Business Analyst

• Core Business Analysis Skills
• Business or technical analysis experience (minimum 5 years) in system implementation projects within financial institutions and/or consulting environments.
• Ability to gather, analyze, document and manage business and functional requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, acting as a bridge between business stakeholders, technology team, and external partners.
• Experience in business process analysis and system/technical analysis.
• Experience in process design or process re-engineering.
• Ability to analyze data structures, interfaces and data flows across systems/applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand business needs and design appropriate solutions.
• Strong documentation skills, including functional specifications, user manuals, training materials, communications, RFPs, business cases and project deliverables.
• Experience in requirements lifecycle management, including requirements traceability, impact assessment, change management and prioritization.
• Experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including development of test plans, test cases and test scripts.

Job Description (JD)

• Acts as the primary liaison or bridge between business stakeholders, technology team and external partners, translating business requirements into a language that Technology can understand.
• Interact with business stakeholders and SMEs to understand their problems and needs, solve business problems and, where required, design technical solutions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define reporting, dashboard and analytical requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Assists the Program/Project Manager in liaising with project workstreams, Technology teams and SMEs where input is required.
• Leads and facilitates stakeholder interviews, workshops and meetings to collect, analyze, validate and document business requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manages and communicates business and functional requirements to ensure solutions meet agreed business needs.
• Maintain requirements traceability across business requirements, functional specifications, testing activities and solution delivery.
• Conduct current-state vs future-state analysis and identify process, system and data gaps to support solution design.
• Performs Business Process Analysis, including analyzing, documenting and improving business processes, and gathering, documenting and analyzing business requirements.
• Performs Systems Analysis, including analyzing functional behavior, user interface (UI), user experience (UX), documenting logical system components and creating functional specifications.
• Analyze data requirements, data flows and integration points across systems to support solution design and reporting requirements.
• Assess business, operational, compliance and regulatory impacts arising from solution changes and new initiatives.
• Produces project deliverables based on documented requirements and SME input.
• Assists in testing activities, including preparation and execution of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), development of test plans, test cases and test scripts.
• Support defect triage, root cause analysis and issue resolution activities during testing and implementation phases.
• Participates in implementation activities and provides post-implementation support to ensure successful adoption and issue resolution.