Senior BA recruitment

JOB DESCRIPTION

NAME:
DEPARTMENT: Operations Reconciliations
JOB TITLE: Senior Business Analyst – Pulse Programme

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

A business analyst is engaged to define business improvement opportunities by analysing all components of the business operating model and ensuring that the overall client requirements are agreed and syndicated before, during and after the overall Business Solution Design of the Project is developed.

Accountabilities
• Ensuring Business Client requirements and benefits are clearly articulated, syndicated and integrated within the project or delivery plan
• Ensuring that the testing and quality approach adopted by the project will demonstrate that the business requirement s have been delivered

Responsibilities:
• Managing the analysis of business operating model components and identification of improvement opportunities
• Defining ‘as is’ and target ‘to be’ states
• Deriving, quantifying and documenting benefits of the ‘to be’ state
• Managing the delivery of business owned components of the overall Business Solution Design
• Developing the overall testing strategy, approach and test pack
• Managing specific work packages within the project

Detailed Responsibilities and Competencies

Managing the analysis of business operating model components and identification of improvement opportunities
• Performing analysis of business operating model components including booking entity structure, business processes, data architecture and application architecture
• Identifying improvement opportunities through review of all operating model components and facilitation of workshops with Business and IT Subject Matter Experts
• Eliciting problems, benefits, the impact assessment, determining priorities
• Planning for requirements capture meetings and workshops using appropriate analysis approaches and standard deliverables
• Challenging requirements, ensuring that requirements are not stated as solutions
• Engaging with business and technical staff to understand system problems, characteristics, non functional constraints

Defining ‘as is’ and target ‘to be’ states
• Confirming scope and constraints of analysis and articulating impact to business benefit
• Supporting the definition of overriding architectural principles
• Managing analysis and design processes required to build ‘as is’ and target ‘to be’ states
• Classifying and grouping requirements
• Developing product features and solutions
• Exploring alternative solutions, features and scenarios
• Developing business prototypes to support analysis
• Agreeing documentation standards, tools and approach
• Managing documentation of ‘as is’ and target ‘to be’ states

Deriving, quantifying and documenting benefits of the ‘to be’ state
• Deriving clear, quantified benefits of migrating to the ‘to be’ target state
• Documenting pre-requisites for benefit realisation
• Performing sensitivity and ‘what if’ scenario analysis on benefits
• Supporting the production of the overall project or programme level business case

Managing the delivery of business owned components of the overall Business Solution Design
• Developing the business owned components of the overall Business Solution Design e.g. business process, organisational design, data usage, legal entities, functional and technical specifications
• Working closely with IT colleagues and business stakeholders to deliver an overall appropriate fit-for-purpose business solution design
• Managing business sign-off of Business Solution Design

Developing the overall testing strategy, approach and test pack
• Developing overall functional, regression, performance and user acceptance testing strategy and approach
• Manage definition of user acceptance criteria and sign-off
• Planning and scheduling testing activity
• Defining test environment requirements
• Developing test packs and data
• Managing and reporting on testing progress and completeness (coverage and % of test cases executed successfully)

Managing specific work packages within the project
• Ensuring that allocated work package is delivered to the targets (cost, time, scope, quality) agreed with Project or Programme Manager
• Managing and resolving work package level risk and issues
• Managing all stakeholders throughout project lifecycle

SUPERVISION DUTIES:

None

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED:

Business Solution Design
• Has extensive knowledge and experience of leading Business Solution Design approaches and leveraging best practices (including process improvement and design approaches) to understand the flow of activities in F-2-B programmes and projects
Project Management
• Has good understanding of the role and responsibilities of Project Managers and all other roles involved in the project lifecycle
• Has good understanding of project processes, methods, procedures, techniques, concepts and best practice
• Has good understanding of project risk management processes and best practice
• Has understanding and appreciation of the need to plan and manage projects through the benefits they deliver
• Understands the approaches to be used in managing dependencies inside and outside the project
Programme Management
• Has basic level understanding of programme and project risk management processes and best practices
• Has knowledge of programme management processes, methods and procedures
Investment Banking Domain Experience
• Experienced working within the Investment Banking industry
Change Management
• Has basic knowledge of change management processes, methods and procedures
HR, Legal and Compliance
• Has knowledge of all relevant HR, legal and compliance policies
IT Development Architecture
• Has sufficient knowledge of IT development and delivery practices and approaches
• Has knowledge of the means by which architectural decisions are made and the architecture is controlled
Quality Assurance
• Has a good understanding of quality assurance principles, methods and tools at the project level
• Has a good understanding of existing policies, initiatives and procedures relating to operational quality assurance
• Has knowledge of risk control techniques related to data mgmt, SOX system based controls, CMMi and process design
• Has experience of implementing Quality Management Systems

Formal Education, Training and Qualifications

Assumes Business Analyst education, training and qualifications have been completed.

Technical Change Skills
• Introduction to Project Management
• Process Analysis Approaches, Techniques and Tools
o Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
o Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
• Structured Business Analysis
• Introduction to Software Development Lifecyles
• Operating Models and Shared Service Centre Creation
• Business Writing, Storyboarding and Presentation
Management Skills
• Leadership and Personal Development
• Management Development Modules
• Personal Impact and Assertiveness
• Business Writing
• Presentation Skills
Products and Markets
• CBT Refreshers
Qualifications
• Lean Six Sigma Accreditation

REQUIRED REGISTRATIONS:

None

POSITION WITHIN HIERARCHY:

Reports to Regional Head of Operations Change Management, EMEA