Agile Business Analysts

An Agile Business Analyst is required by a global Investment Bank to support new project deliveries by the Compliance Information Technology (IT) team for the Employee Compliance program. The team analyses, defines, builds and tests new systems and enhancements, whilst making sure existing systems are well maintained within the program. The program covers licensing and registration, employee trading, outside business interests and employee attestation.

You will be required to understand business requirements and translate these into functional requirements and application changes, ensuring that the development teams deliver on these by validating as part of testing. You will need to transform high-level business goals into low-level requirements to define the scope of a project. You will be responsible for gathering, verifying, analysing and documenting business requirements and for data and systems analysis to support documentation and understanding of the as-is and to-be state. In addition, you will be responsible for gaining client and IT sign-off of requirements documents and specifications by conducting walkthroughs, presentations and formal reviews. You will work closely with the development teams to develop functional specifications and technical designs. You will also need to plan, script, manage and execute acceptance testing – User Acceptance Testing (UAT), with the client performing execution and acceptance testing prior to UAT start. The role will also require you to plan and execute user training on new systems.

You will have strong business analysis experience including process mapping, requirement gathering and documentation, end-user training etc. gained within a Agile environment (banking / financial services preferred but certainly not essential). You will have demonstrable experience of working on large scale, critical business change projects and programmes and / or broad experience in delivering corporate change programmes. A robust working knowledge of Agile methodologies and technologies is essential whilst previous experience of mentoring / supervising more junior BA`s would also be advantageous. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills are also a prerequisite for the role.