Business Analyst

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The overview of the role is to gather requirements, analyse, document and propose solutions for large and/or complex ...

business areas including workflow and functional specifications. To assist in the preparation of user and system test plans.

Key Responsibilities:

To produce functional specifications by liaising with internal personel.

• Finance departments to establish Business Requirements
• Collect, understand, and transmit the business requirements following the MoSCoW methodology for the project or the Request for Service (RS), and translate these into functional specifications and detailed test plans
• Act as the interface and lynch-pin between the business, internal Development Team and third parties dependant on the systems that need to be changed
• Build good working relationships with the internal departments within the company
• Analyse the requirements and ensure that the business implications for all areas have bee considered, challenging the originator as required
• Lead workshops to establish requirements.
• Support the request for service initiator and follow the Request for Service process
• Provide accurate estimates working with the Development team, Infrastructure team and
• Technical Architect.

Ensure work is planned and controlled

• Report progress, on a regular basis, to Business owner / Applications Development and Support Manager
• Highlight exceptions and difficulties to Business owner / Applications Development and Support Manager and escalate where necessary to the Head of Applications
• Dependant on business requirement / size of change act as the IT representative on companywide projects
• Adopt and adhere to change control processes
• Produce weekly status report and provide these to the Applications Development and
• Support Manager for projects/Request for Service work assigned to you
• Ensure that you understand the Release Management process and the global methodologies used as part of the change process and adhere to this

Drive towards continual improvement

• Build a rounded knowledge of the business systems and become a business expert for the company in relation to the way the systems work to suppor the business
• Try to make sure that more use is made of parameter driven solutions rather than developments
• Understand the business process and the impact of change on each of the areas