Financial Business Analyst

SUMMARY:
We are looking for a Business Analyst with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a Business Analysis role of which a minimum of 3 years must be in the financial services industry, long term insurance, investments, wealth management, healthcare administration or employee benefits. Any technical skills will be an added benefit.

POSITION INFO:
Pre-Sales Analysis/ Product Support

• Work with the relevant Delivery manager and Client to elicit accurate and comprehensive product roadmap/backlog requirements
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  Work with the relevant Delivery manager and Project Manager to analyze client requirements to determine scope and effort in support of the client commercial engagement
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  Complete modelling, including providing Product Manager with input to business case; and
  Do product demonstrations and provide sales support.

• Work closely with external and internal stakeholders to analyze their objectives and clarify the stakeholder needs or problem/opportunity statement
• Undertake stakeholder and competitor analysis
• Ability to undertake requirements review, validation and to develop user stories
• Ability to apply the relevant data analysis technique – whether in business, software or information level
• Facilitate requirements, analysis/discovery sessions and design workshops to discover information related to the process or requirements from business stakeholders
• Work with Deliver Manager, Client and developers to elicit accurate and comprehensive functional and non-functional requirements from project stakeholders
• Analyze and translate business requirements from clients into business requirements specifications that are used by architects, developers, and testers to build and test a software solution
• Participate in the planning and prioritization of project scope requirements with stakeholders
• Map customer requirements to existing system functionality and identify any gaps
• Examine existing and/or create new business processes including understanding data flows;
  Prepare user stories and prototype mock-ups for new services and enhancements
• Identify and clarify constraints and work closely with external and internal stakeholders to design and implement the best possible solution within these constraints
• Create functional requirements specifications.
• Requirements management through proven traceability matrices and models

• Translate business requirements to functional and non-functional requirements for the Development Team
• Create and update feature documentation in support of client UAT as well as Production deployments.

• Assist the tester(s) – as required – with the translation of the business requirements documentation into the relevant test scenarios and test cases and the review of these test plans
• Promote the quality of delivery by validating and verifying that the delivered functionality meets the requirements – during internal testing (prior to UAT)
• Assist with the validation and prioritization of test results and defect resolution
• As required, assist client with the creation of UAT test plans
• As required, provide sign-off a feature after delivery on behalf of the Product team.

• Develop training materials and deliver training to relevant user community (internal and/or external stakeholders)
• Develop and/or assist with review of User Guides.

• Participate in Post Implementation Review sessions.

• Develop, implement, and manage analysis methodology (templates, processes, standards) and provide leadership and support to other Business Analysts and team members.
• Soft Skills you should have:
  
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Stakeholder engagement and management
  • Strong communication Skills
  • Negotiating and Influencing Skills
  • Conflict Management
  • Motivated and self-driven
  • Results driven
  • Analytical Aptitude
  • Customer Focused
  • Logical&Critical Thinking
  • Detail Driven
  • Process Orientated
  • Applied learning
  • Quality orientation
  • Verbal and written communication skills
  • Facilitation skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Self-managing – pro-active and dependency aware
  • Ability to clarify and resolve ambiguity
  • Ability to understand technical concepts
  CaseTools experience required
  
  • Visio/Bizagi/Aris
  • Invision/FIGMA
  • JIRA
  • Confluence
  • Azure Devops
  Business Analysis skills
  
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Requirements Elicitation
  • Requirements Management
  • Business Case documents
  • Business Requirements Specification
  • Functional Specification
  • Business Process Modelling
  • QA Testing
  • UAT Testing
  • Solution Architecture Overview
  • Wireframes
  • User Interfaces
  • Integration/System Configuration
  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • Critical thinking
  • Design thinking

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