IT Data Business Analyst

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Company Description

We're Together, proud to be a Financial Services success story based in South Manchester.

Lending year-in, year-out for over 45 years' we've grown into one of the finance industry's best-kept secrets.

We play our part to turn challenges into opportunities that make our customers' financial ambitions accessible. We understand that for our business to grow, our people must grow.

Together is a business that is never standing-still and provides an exciting place to work for someone who likes to deliver to a high-standard and is comfortable with change.

The IT Business Analyst will pro-actively communicate and collaborate with the business, project team and stakeholder(s) throughout the project lifecycle identifying business needs and documenting these using the industry standard best practices (Technical and Functional user stories, use cases, UML diagrams) so that they can be developed by IT solutions providers.

Salary up to £40,000 (depending on experience) plus bonus and benefits.

Job Description

Securitisation project. 12 Month FTC

Job Description

The IT Business Analyst will pro-actively communicate and collaborate with the business, project team and stakeholder(s) throughout the project lifecycle identifying business needs and documenting these using the industry standard best practices (Technical and Functional user stories, use cases, UML diagrams) so that they can be developed by IT solutions providers.

Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to the Project Working Group to ensure that the correct business requirements are captured in line with the project objectives.
• Work with the Solution Architect to ensure that they are able to accurately estimate the business case.
• Create functional and technical user stories aligned with the sequence diagrams and technical design.
• Work with the business SME’s to create user stories and ensure that they map back to the business requirements.
• Work with this Solution Architect to ensure they fully understand the scope and functionality of the User Stories to enable them to create the solution design
• Responsible for ensuring that the development team fully understand user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Responsible for writing the acceptance criteria for each user story and ensuring that they are signed off by the business prior to starting development.
• To understand and document complex business rules ensuring that any changes in the future do not impact existing rules/functionality.
• Support prototyping and agile-based design by ensuring the design remains aligned to the agreed requirements.
• Act as Product Owner during the daily stand ups to ensure that any queries raised by the delivery team are resolved in a timely manner throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Responsible for delivery of Show and Share’s with the business during each sprint and capturing outcome and feedback from the business.
• Support UAT ensuring that all bugs are accurately logged, understood and prioritised by the development team.
• Support production releases, conducting post implementation verification to ensure quality of delivery into our production environments.
• Working with various third parties to integrate applications into our core systems.
• Adhere to the Change Delivery Framework.
• Adhere to the IT Change and Operational Standards Policy.
• Provide Application support to all core applications – dealing with any production issues/queries and ensuring that any bugs are logged and prioritised for fixing based on business priority and impact.
  

Essential Skills And Experience

• Ability to plan, design and lead workshops
• Comprehensive understanding of structured business analysis techniques.
• Excellent presentation, written and communication skills.
• Stakeholder management and ability to challenge where appropriate.
• Ability to communicate complex business and technical requirements to delivery team.
• Ability to work as part of a project team.
• Ability to work on multiple projects/programmes of work.
• Highly organized, with a flexible approach to work, and the ability to multi-task effectively and work as part of a project team.
  

Nice To Have Skills And Experience

• Previous experience of working with an off shore IT Delivery model.
• Previous experience of working as a Business Analyst in an Applications delivery team in Financial Services Industry.
• Experience in the UK mortgage market.
• Experience working in an Agile and Waterfall delivery environment.
• ISEB diploma in Business Analysis or working towards it.

Qualifications

Nice To Have Skills And Experience

• Previous experience of working with an off shore IT Delivery model.
• Previous experience of working as a Business Analyst in an Applications delivery team in Financial Services Industry.
• Experience in the UK mortgage market.
• Experience working in an Agile and Waterfall delivery environment.
• ISEB diploma in Business Analysis or working towards it.
  

Additional Information

We offer a range of company benefits, including 25 days holiday which can be flexed up/down, pension, life assurance, critical illness cover, health cash plan, private medical insurance, regular team/individual incentives, travel season ticket loans, Ride to Work scheme, free gym access and local bar/restaurant discounts.

Career development opportunities are excellent and where appropriate we offer sponsorship of relevant qualifications.

Please note that all successful applicants will be subject to a Criminal Records Bureau check, a credit check and a Fraud Prevention database check.