FILLED (ref # DM4198) Business Analyst

Permanent Business Analyst,

Watford Based,
£55,000 Salary plus 20% Bonus plus Benefits.

Role Summary

Our client operates in the retail sector and is expanding with 358 stores currently and 35 stores being added per annum. The business is improving the IT function to remove bottlenecks and increase performance in a number of areas. These include:

* Legacy systems which are fragmented
* Core system replacement which could go to an ERP solution.
* Customer facing EPOS systems being rolled out to stores.
* Web channel and development of multi channel retailing.

To help manage these improvements the company is looking for a business analyst to join a team of 3 other BA's reporting to the Head of Strategic Change, working at their head office in Watford. The successful candidate will be familiar with implementing systems (retail preferred) and will be a pragmatic individual able
to bring structure, rigour and commonality to the business.

Key skills/requirements:

The client is looking for:

Mandatory
* An experienced Business Analyst familiar with Business Case Design, Requirements Gathering, Functional Design, Test Plans and Benefits Review.

Desirable
* Retail experience, used to implementing retail Systems
* Experience of functional retail systems including Buying and Supply Chain, Warehouse, Logistics and Point of Sale.

Role Details :

The activities to be undertaken by the Business analysts include:
* Working with the business developing the business case for new business initiatives.
* Analysing and producing comprehensive and accurate business requirements and performing gap analysis to functional designs.
* Assessing the impact of changes on systems, interfaces, processes and people
* Analysing operating procedures, work flow improvement, organizational changes, introduction of controls and procedures, evaluation of equipment and automation requirements, etc.
* Working with key business stakeholders, other Business Analysts and business users in ensuring that the requirements, risk and cost/benefits of each project are thoroughly explored
* Working alongside the IT technical development and testing teams in defining test scenarios, test acceptance criteria and database design ensuring that the business requirements have been interpreted correctly.
* Developing a thorough understanding of the existing applications and technologies.
* Working with external third party suppliers as required and within the context of a given project.
* Adhering to and promoting the governance process (Prince 2 based).
* Keeping apprised of the latest technical and commercial developments within the IT and retail finance industries