Summary

Operating primarily during the Feasibility and Definition phases of the project lifecycle, the Business Analyst acts as a consultation partner between the Business and IT to ensure that all requirements and business impacts are comprehensively documented and clearly understood by other project performers as well as other areas of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Eliciting and prioritising Business Requirements in consultation with the customer and all relevant stakeholders up to and including the sponsor
• Developing System Requirements to a level of detail from which High Level and Detailed Designs can be created
• Documenting and maintaining Business and System Requirements
• Conducting formal and informal reviews of both Business Requirements and System Requirements documents
• Creating appropriate Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTM) and maintaining those elements of RTMs which relate to Business and System Requirements
• Participating as required in other phases of the SDM lifecycle, including carrying out updates to requirements documents arising from defects found in the Design and Construction phases
• Contributing to formal and informal reviews conducted by other project stakeholders
• Assisting the Project Manager in the following tasks:
• creating and refining project estimates
• ensuring business process impacts are identified and that together with the systems requirements the totality of the Business Requirements are met
• completing Business Continuity Management Assessments
• completing Business Impact Assessments
• Project Planning
• Support selecting software and Application Service Providers (ASPs)

Requirements

• At least 3 years’ experience of Business Analysis techniques and processes
• Good knowledge of Solutions Delivery processes
• Good knowledge of technical infrastructure and its interdependencies
• Good knowledge of application infrastructure and its interdependencies
• Strong knowledge of core business processes
• Demonstrates good interpersonal skills, and is comfortable at all levels of contact and in a wide variety of situations including external vendors
• Possesses a high level of presentation skills with the ability to adapt to all levels of audience
• Creation/knowledge of corporate data models and the warehouse
• Data Transfer
• Awareness of SLA and OLA management
• Ability to assume authority – to enable the influencing of higher tiers
• Strong negotiation skills
• Good communication skills