FILLED (ref DB6124) Business Analyst, Financial Services

Interim Business Analyst,
Financial Services

6 months, London Based,
£400 per day, ASAP start
Role Summary

Our client is a Financial Services organization looking for a Business Analyst to work on their Regulatory Programmes.  The main purpose of this role is to understand, analyse and document the changes needed to business processes and systems in support of the new policies/regulations.

It is likely that the successful candidate will have a good understanding of UML and Use Case Modeling as these are used extensively by the client.
Deadline for response: 9 am Friday 21st September.

Job Role and Responsibilities

The business analyst will work as part of a large BA team in the IS Business Analysis Function, reporting to a team manager. Key responsibilities include:

* Developing a deep understanding of the business, in order to add value in developing relevant solutions

* Building strong working relationships between the business unit(s)stakeholders, 3rd party suppliers and IT in order to define, agree and document a set of business requirements to be used to drive delivery of process change and/or system solutions.

* Working as the conduit between IS and the business, ensuring that business requirements are clearing translated into functional requirements

* Taking the business / IS through the full business analysis lifecyle (from facilitating workshops, documenting and validating requirements, gap analysis, TOM, solution identification etc.)

* Working closely with the business and IS teams to ensure that technology solutions are aligned with requirements, and facilitating the adoption of new technologies by users.

Key Skills and Experience

The following criteria are mandatory for this role:

* Highly proficient business analyst, with full lifecyle business analysis experience demonstrating full range of BA skills

* Experience of working in Financial Services on large, complex programmes or working in a similar regulated environments in a BA capacity

* Strong stakeholder management skills, excellent written and verbal communications, solution-focused individual

Working knowledge of RUP/UML and experience of delivering Use Case documentation is highly desirable.