Business Analyst - Strategic Risk Data Programme

Main Function

To perform Business Analysis and Technical Analysis within Risk to deliver the implementation of the Risk Data Store.

Main Duties

* For each business area, develop a detailed understanding of the upstream and downstream system interfaces, flow & data coverage through each.
* Trace Risk business data requirements back to the upstream sources, identifying gaps & data quality issues.
* Work with upstream System Analysts and to determine the golden sources of data and extent of change required in upstream system to support the implementation.
* Work with downstream System Analysts and Risk Data Store development team to define the changes required in downstream applications.
* Liaise with Risk Business Analysts and Risk teams to understand impact on current processes and define tactical solutions to support the implementation approach
* Extract configurable requirements from Risk and feed into the development team.
* Understand how much of the data is required by each user community (particularly historic data) and define the requirements for data retention
* Define the implementation approach by business area including the transition during go-live and any tactical development required.
* Develop test scenarios, conduct testing, and manage testing by other groups.
* Analyse and UAT issues and assist users / developers with issue resolution.

Support the go-live.

Person Requirements

Qualifications

Minimum 2:1 degree, or equivalent, from a good university

Experience required

* Proven business and functional analysis skills.
* In-depth knowledge of Risk functions.
* Knowledge of the front to back transaction lifecycle.
* Strong client liaison and problem solving skills.
* Authorship of requirements and functional specifications.
* Experience of data modelling and business process modelling.
* Experience of data migration analysis and definition.
* Experience of phased projects and the full development lifecycle.

Experience preferred

* Experience of Risk systems
* Experience of working with offshore teams.
* Experience of rule based systems and familiarity with BPML and BPEL.
* End user support of delivered functionality.

Essential skills

* Excellent analytical and documentation skills.
* Ability to assimilate information quickly and produce thorough and well researched specifications.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Strong negotiation, influencing and facilitation skills and experience of applying these in the requirements gathering process.
* Strong MS Office, Visio and experience of one or more enterprise standard process/data modelling tools.

Preferred skills

* Strong presentation skills.
* Understanding of SQL
* Understanding of Entity relationship diagrams.

Candidate profile

* Excellent Communication skills
* Ability to learn quickly
* Ability to work effectively upon multiple work items at the same time
* Ability to work in a virtual team
* Can demonstrate attention to detail and rigor
* Possess good organisational skills
* Positive team player
* Flexible approach to working hours
* Practical and pragmatic approach to work.To find out more about Real please visit www.realstaffing.com