Business Analyst - Edinburgh - Life and Pensions/Financial Experience
Salary - £26,000 - £30,000
We are looking for a Business Analyst to join our Transformation & Change team in Edinburgh. You should have a knack for analysing business requirements, assessing the impact of change, investigating options, developing and recommending potential solutions to support business change delivery.
Your Responsibilities:
- Work with business stakeholders to ensure documented business requirements and implementations are accurately translated into solution options (and system requirements).
- Apply appropriate analytical methods and techniques, to shape and define business solutions (e.g. processes and operational changes), documenting them in accordance with agreed format and quality standards
- Interpret legislative and regulatory requirements and/or changes in order to assess the wider impact on business processes and system solutions
- Consult with the business stakeholders to understand and evaluate the impacts of change, documenting as is/to be process models
- Consult with the business and strategic partners to identify, understand and challenge business issues and problems in order to explore underlying causes and recommend appropriate solutions or courses of action
- Document & articulate the impact of proposed solutions on benefits, costs and risks, in order to inform project and business decisions
- Support business acceptance testing activities, contributing to production Testing Strategy/Plans and providing an escalation point for queries and issues arising from the Testing team
Your Competencies and Past Experience:
- A systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving.
- Business knowledge - Broad awareness of the Financial Services industry and the regulatory environment, specifically within a Life & Pensions environment, as well as a solid understanding of our systems, products and customer base
- Strong interpersonal skills and confidence to select and apply relevant analytical and process engineering tools
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders at all levels
- Exceptional attention to detail, good fact finding skills and ability to make evaluative judgements based on both quantitative and qualitative information
- Able to use different techniques to elicit and capture business requirements, understanding which are best suited to a particular need
- Understands financial considerations and potential financial impacts of requirements and solutions options
- General understanding of project methodologies and approaches.
- Some experience in business analysis and information/data presentation techniques, including the standard MS software applications and Visio, would be an advantage
Guidant is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
