Business Analyst (Information Security projects)

Business Analyst (Information Security projects) - Newcastle upon Tyne - ONLY APPLY IF CAN WORK IN THE NORTH EAST - Hybrid - up to £60k - global organisation

You will be an experienced Business Analyst with expertise in 1 or more: Information Technology, Cyber and Information Security and Business Administration.

You will work alongside a global team, project and program managers, project directors and business stakeholders and security professionals to perform detailed requirements gathering and analysis, developing Statements of Work, business cases and assist in defining project scope and success criteria, supporting the Information Security strategy.

Experience

• Extensive demonstrable experience in Business Analysis.
• Requirements Elicitation, Analysis and Documentation
• Process identification, definition and mapping
• Workshop planning and execution
• Creation of UAT (User Acceptance Testing) Scripts

Desirable

• Agile/Scrum methodology experience would be beneficial but is not essential.
• A bachelor's degree in IT or business management would be advantageous but is not essential.
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001 (either qualification or experience)

Duties include:

• Analyse business requirements with users. Determine feasibility, cost/time and resources required, compatibility with existing system(s), potential problem areas, recommending and presenting solutions, and meeting project objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and users to assess the impact of proposed security policies, requirements and guidelines
• Analyse existing business processes and security controls to ensure they are fit for purpose in line with new or proposed security policy
• Leading and facilitating stakeholder collaboration and workshops, driving agreement for Information Security policy, process, requirements, guidelines, and publishing to process estate
• Work with project teams to develop project scope, budget, timeline, resources, risks, and project value.
• Ability to carry out process identification, definition and mapping. Participate in planning and designing business processes, including formulating recommendations to improve and support business activities.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirement workshops, surveys, business process decomposition, epics/user stories, use cases modelling and specification, task and workflow analysis.
• Conduct detailed research in order to translate business requirements into precise, high quality user stories or functional specifications that are clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development teams.
• Identify and validate key business requirements.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams and help deliver solutions that meet the businesses requirements.
• Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to understand business strategies and future initiatives to determine future process and solution needs.
• Develop and execute business communications to internal and external stakeholders. Facilitation of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)