Senior Business Analyst

Role

Abacus are recruiting on behalf of a fast-growing consultancy firm as they look to hire a Senior Business Analyst to join the team. Our client is a dynamic and innovative international firm of Financial Services experts delivering impactful programs with speed. Their horizontal management structure encourages a culture of growth, learning, and diversity, where all ideas are welcome. They put their successful growth down to strategic partnerships, innovative technology, and collaborative culture. You’ll be joining a firm where they encourage high-potential individuals by providing strong mentoring, stretch opportunities, and funding for development. 

Duties

• You will be an expert in one or more areas of Finance, Data, IT, Quality Assurance within the funds/Insurance/Banking/Regulatory.
• Manage and lead teams on projects and work with other areas of the consulting business to deliver high quality client services.
• You will be responsible to the delivery of IT/ Change/ Data/ Quality Assurance projects through methodologies such as as Agile, Scrum/ Kanban and traditional waterfall when required, leveraging your domain knowledge and sector experience.
• You will create high quality work products and act as a subject matter expert on one or more services to advise our clients how to achieve their project objectives.
• Take responsibility for the mobilisation of delivery projects and dependencies bring them to realisation within agreed timelines.
• Help form teams to bring projects from initial scope, providing advice on requirements to final realisation.
• Ability to identify and assess risk, to communicate and adapt accordingly.

Person Specification

• Experience as a Senior BA of the full project lifecycle from initial concept to implementation
• Experience of running workshops with key stakeholders to identify, understand and document detailed business requirements for IT solutions and/or business process change.
• Facilitate requirement gathering.
• Able to clearly articulate complex ideas and requirements in concise language (written and verbal)
• Understand and document business requirements and propose solutions.
• Analyse complex issues, understand business challenges and drive As IS & To Be process design in order to deliver solutions that align to current and future business needs.
• Be capable of reviewing data underlying business processes.
• Capable of working through complex issues to find suitable customer focused solutions.
• Ability to build strong relationships with teams and key stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with a diverse team evaluating all ideas and proposed solution and bringing into alignment a change initiative involving multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of Agile Methodology – User Stories, Scrum, Kanban, Sprints etc and the role of a BA in an Agile Environment

Why this role?

Market leading salary

Development training (funded)

Bonus

Hybrid

Next Steps:
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