Senior Business Analyst
- Job Ref: 4854
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- Type: Permanent
Overview
Reports to: Head of Business Analysis
Key responsibilities
- Manage and lead multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments
- Map full business processes and implement solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes
- Gather business requirements from stakeholders and review existing ones to produce detailed business requirement specification documents
- Run workshops using proven techniques for creating detailed business, functional and non-functional requirements
- Assist and lead team contribution and communication to ensure complete requirement coverage
- Apply standards and methodologies. Provide expertise and support on use of methods and tools
- Responsible for needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modelling and/or logical database design with relational databases
- Identify and assess risks to the success of the project
- Agree the project approach with stakeholders, and prepare realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans)
- Track activities against the project schedule and manage stakeholder involvement as appropriate
- Handle training and build competency within the practice
Experience required
- 4 years + Business Analyst experience
- Financial experience/background (2 years+ min – 5 years + preferential)
- Agile preferential
- Process improvement experience an advantage
- Excellent client-facing skills
- People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
- Team work and emotional intelligence
- Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
- Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
- High value on openness and transparency
- Knowledge in business analysis methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments
- Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge
- Proven ability in assuring project meets quality standards by providing guidance and developing procedures relating to product quality
- Experience in applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solve operational problems
- Experience in providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues
- Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Experience of using recommended project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking
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STAMP 4 VISA OR EU CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS ROLE (SPONSORSHIP NOT OFFERED)
Cathay Duffy, IT Recruitment Consultant - Your e-Frontiers consultant for this job
Cathal is a member of the Software & Business Technology Team, mainly specialising in hiring Business Analysts, Project Managers and Product Managers for small to medium sized Irish companies to global leaders in the technology sector. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons), from the National University of Ireland, Galway specialising in Human Resources (HR).
Specialises in: Business Analysts, Project Managers, Agile
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