Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Duration of the Assignment: 6 Months InsideIR35 contract
Location: Windsor, UK Hybrid 1 Day/week
Job Purpose and primary objectives:
Senior Business Analyst
Key responsibilities:
• 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 Centrica 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 mobilized projects to ensure that their scope / shape is well enough understood to start Business Analysis work
Key Skills/Knowledge:
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
Experience required:
6+ years of relevant Business Analyst experience
Experience working as an Individual contributor
Experience of Agile Processes
Energy Industry exposure will be an advantage.
Person Specification:
Client Facing, Excellent communication, Co-ordination, and multiple vendor engagement