Senior Business Analyst (Resource / Vendor / Costing) recruitment
Position Description:
AGS on behalf of RBS represents contract and temporary opportunities for RBS MIB (Markets and International Banking). We have an outstanding contract opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst to make their mark with one of the world's largest international banking and financial services companies. In the role of a Senior Business Analyst, you will play an integral role in helping our client deliver market leading services that set it apart from its competitors.
This particular programme will reduce costs and improve overall cost management, through a combination of tooling, governance and process change. The programme will enable us to accurately manage and report our headcount profile in line with the books and records, plan tactical or strategic scenarios, and optimise our cost architecture to ensure accurate and efficient cost management.
Projects within the programme include Resource Desk, Cost Efficiency, Cost Architecture and RM Tools and Process.
As well as a motivated individual, we are seeking someone with a specific skill set to join our department as a Senior Business Analyst on the 'X' Programme, Tools and Process project team.
***** The person required for this role will specific experience in vendor management, cost management within Technology / Operations and preferabley organisational change. The first 2 are MANDATORY so please bear this in mind when applying. We would also favour general experience within HR / Skills management domain including competency / skill frameworks and management. Experience in the development of MI with emphasis on cost and resource reporting would also be required*****
Additional Position Details:
Key duties and responsibilities of the role include:
Definition and documentation of business requirements gathering around all aspects of the project
finition and documentation of business requirements gathering around all aspects of the project
- Running of workshops and feedback collation
- Some PMO responsibilities such as creating project plans
- Business process modelling
- Compilation of a Business Manager Handbook that will incorporate all aspect of the project relevant to the Business Manager Community
- Assisting the Project manager with compilation of project artefacts
- Management of RAID logs and Action lists
Must have skills, techniques and qualifications required for the role:
Business Analyst Skills
- Business Analysis planning and monitoring - Ability to assess the complexity of the brief, identify stakeholders, identify and manage risks and issues, and develop an appropriate approach and work plan that incorporates success criteria and key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Enterprise Analysis - Ability to identify business needs and opportunities for improvement via detailed analysis and understanding of overall business and systems structure, op models, strategy, flows, processes, and inter-relationships.
- Requirements Gathering and Analysis
- Through usage of techniques such as process modelling, use cases etc, obtain, capture, validate and document business requirements to ensure completeness, relevance, and accuracy.
- Ensure requirements are prioritised and support business goals, standards, strategic themes and external factors such as relevant legislation.
- Requirements Management - Managing change control process over requirements, and ensure requirements can be traced to business case and implemented solution.
- Ensuring stakeholders understand and agree overall requirements
- Business Case Development - Ability to identify and define capabilities of project deliverables, and provide justification for investment outlay through techniques such as performance and benefits measurements analysis.
- Post Implementation Activities- Ability to identify, plan, and take ownership of post implementation support activities and contribute to post implementation reviews.
Project Skills
- Project Roles - Understanding of project roles and key responsibilities attached to each, and how they relate to the role of the Business Analyst
- Project Lifecycle - Understanding of key phases of project lifecycle, as well as overall objectives and deliverables of each phase.
- Risk and Issues - Ability to identify risk and issue items associated with the project and manage to resolution where applicable
- Relationships Management - Identifying and managing key stakeholder relationships such as those with the sponsor, and cross functional relationships with Group, HR, etc.
- Project Management - Awareness of key project administration requirements such as project plans, budgets, risk and issues logs, status reports and their inter-relationship on each other.
Business Analysis Tools and Techniques
- Working knowledge of common techniques, tools, and languages used for enterprise analysis and business modelling such as but not limited to: BPMN, UML, SSADM, MS Project and Visio.
Allegis Group Services is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
