Business Analyst - Financial Services - Senior Consultant / Manager - Dublin
Your key responsibilities
- You will help clients align project outcomes with business strategy by acting as an intermediary between business and technology stakeholders
- Development of robust business cases, supported by strategic analysis frameworks, data analysis and market insights
- Proactively identify opportunities for process improvements and drive their implementation, supported by documented process maps and training programmes
- Collaborate with a diverse range of organisational functions to elicit, analyse, prioritise and document requirements for process or technology enabled change
- Define test scripts aligned with business requirements and coordinate User Acceptance Testing to enable the delivery of fit for purpose solutions
- Evaluate the capabilities of external partner organisations to deliver against business requirements
To qualify for the role you must have
- Proven change delivery experience in Financial Services (across Banking, Insurance or Wealth Management sectors)
- Strong Excel, PowerPoint and Visio skills
- Ability to build and manage relationships across business and technology stakeholders
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty
- Attention to detail and time management skills
Ideally, you'll also have
- Business Analysis qualifications preferable
- Data modelling or analysis experience (incl. SQL) preferable
- Software testing experience preferable
What we look for
- Proficient in the use of requirements engineering techniques (including elicitation, analysis, documentation and validation)
- Proficient in the use of Visio (or equivalent process mapping software) to document as-is and to-be processes, systems or data solutions
- Evidence of market knowledge, including familiarity with the Irish Financial Services sector, emerging technologies and regulatory changes
Skills and attributes for success
Decision Making:
- Proactively identify and engage with key stakeholders from across financial services organisations to ensure comprehensive requirements and critical dependencies are captured
- Ability to analyse and visualise data sets to deliver actionable insights and recommendations
Problem Solving:
- Familiarity with a broad range of analysis frameworks (e.g. Six Sigma, Five Forces, PESTLE) to understand change requirements and align with business strategy
- Ability to document as-is processes, define to-be solutions, and set out a roadmap to deliver sustainable improvements
- Understanding of IT architecture and ability to document target state systems and data solutions
Collaboration:
- Leading interviews and facilitating workshops with a broad range of business and technology stakeholders to gather, analyse, prioritise and document requirements
- Familiarity with project delivery methodologies (including waterfall and agile) and associated roles and responsibilities
- Familiarity with content and requirements management systems (such as SharePoint / JIRA)
Level of Influence:
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills to drive consensus on areas for improvement and solution design
- Ability to hold stakeholders to account against agreed project scope and proactively escalate issues with suggested resolution strategies