Belfast - Senior Business Analyst

You will join our high performance team of Business Analysts and act as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or co-ordinating an area within Business Analysis. You will have the opportunity to oversee technical areas within Business Analysis projects using available frameworks, tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on-budget project goals.

• Manage and coordinate multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments
• Map full business processes and implement solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes
• Gather business requirements from stakeholders and review existing ones to produce detailed business requirement specification documents
• Run workshops using proven techniques for creating detailed business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Assist and supervise team contribution and communication to ensure complete requirement coverage
• Responsible for needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modelling and/or logical database design with relational databases
• Identify and assess risks to the success of the project
• Agree the project approach with stakeholders, and prepare realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans)
• Track activities against the project schedule and manage stakeholder involvement as appropriate
• Handle training and build competency within the practice

• Relevant third level qualification or equivalent work experience

Desirable

• Management qualification or relevant years of experience
• Additional course or certification in Business Analysis

• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• High value on openness and transparency

• Experience working with Target Operating Models
• Strong process mapping experience
• Knowledge in business analysis methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge
• Proven ability in assuring project meets quality standards by providing guidance and developing procedures relating to product quality
• Experience in providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues
• Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Experience of using recommended project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and a substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help our you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and set backs.
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects .
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses.
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship (unless stated otherwise in the job description).

Applicants should note Expleo NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.