Senior Business Analyst

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Are you a passionate, committed and enthusiastic Business Analyst who wants to work for one of the largest software and solutions businesses in the UK? Advanced is looking for a Business Analyst, working on our latest financial solution.

We are looking for a talented Senior Business Analyst who wants to contribute and delivery an exciting roadmap.

This role will act as the point of authority for technical product design decisions, responsible for the quality of the business solution in the targeted market sectors. The person in this role will identify the needs, build the roadmap and prioritise the backlog with the Product Owner.

This role works closely with the Product Owner, R&D team and with the customer base.

The role requires a high level of customer and market focus in relation to technical and non-functional requirements, commercial awareness, an ability to prioritise tasks and good communication skills.

The successful candidate must be able to effectively input to product development activities within an agile development framework, rapidly assimilate information and translate complex requirements into business solutions. They will also have good presentation skills in order to be able to effectively demonstrate product features.

What you will be doing

• Responding to emerging roadmap and market requirements and identifying logical solutions to meet those requirements
• Responsible for the quality of the solution (in terms of its business applicability) and the successful production of a release candidate version of the software
• Participate in the GTM process – ensuring releases are successfully launched to market
• Act as the “product expert” both internally + externally
• Working closely with the Product Owner and engineering team to create, manage and maintain a Backlog in JIRA, including User Stories and Acceptance criteria
• Working closely with software development teams in an Agile environment to define priorities and manage issues to successful conclusion
• Managing the release of new product features, working closely with Agile development teams to ensure timely release to high levels of quality and producing detailed release plans
• Production of product specifications and release notes
• Work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to:
  
  
  • Create clearly defined requirements through rigorous investigation, analysis and review in order to define and clearly document business and user requirements
  • Visit customers and market representatives/events to create, review, and challenge solution requirements
  • Carry out fit and gap analysis of requirements vs. products to understand if standard products meet user needs or identify key opportunities through areas of product improvement
  • Define and communicate logical solutions to meet market and customer requirements

• Work with Agile engineering teams to produce proof of concept solutions where required
• Understand and resolve complex technical, strategic and business issues
• Attend customer briefings and presentations
• Work with developers to monitor code changes for quality and impact on future roadmap items to reduce potential bugs
• Actively contribute to the definition of the future roadmap of the product
• Work with engineering teams to improve velocity through advising on code sharing to reduce coding times, validating estimates, reviewing velocity and sprint overflow and feeding back improvements via retrospectives
• Work with engineering teams to detail non-functional requirements
• Identify integration points between products and detail these for the engineering teams
  

What you will have

• An ability to influence others regardless of position/seniority
• An analytical approach to problem solving
• Strong customer facing skills with the ability to represent the company in a confident and professional manner
• Work collaboratively with developers to achieve team delivery objectives
• Manage and prioritise workload including the ability to work to targets and tight timescales
• Deliver high quality documentation
• Support and contribute to departmental objectives
• Make decisions under pressure
• Organised and proactive with strong attention to detail
• Strong experience as a software engineer particularly around toolchain and integration of products
• Experience of using Agile methodologies
  

Experience of the following would also be beneficial, but is not essential:

Financial sector knowledge

Understanding of accounting and financial management software