We are looking for new Senior Business Analyst to join our expanding team. If you are looking to work with a high calibre team, we want to hear from you.
Project Foundry has substantially grown its portfolio of clients across the finance and technology, telecoms, and aviation sectors. We bring a fresh and creative approach to Project Management; this approach resonates with existing and potential clients.
Our culture is founded on 5 Key Pillars- Excellence in Delivery, Accountability and Ownership, Communication and Collaboration, Innovation and Community, and Connecting our Business, and we deliver this through a one-team approach. We continuously promote diversity, collaboration, and innovation. If you are interested in building something special and want the opportunity to work with a like-minded team, we here at
The Project Foundry
want to work with you.
Our ideal colleague will be self-directed, highly motivated, and comfortable working in an extremely fast-paced environment. Flexibility and adaptability are key attributes needed for success. Candidates should also have strong business analysis and coordination skills to handle a variety of activities and complexities.
Plan
· Proactively communicate and collaborate with all stakeholders to elicit and analyse requirements, deconstruct high-level information, understand low-level information, and deliver the appropriate artefacts.
· Develop business analysis communication and requirements management plans, participate in and potentially lead planning meetings and work with project managers to define the business analysis tasks for a project.
· Assess capability gaps, identify relationships and dependencies between new and existing systems and evaluate proposed solutions.
· Collaborating with business partners and project team members to efficiently write requirements and implement projects.
· Review enhancement requests, bugs and data changes.
· Analyse business processes and requirements and transfer the knowledge to the development and test team.
Execute
· Act as a liaison and negotiator between the business community and the IT organisation and manage client expectations effectively.
· Work with developers, analysts and consultants during the development and implementation phases to ensure that acceptability criteria are being met and to manage scope creep and change requests.
· Communicate effectively with the business, the development and test team to understand functional requirements (e.g. screen, interface, report, GUI designs), and to ensure the solution meets these.
· Review and evaluate delivered solutions to assess whether expected benefits are being achieved.
· Work closely within the IT Team, engaging with Project Managers, fellow Business Analysts, Solution Architects, and developers.
Deliver
· Ability to facilitate alignment of technology and business strategy, to create a phenomenal customer experience by proactive partnering at all business levels.
· High quality artefacts such as process maps, business requirement documents etc.
· Manage any change requests related to the working project plans to meet the agreed deadlines.
· Investigate data discrepancies and perform ad-hoc database queries as needed.
· Mentor and coach junior BAs
Sound good? What do you need?
· 3+ years as a Business Analyst in a fast-paced organisation working on multiple projects.
· Strong technical and analytical skills required understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
· Dynamics365 / Business Central / Azure DevOps / PowerBI experience is hugely desirable
· Experience of working in a large delivery programme a distinct advantage
· Very good organisational skills, logical and efficient thinking, and strong attention to detail.
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of stakeholders, including senior executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
· Adept at using negotiation, facilitation, and presentation techniques to build consensus, and skilled at communicating difficult and sensitive information tactfully.
· Good practical knowledge and experience of data manipulation for use in report software, spreadsheets, graphs, and flow charts.
· Good knowledge and experience of the Microsoft Office Suite, including Visio.
· Well-developed process flow designing skills.
· Knowledge of project management and business analysis methodologies and tools.
· Qualification or certification in a relevant discipline.