Fatca Business Analyst - Banking - Yorkshire

We have a requirement for a number of business analysts to join a leading retail bank based in Yorkshire. The focus of the project is on business enablement activity required to comply with tax legislation in response to a global trend which has seen countries world wide entering into agreements to combat tax avoidance by individuals or entities who deposit funds in foreign financial institutions.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

- Requirements Elicitation: Manages business engagement to understand, challenge and document underlying business needs, translating these into project scope, objectives and business goals.
- Requirements Development: Designs and facilitates business need workshops to analyse, define and prioritise requirements, challenging thinking and agreeing outcomes to ensure robust requirements development and approval.
- Requirements Management: Defines and manages the documentation of business requirements (including requirements catalogues and traceability matrices) and prepares business case underpinning solution options.
- Solution Assessment & Validation: Understands and articulates the effect of proposed solutions, creating accurate and detailed as-is and to-be business models incorporating process and benefit analysis, people and customer impact assessment. Develops cross business and service user acceptance plans and communications to support implementation.
- Consultancy Advice & Domain Knowledge: Maintains good knowledge of an individual business/product area and working knowledge of additional business/product areas, providing business analysis insight for ad hoc queries, consulting requests, independent reviews and management of quality assurance activity.
- Structure Approach: Defines business analysis approach, applies project best practice throughout the life cycle with supporting documentation and tools, promoting equivalent behaviour across the team.
- Stakeholder Management: Engages a variety of stakeholders across priority business/product areas, owning and gathering specification input, delivering high quality work and maintaining relationships post project close.
- People & Self Development: Builds and maintains effective working and influencing relationship with appropriate colleagues to share knowledge and best practice. Takes responsibility for self development and that of any direct reports, actively seeking and providing feedback and responding accordingly.
- Risk: Owns resolution of business analysis issues, identifying and managing mitigating actions against design risks as directed by the Lead Business Analyst.

RATE: £340 per day

LOCATION: Yorkshire

START: Mid April 2014

DURATION: 6 months+

If you have a regulatory background and would like to be considered for this role please submit your CV. Rory