Senior Technical Business Analyst
Permanent
18-05-2023
Realtime recruitment are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Business Analyst for a permanent position based in Dublin City Centre. This client is a key player in the financial services space with huge opportunity for growth and progression.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborating closely with business users and department heads to understand issues and identify system and process solutions.
- Proactively identifying organizational impacts resulting from new business processes or system deployments.
- Developing business requirements, functional specifications, test plans, and related documentation to support systems initiatives.
- Coordinating with IT teams and external vendors to determine the most effective approach for delivering the requirements.
- Managing relationships with third-party vendors to ensure project deliverables and addressing day-to-day concerns or issues promptly and satisfactorily.
- Becoming a subject matter expert by maintaining a detailed knowledge base of business operations, processes, data flows, and systems in the supported areas.
- Configuring, enhancing, and maintaining systems within the defined scope, aligning them with business requirements and the product roadmap.
- Providing high-quality support for the designated applications and assisting business teams in investigating queries to achieve satisfactory resolutions or escalating when necessary.
- Drafting comprehensive test scripts and use cases to validate successful changes, collaborating closely with IT teams and business users to design and execute test plans.
- Supporting the business readiness phase of projects by reviewing processes and procedures, creating training materials, scheduling training sessions, facilitating post-implementation reviews, and capturing lessons learned.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience with a proven track record in a technically complex environment.
- Ability to maintain productive relationships with stakeholders at various levels across the organization.
- Strong experience in evaluating and selecting third-party solutions.
- Strong experience in managing third-party solution providers.
- Strong experience in IT project management, playing a key role in successful projects.
- Knowledge of financial markets across front office, back office, HR, and pension systems is advantageous.
- Familiarity with business intelligence tools such as PowerBI/Tableau and proficiency in SQL query skills.
- Project Management certifications (Prince or PMP) are advantageous.