Lead Business Analyst

For our banking client in Zurich we are looking for a

LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST/REQUIREMENT ENGINEER

Start date: at latest mid November

Duration: minimum 6 months

Location: Zurich

POSITION AND PROJECT INFO:

- Responsibility for the Business Engineering for a banking application
- Leading a team of 10 business engineers
- Achieving a clear understanding of business goals and needs within the context of business processes
- Providing oversight about new requests, dependencies and maintaining the backlog for the program
- Lead pre-studies, offerings, estimates and conceptual work within different business initiatives
- Working closely with business partners and the IT team (eg architects, solution engineers and testers) to ensure common understanding
- Acting as a trusted advisor to our business partners
- Managing stakeholders and establishing effective communication channels with them
- Support and coach team in eliciting, analysing, developing, validating and managing requirements during the whole project life cycle
- Proactively identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes
- Opportunity for a dynamic self-starter to influence and drive the processes in the area of responsibility

REQUESTED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

- Academic degree (Masters, Bachelor) in economics, computer science or similar would be an asset
- At least 10 years proven track record as a Business Engineer within the financial industry, people leadership skills
- Profound theoretical and practical financial know-how (especially wealth management, investment products, portfolio analysis and portfolio risk management)
- Experience using requirements engineering tools and methods (eg Use Case modelling, UML) in an agile environment
- Ability to work with different stakeholders and project roles
- Strong communication skills and proven ability to interact with various internal partners across different seniority levels
- Self-motivated, analytical, flexible and driven personality with the ability to learn
- Excellent English skills; German as an advantage
- Flexibility, leadership and personal excellence with strong conceptual and implementation skills
- Team player with drive and a high degree of customer orientation

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.