Business Analyst

• Providing guidance and support to project team members and working with internal stakeholders to ensure solution build continues to meet requirements
• Leading on/participating in all client workshops/presentations to understand internal and external client project goals, configuration requirements, workflows, complex business needs, gaps and opportunities
• Providing and validating cost estimates based on knowledge provided in the Solution Definition Document
• Reviewing and monitoring Business Analyst estimates during the project lifecycle, escalating increases where necessary
• Assisting the Business Consultants and Project Manager in the construction of the scope and approach to the project
• Leading on requirements elicitation process on projects – planning the strategy for investigating and translating functional and non-functional requirements, taking into account the complexities of the project and the constraints involved
• Validating, baselining and prioritising requirements through the approval and sign off by the client and accountable executive, challenging assumptions where necessary
• Producing Use Cases and Process maps to ensure the overall solution meets business needs
• Ensuring that there is clear requirements traceability through the lifecycle of the project
• Managing the change process through the project lifecycle
• Identifying gaps in current products or solutions, and providing such input / feedback to the Product Management team to assist in the production and on-going maintenance of product roadmaps
• Contributing to risk / issue logs, project status documents, scope change documents, mapping specification, test plans and test cases
• Providing a handover of the project to Business Analysts working on Business As Usual change
• Leading on/supporting initiatives for improvements, working with the Lead and / or Senior Business Analyst to establish, implement and continually improve processes