Beschreibung
Senior Business Analyst - Germany (local candidates)
Responsibilities:
- Rapidly attaining a deep and broad understanding of the mission, direction, structure, mandates and requirements of relevant business areas and building trust and managing relationships with business stakeholders.
- Expert analysis, modelling and documentation of client business processes and business requirements, adhering to analysis methodology agreed with the client, considering implementation constraints where required and, where not, avoiding unnecessary assumptions regarding implementation
- Analysis and documentation of conceptual data models, logical data models, and data dictionaries.
- Business process optimisation and transformation spanning different client's departments and business domains.
- Provision of support and advice regarding functional requirements to members of own team and other teams (including Business stakeholders, Project Managers, Solution Architects, Designers, Developers, and Testers).
- Contributing to preparation of Test Plans and Functional Test Cases.
- Review of Design for consistency with functional requirements.
- Maintenance of analysis deliverables during design, development and test.
- Analysis, documentation, recommendation/negotiation of solution options and prioritisation of system defects and functional enhancements to existing systems.
- Assists to achieve project deadlines and schedules through active management of scope, business expectations priorities.
- Reporting progress and status to Project Managers.
- Preparing documentation for technical and non-technical audiences, for deployment on intranet / extranet / internet sites and on-line help.
- Adhering to a recognised System Development methodology.
- Participating in User Acceptance Testing.
Essential Skills
- A minimum of seven years of broad-based experience in business analysis focussing upon IT systems, with significant experience in the relevant functional area(s).
- Must have strong analysis & investigation skills.
- Must be a self-starter who can own and drive the collection of complete, correct, deliverable functional requirements and business processes, rather than just ask questions.
- Must be a team player, experienced in working with others to achieve an objective.
- Must be able to lead a team of Business Analysts, when required, showing ownership and responsibility for the team’s deliverables.
- Ability to create, tailor and adhere to methodology standards.
- Expert knowledge of data analysis and conceptual / logical data modelling.
- Expert knowledge of a recognised System Development Life Cycle such as RUP, including traditional, iterative and rapid and agile development methodologies.
- Good understanding of internet and client/server architectures.
- Possesses working knowledge of HTML, SQL, and database design.
- Capable of acting as the face of IT, developing relationships and fostering trust with business users.
- Good verbal and written communication skills in the English language.
- Must be project-oriented, customer-focussed and responsive, with a professional manner.
Additional Skills
- Experience in performing user acceptance testing and/or leading user acceptance testing exercises.
- Experience in document management
- Experience in business process management
- Experience working in diverse, multicultural organisations.
If you are interested, please send your CV to: or call to discuss further on: