Business Analyst - Financial Services - Senior Consultant/ Manager

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