Functional Analyst

Function Description

For its development team working on in-house developed products, my client is actively looking for

a business analyst with IT development background who will be able to:
- Understand and model business requirements related to gas flow management

processes (specifically contracting, and data publishing), this with regards to the existing models and systems.
- Participate in support interventions on (critical) production systems.
- Participate in sorting, prioritizing and sizing the developments required to answer the

requirements.
- Participate in definition of possible points of improvements either for applications or for team operations.
- Produce IT specifications based on the CBD principles and making use of the most

suited modelling tools following the client methodology.
- Assist the developers in producing a quality code, based on the specifications.
- Assist the testing expert in producing test scenarios to be used for system and integration testing.
- Assist the testing expert in executing acceptance tests with end users.

Responsibility
- analyze, understand and document business requirements or problems.
- analyze existing documentation and gather information from within the Project Team and from the business.
- take initiatives for meetings with the business and the team and be responsible for the follow up.
- document business processes using Activity Diagrams
- produce functional system specifications compliant to the Client methodology standards, CBD riented (Component Based Development)
- produce business component interface specifications compliant to the client methodology standards (CBD)
- produce & follow-up test scenarios on a component and system level
- review functional system specifications of peers
- review business component interface specifications of peers

Experiencelistening actively to their needs, asking the right questions and interpreting the answers accurately
- ability to communicate the semantics of formal and precise models to users in a digestible form
- ability to communicate the details of the specifications to developers

Personal Skills
- Ability to work relatively independently and pro actively following the priorities and timing of the project plan, under supervision of the project leader.
- Ability to detect priority conflicts, be able to advise on possible options and discuss solution with stakeholder
- Analytical skills allowing rapid learning of various and new businesses or technical

matters in the context of multi products maintenance.
- Ability to work in a structured way following the procedures of the project (check-in, check-out, time sheet reporting, punctuality)
- Ability to work according to rules, standards and guidelines defined in the architecture
- Good balance between methodological approach and respect for practical constraints.
- Ability to communicate realistic predictions about the analysis work
- Ability to communicate in Dutch (spoken) or French (spoken) and English (written).
- Ability to adapt to the evolving client set of methods and tools.
- Customer, solution and improvement minded
- Team player