Senior Business Analyst - Greater Manchester
Oliver James have partnered with a leading organisation who currently have a number of transformation projects underway and are currently looking for a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst.
Your main responsibility will be to translate both IT and operational requirements within a fast-paced business, with the goal of delivering end to end solutions which are robust and efficient.
Responsibilities as a Senior BA:
- Ability to collaboratively work with the wider delivery team such as Project Managers, IT teams and internal stakeholders to understand business strategies, risks and impacts; ensuring shared awareness and understanding across project teams
- Engaging with clients to understand and model "as-is" and "to-be" business processes
- Identifying and documenting business requirements
- Defining IT system requirements for internal development in the form of User Stories
- Researching possible 3rd party technology solutions where applicable
- Liaising with key stakeholders to agree and drive priorities
- Driving User and Operational Testing activities to ensure smooth implementation and transition
- Developing and maintaining active documentation to support knowledge sharing
Skills/Qualifications Required:
- Strong analytical background with a proven track record of developing robust business cases with supporting cost / benefit analysis.
- Experience leading business analysis, on large or complex projects & programmes
- Experience of business process modelling and levelling methods
- Proven ability to deliver business solutions for programmes / projects, balancing time, cost and quality.
- Strong ability to work with all levels of stakeholders
- Excellent written, numerical and presentation skills.
- Lean Six Sigma Qualified
- ISEB or BSC qualified
- BPMN
