Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

You will be involved in Project Start up by

·         Participating in and facilitating workshops as part of project initiation.

·         Collaborate with clients to gather and understand requirements.

·         Capturing requirements in an unambiguous way to aid the development process.

·         Complete analysis of requirements and complete an assessment of how requirements can be achieved.

·         Create and maintain epics and user stories in Jira in line with PSL standards.

·         Collaborate with the development team in order to identify options and propose alternative solutions to meet client business requirements.

·         Manage client expectations.

·         Facilitate and organise the estimation process, working with the delivery team to produce ballpark, order of magnitude and more detailed formal estimates as applicable.

·         Document business requirements and functionality gaps in a Business Requirements Document.

·         Document functional requirements in a Functional Specification

·         Create wire frame mock ups, process flows, swim lane diagrams etc to support requirements analysis.

You will be an integral part of Delivery Team

·         Collaborate with the Project Manager to provide the Delivery Team with a refined and prioritised back log of user stories.

·         Pair with developers and testers to elaborate on requirements during the delivery phase.

·         Validate and confirm requirements are fulfilled before release to client UAT.

·         Document client release notes.

·         Management of change requests.

·         Work with the Technical author to update the User Guide.

·         Deliver client training

·         Facilitate a showcase as a method of ensuring requirements are met and to identify any future business needs.

·         Work with clients through the UAT phase to triage and clarify queries or defects.

·         Work with senior members of the PSL Team – PM’s, Functional Leads, Directors, SME’s

·         Support post live ‘warranty’ phase.

·         Communicate releases to PSL support team before go live.

You will actively seek opportunities for improvement

·         Keep up to date with industry sector developments

·         Actively seek improvements to processes and systems, contributing to our culture of continuous improvement.

You must have the following Experience

·         Experience of business transformation or change management.

·         Demonstrable experience as a business analyst using standard based methodologies such as Waterfall or Agile.

·         Experience of authoring high quality functional documentation.

·         Experience of contributing to technical documentation.

·         Working within a development team and alongside other BA’s.

·         Knowledge of development of IT applications or understanding of technology driven projects.

·         Financial lending services experience either within a financial service company or a supplier to the industry.

·         Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

·         Good working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project).

The following are considered to be desirable

·         Atlassian toolset exposure (Jira / Confluence)

·         BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or ISEB Diploma in       Business Analysis

To apply for this job please send your CV to careers@phoebussoftware.com or, if you have a LinkedIn account, click on the button.