IT Project Performance/Functional Point Analyst - Bank, Brussels

BACKGROUND:
Brussels based international bank.  To support the Application Development team's objectives of delivering key projects on time, scope, quality and costs, reducing the bank's costs etc., the Function Point Analysis (FPA) team is providing Management with assessments on the projects' performance and software development productivity trends.

TASKS:
To pursue these objectives, the FPA team has acquired a specific expertise:
Function Points technique (market recognized certification) to size software projects. The team also uses a series of indicators to provide internal Managers (Application Development, Roadmap Managers, Project Leaders) with benchmark-able measures. Those measures contribute to a better understanding of the main drivers affecting projects performance and ultimately help Management to act on them.

You will be member of this FPA team and will act as guardian and promoter of the Function Point analysis and project performance measures, best practices, workflows, processes, discipline and techniques.

In that context and as a first step, you will be trained in a software sizing technique (Function Point counting) and apply it using project design documentation.

You will progressively be involved in the project performance analysis - collecting project information liaising with the different project stakeholders such as the project leader and designers and will issue the post-launch productivity benchmark report', a key milestone of the post-launch project evaluation process.

As the software measuring field is far from static, you will be looking into other measuring techniques like SNAP (Software Non-functional Assessment Process) to complement our Function Point sizing.
You will aid in researching market trends on the KPI's (key performance indicators) that Management wants to follow.

On top of this, you will be part of FPA team projects, continuously improving the team expertise, upgrading the bank's internal tools and processes.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
experience in project development as designer;
experience in applying Datamodelling techniques;
software sizing techniques;
you should like manipulating, analysing figure-based data, and are able to interpret them and to formulate conclusions;
MS-Excel, MS Access, Project Management tools
Awareness of continuous improvement;
You should have some knowledge in Function Point counting' or other sizing techniques.

Language: English essential and some French would be a plus

You must be an EU citizen to apply for this role.