Business Analyst

My client are a UK based business going through a significant optimisation programme. For the next phase, they are looking to bring in a Business Analyst on an initial 6 month engagement outside IR35 to be the requirement lead for a project to rollout a global time recoding solution. They will be responsible for the full range of business analysis activities. The right candidate will need to be an experienced individual with both a functional and technical understanding of business systems.Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience.

The successful candidate will quickly assimilate the current organisational situation, business processes and supporting applications and play a key role in capturing and analysing enterprise wide business requirements.

Key responsibilities:

• Investigate business systems, taking a holistic view of the situation including examining elements of the organisation structures, business processes and IT systems.
• Evaluate actions to improve the operation of business systems.
• Lead requirements gathering sessions, proactively drawing out requirements with stakeholders from across the group and translating these into requirements definition documentation, including use cases, user stories and functional specifications.
• Complete a gap analysis between current solutions and 'To Be' requirements and formulate options and recommendations for stakeholder approval.
• Support the Programme Team in Business Case production for new projects and initiatives with a focus on benefits and return on investment.
• Carry out post implementation reviews, examine benefits defined in Business Cases and evaluate whether benefits have been achieved.
• Reach out to ensure formal and informal relationships, and very pro-active communications are developed and maintained, both within the programme and between all business stakeholders, to promote an exceptional understanding of goals, timescales, requirements and benefits as well as collaboration and feedback. And the ability to reach consensus.
• Work with offshore teams as required.

Key skills/experience:

• Must have worked on time recording/timesheet systems projects previously
• Must have worked on enterprise wide initiatives
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to gain agreement and move the project forward
• Able to work independently and have gravitas to deal with complex stakeholder group
• Excellent communication skills

If you are interested in the role, please respond to the advert.