finance/commercial system migrations.
• Familiarity with ERP systems such as Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle Fusion, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of financial and commercial business processes.

The following technical skills, knowledge and experience are required:

• Lead workshops, interviews, focus groups and other techniques to effectively understand the business problems and needs
• Translate the business problem and needs into a set of options for the future solution
• Manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment across business and technical stakeholders. Ensure issues and risks raised are resolved in an appropriate manner.
• Document and consult on requirements in a layout and format that can be easily understood by all stakeholders
• Communicate effectively across both technical and business stakeholders, ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria is aligned.
• Understand business processes and activities that impact and that are impacted by the product or service. Selecting the appropriate best practice techniques to model business processes, existing and new, in order to achieve consensus.
• As part of the modelling process, work to identify potential process improvements, considering risks, issues and benefits.
• Support in the production of business cases and producing cost/benefit analysis for proposed solutions.