Lead Business Analyst - Retail Banking - Payments Change

ROLE - Lead Business Analyst

DURATION - 6 months

LOCATION - Birmingham

PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAMME

Specific delivery portfolio within payments change

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

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Requirements Elicitation: Leads, designs and facilitates business engagements to establish scope, business needs, project objectives, outcomes and expectations on business processes.
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Requirements Development: Works with business areas and stakeholders to ensure that quality business requirements are produced, accepted and approved by the key stakeholder and business solution designs can deliver effectively.
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Requirements Management: Oversees end to end traceability against quality business requirements using appropriate tools and templates.
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Solution Assessment & Validation: Engages with key stakeholders to influence the solution design to meet business goals, scope and strategy requirements. Provides input into the identification and delivery of project benefits, traceability of requirements and impact of solutions. Develops cross business and service user communications, acceptance test plans and supports testing and implementation.
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Consultancy Advice & Domain Knowledge: Develops good knowledge across a number of individual business/product areas, understanding interdependency and the impact of change to provide informed consultancy advice, independent review and quality assurance.
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Structure Approach: Defines the workstream/project objectives, scopes overall approach, plans and completes standard Change documentation and tools.
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Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain networks with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence and support delivery
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People & Self Development: Manages, motivates and develops assigned team members to create a high performing team.
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Risk: Continuously monitors projects for business analysis risk issues and regulatory compliance and takes appropriate steps to mitigate.

CORE SKILLS

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Excellent time management
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Excellent MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook knowledge
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Ability to prioritise workload
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Proactive and extremely well organised
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Ability to work with a wide and diverse range of stakeholders
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Strong diary management skills as this is a fast moving office
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Previous experience in electronic payments systems
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Strategic Thinking
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Background in working in financial payments and understanding of electronic payment systems

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Previous experiences as a 'Lead' BA
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Some element of travelling will be required on a regular basis.