Business Analyst - Security

My client, a Financial Services client, are looking for a Security Business Analyst, for an initial 6 Month contract.

This role is fully remote, OUTSIDE of IR35 and paying £450 P/D

The Business Analyst will work closely with the Cyber Project Manager and the Head of Security Business Enablement on the business Separation programme.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding of our business strategies. Gain proficiency in underlying product/platform functions and leading technology capabilities
• Develop business acumen to understand core business processes and desired outcomes
• Work directly with the Project Manager & Product owner(s) to gather requirements, business process mapping, functional specifications, security guidelines etc.
• Analysing its completeness from both functional and/or technical perspective after having proper discussions with various responsible stakeholders for the said requirement.
• Creating proper epics, features and user stories (or use cases) with respect to the requirement in hand.
• Reviewing the features/stories with both business and internal project team
• Prioritising the features/user stories across various sprints
• Conducting Backlog Refinement sessions to elaborate the user stories to the project team (development and testing) and working closely with the project team during the development and testing activities of the stories
• Value add during Sprint - Review Sessions to show and tell the work done in the last sprint to the required project/business stakeholders
• Updating/maintaining release documents (such as: release notes, user manuals, BLDs/FLDs etc.) and communication those to required stakeholders
• Getting in touch with end-user to understand their pain-points and resolving their doubts with respect to upcoming features in UAT sessions.
• Following up with dependent business teams to resolve any dependency for the project team with respect to the requirements in hand.
• Understand the data and how business processes function within IT applications. Develop and maintain an understanding of interfacing applications.

Experience

• Multiple end-to-end projects of experience in Information Technology role including experience in Cyber Security and business system analysis
• Knowledge of Requirements Gathering process, creating features and user stories, backlog refinement process
• Knowledge of Business documents (BLDs, FLDs etc.)
• Knowledge of working in Agile methodologies and Scrum team
• Knowledge on SDLC and STLC
• Working knowledge on Microsoft Visio, Word, Excel, Power-point
• Basic knowledge about IT & Cyber Security terminologies
• Basic understanding of security principles gained through experience or in an IT context
• Experience in integrating IT Services with Security services and Operational services eg, SLAs, Operational processes, Vendor relationships.
• Strong written and spoken communication