Business Analyst

Our client in the Financial sector is looking for a Business Analyst

Minimum Requirements:

Qualifications

• IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification.
• 5 - 8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, and industry exposure.
• Banking Experience:
  • Collections & Recovery
  • Credit & Risk Management
  • Secured & Unsecured Lending
  • Payments
  • Wealth Products experience
  • Product and Client Onboarding.
• Agile experience essential (Not just writing stories in Jira and Confluence)

Responsibilities:

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices.
• Analyze and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPls metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate in defining the proposed solution.
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives and dependencies across projects.
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect.
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesize the data to articulate requirements.
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialization.
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritization, WSJF, and increment planning and drive.
• Analyze/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs.
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies, and enterprise delivery up to senior level.
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners.
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks and issues.
• Guide others on how to effectively use common techniques.