Business Process Analyst at GVA Partners

Job Description
The business analyst is expected to perform the following tasks:

• Evaluate business requirements and serve as internal consultant to the business during product and project initiation requiring new or modified applications.
• Identify and/or audit product proposals, business requirements, existing policies and technologies
• Articulate various aspects of the client's business and business drivers to other divisions
• Monitor business process improvement initiatives especially with regards to product development and continually find ways to streamline PPPТs and align them to international best practice.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver functional requirements and business requirements documentation.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.

Requirements
The Business Analyst is expected to have the following educational qualification and experience:

• First Degree in Computer Science or related with at least 3-5 years work experience
• Minimum of 3 years working in a Banking environment
• Proven experience in solution delivery within a complex environment
• Extensive experience in gathering and documenting systems and products requirements for information technology environments
• Ability to thoroughly think out and evaluate alternatives, innovative problem resolution, pro-active approach and initiative to resolve problems
• Ability to work with little direction and supervision, timely completion of projects, makes time for unplanned assignments, adapts to changing priorities
• Strong communication skills with the ability to relate to diverse groups of internal and external clients to include vendors, consultants, designers and developers