We have an exciting new role for an experienced Business Analyst to work as part of Version 1’s Business Applications Solutions Practice.
You will help define and deliver a series of diverse key projects with the team. The roles present a dynamic and challenging opportunity to an experienced Business Analyst who wants to develop a closer alignment to our customer’s core business.
We are seeing unprecedented growth across several of our key practice areas. We are looking for talented individuals, who want a challenging, dynamic work environment with honesty & integrity, excellence, and drive amongst our core values as well as a strong emphasis on our people and a work-life balance.
- Arrange and conduct meetings, workshops and presentations for a variety of audiences, demonstrating consistently high quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills.
- Analyze alternative solutions and make recommendations.
- Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods, and tools
- Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes.
- Perform root cause analysis of problems and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into solution designs and systems specifications.
- Produce detailed Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off prior to development commencement.
- Work closely with developers during the technical design and implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects.
- Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business staff (including senior managers) at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change.
- Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release.
- Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process.
- Where necessary devise detailed cut-over plans to address potential operational impacts at cutover.
- 3rd level Degree in a relevant discipline to the role with minimum 3 years of Business Analysis experience
- Proven track record in producing high-quality Business Requirements Documents, Business Processes Mapping, and documentation skills.
- Experience in reviewing Functional Specification Documents produced by peers (Peer Review) to ensure they align with Business Requirements Specification documents.
- Has worked on both large-scale and smaller projects and been responsible for defining and designing business solutions.
- Previous experience with UML and Use Case Scenarios is an advantage.
- Good project management skills with the ability to plan and schedule own work and work towards tight deadlines.
- MS Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio & Outlook).
Desirable Skills
- Experience working in one of the following sectors:
- Utilities
- Medical Devices
- Pharmaceutical
- Any experience with Global Supply Chain (GSC) of benefit
- Lean Six Sigma
- Agile experience, specifically SCRUM Framework
