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SalaryJob Title: Business Analyst
Location: North Hertfordshire. Flexibility to work from home 2 days a week after initial onboarding period.
Contract Type: 6 Month FTC
Salary: Depending on experience
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Benefits:
- 15% Contributory Pension (10% Employer, 5% Employee)
- 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, which increases with service
- Private Health Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Death in Service Insurance
- Income Protection
- Digital GP 24/7
- Dental Cover
- Health Assessments
- A day off for your birthday
- Generous maternity and paternity benefits
- Paid Carers leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle2work Scheme
- Benefits Hub; large selection of employee discounts, rewards and perks across a number of brands, restaurants, holidays and "away" days.
About our client and the role of Business Analyst
Our client is a fast-growing Challenger Bank in a high growth phase. They currently have an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst to join the Projects team on a 6-month FTC and support the project manager with the delivery of cross-functional change projects.
The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring appropriate project governance is followed through project lifecycle, working with business stakeholders and third-party suppliers to ensure that projects deliver to agreed plans, and assist the business with the documentation of business requirements, project deliverables, and test plans. You will be working with the delivery team and stakeholders to define, document and split features and user stories
Responsibilities for the role of Business Analyst
- Hands-on support for key projects and programmes
- Producing reporting for Projects and Systems Committee
- Ensuring appropriate project governance and controls are in place and followed throughout the project lifecycle
- Identification and management of risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies
- Management of MS Project Plans
- Maintenance of project action logs
- Support business areas as needed with production of business requirements, project deliverables, and test plans
- Liaising with internal and external project stakeholders
- Provide regular updates to the Project Manager
- Understand the business processes and how each system is integrated
Experience and skills required for the role of Business Analyst
- Experienced Business/Project Analyst who has worked on end-to-end project lifecycle - preferably within financial services
- Must have experience in Agile and Waterfall Methodologies.
- Able to prioritise work and to manage across multiple projects
- Proficient in MS Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Excellent analysis skills
- Experience in Risk, Issue, Assumption and Dependence identification and management
- Able to self-motivate and work with limited supervision
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- PMO experience preferred
- Comfortable working in dynamic fast paced environment with ability to multi-task across a number of projects
- Excellent communication, including written, verbal, and strong presentational experience
For more information regarding the role of Business Analyst please contact us.
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Due to a high volume of applications, we will only contact you if your application has been successful. We aim to contact all successful contacts within two business days.
