Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

Employment: Contract 12 months

Industry: Banking

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to clearly understand their requirements, scope, pain points, and goals.
• Elicit, document, and validate business and functional requirements through assessments, workshops, interviews, user stories, and process analysis.
• Translate business requirements into detailed, concise, and actionable user stories or specifications for the development team.
• Work closely with developers, QA engineers, UI/UX designers, solution architects, and specialized teams to ensure requirements are clearly understood and implemented correctly.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Support testing activities by helping to define test cases, performing UAT, and validating deliverables meet business expectations.
• Assist in change management and training materials preparation.
• Act as a point of contact between business units and the development team, ensuring consistent alignment, communication, resources, and dependencies.
• Monitor, coordinate and be liaison with client for change request, post-support or maintenance services
• Champion business analysis best practices, often mentoring junior analysts and shaping BA standards
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes.
• Act as a domain expert, often specializing in finance, healthcare, retail, or other verticals.
• Continuously evaluate business processes to recommend improvements or enhancements.
• Propose innovative solutions that blend business strategy with technological capabilities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• At least 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in a software development or Agile environment.
• Proficiency in writing user stories, use cases, and process flows.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Prior experience with banking domain.
• Familiarity with banking functional knowledge including core banking payments, loans, cards, trade finance or other banking applications.
• Hands-on technical knowledge in API integration, SQL interfaces, system workflows, troubleshooting and UAT.
• Exposure to IT Policies and Procedures including change management, SDLC, incident management, IT governance and audit documentation