IT Business Analyst

IT Business Analyst – Banking Client – Brussels

Duration: 9 months + extension

Rate: 500 – 700 per day (dependant on experience in line with the spec)

Hybrid – you must be able to be onsite 4 days in a month

The Mission

The Product & Subscription squad is looking for a Business Analyst

• Develops effective relationships with business units, divisions or groups of users
• Ensures required business services are identified, developed and supported to the satisfaction of the business unit/division
• Establishes domain specific business knowledge and acts as the main point of contact for business support
• Acts as a liaison between IT development and design and the business units for the development and implementation of new systems and enhancement of existing systems
• Evaluates new applications against business functional and non-functional requirements
• Evaluates new initiatives and evolving business requirements, and recommends appropriate alternatives and/or enhancements to current business solutions and systems
• Prepares communications and makes business presentations on business solutions and system enhancements and/or alternatives

Role

• Based on high level business requirements, contributes/complements to deliver new systems or modification to existing systems through the process of business analysis
• Questions and challenges the needs of the internal and/or externals clients with the Transversal domain BA, Transversal PO and PO
• Identifies, describes and validates business solutions to meet end-users requirements

Documents business requirements in a structured form

Detailed Business Requirements (DBR)> that can be translated into functional and technical specifications.

• Produces Business Analysis, Business Impact Analysis
• Describes business process
• Supports Product Owner in Product Backlog Items (PBIs) writing and prioritisation
• Clarifies PBI until ready
• Considers non-functional requirements such as computer equipment capacity, security, auditability and limitations, operating time, and form of desired results.
• Considers the implications of the existing application technology (Pega, Angular, noSQL, SQL, API…) to the current business change.
• Will analyse the impacts of the delivery on internal teams and external clients. And will participate in documenting the operational changes (SOP…)
• Assists in determining which business requirements can and should be automated and how these automated functions are integrated into the rest of the business and IT processes.
• Facilitates communication between business and IT communities
• Incumbents are specialist of the business analysis techniques and methodologies. They give advice on an incidental basis. (will contribute to the BA community of practices, sharing own knowledge/experience on business analysis techniques and methodologies)
• Validates solution/functional designs derived from own business analysis.
• Will provide support to the preparation and execution of the testing phases of projects / maintenances and during the production roll-out phase, including the warranty

Technical Skills:

• Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline with IT focus degree
• Experienced in working with Agile methodologies; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
• Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, Elicitation and Collaboration, Requirements Life Cycle Management, Strategy Analysis, Requirements Analysis
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles and practices and capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge.
• Preferred experience within large sized Agile implementations
• Proven expertise in defining Acceptance Criteria for Epics, Features, User stories and PBI’s
• A good understanding of the capital market, the bond issuance and pre-issuance multi-parties workflow, settlement and custody activities and an understanding of the underlying business risks

– SQL knowledge with ability to build queries using joins needed

– Experience Functional and Automation Testing would be a real asset

– Ability to read code would be a plus

Soft Skills:

– Strong communication & Interpersonal Skills, Problem Solving, Analytical & Critical Thinking, Public speaking, Listening Skills, Influencing Skills, Time Management

– Negotiation skills also required. Demonstrated ability to influence team and key stakeholders

– Excellent documentation and presentation skills

– Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve, and improve software development processes

– Autonomous, eager to learn on her/his own (build own business network, ask questions…)

Please do send across to me the most up to date CV to eobiechefu@welovesalt.com