Senior Business Analyst

• Support the Demand Management Process through initial gathering of ideas through to scoping and creation of business cases

• Overseeing the entire requirements process, including scoping, elicitation, documentation, and sign-off

• Input into Supplier Selection process as needed

• Ensuring best practices and standards are followed throughout the project

• Acting as an intermediary between various stakeholders, such as Project Sponsors, Directors, Business Leads and End-Users

• Facilitating communication to ensure business goals align with technical capabilities

• Assessing operational effectiveness and developing strategies to improve efficiency

• Using market trends and financial analysis to identify opportunities for improvement

• Collaborating with Development and Quality Assurance/User Acceptance Testing (QA/UAT) teams to ensure requirements are met

• Managing traceability matrix to understand scope of delivery vs original requirement and managing expectations with PM where misalignment identified

• Ensuring deliverables are reviewed and approved appropriately

• Supports impact assessment of newly mobilised projects to ensure that their scope / shape is well enough understood to start Business Analysis work

• 6+ years experience as a Business Analyst

• Understanding of key business processes and alignment to these from a technology perspective.

• Experienced in communicating to non-technical audiences.

• Possesses strong oral and written communications skills

• Thoughtful, methodical, pragmatic, disciplined and analytical yet agile and efficient.

• Insight and understanding of architecture and integration techniques for the assembly and federation of both internal and external IT Solutions

• Proficiency in business analysis tools and methods (e.g. ADO, Visio, Process Mapping, Workshop facilitation)

• Proactively identifies analysis that needs to be done, and share plans / timelines with stakeholders

• Experience with Finance Projects, Finance processes, Core accounting, Journal Mgmt, High Volume Transaction Matching, Balance sheet reconciliation

• Experience with Blackline / Trintec solutions

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to take ownership of challenges and drive to conclusion

• Good commercial acumen and business finance and accounting knowledge

• Analytical thinker with the ability to present meaningful data to a wide range of business and IS audiences

• Awareness of energy industry and technology trends

• 6+ years of relevant Business Analyst experience

• Experience working as an Individual contributor

• Experience of Agile Processes

• Energy Industry exposure will be an advantage.

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