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Business Analyst

  • Business Analyst

    • Belfast, UK
    • Full-time
    • Department: Digital Development & Architecture

    Company Description

    We pledge "to prove IT can make a real difference to our customer's businesses". We work hard to ensure we understand what our customers need from their technology solutions and then we deliver.

    We are an award-winning company who provide world class customer service; we think big and we hire great people. Version 1 are more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies.

    Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you.

    Job Description

    You will help define and deliver a series of diverse key projects with the team. The roles present a dynamic and challenging opportunity to an experienced Business Analyst who wants to develop a closer alignment to our customer’s core business.

    We are seeing unprecedented growth across several of our key practice areas. We are looking for talented individuals, who want a challenging, dynamic workplace environment with honesty & integrity, excellence and drive amongst our core values as well as a strong emphasis on our people and a work life balance.

    • Arrange and conduct meetings, workshops and presentations for a variety of audiences, demonstrating consistently high quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills.
    • Analyse alternative solutions and make recommendations.
    • Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods and tools
    • Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes.
    • Perform root cause analysis of problems and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into solution designs and systems specifications.
    • Produce detailed Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off prior to development commencement.
    • Work closely with developers during the technical design and implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects.
    • Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business staff (including senior managers) at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change.
    • Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release.
    • Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process.
    • Where necessary devise detailed cut over plans to address potential operational impacts at cutover.

     

    Qualifications

     

    • Strong Business Analysis experience.
    • Proven track record in producing high quality Business Requirements Documents, Business Processes Mapping and documentation skills.
    • Experience of reviewing Functional Specification Documents produced by peers (Peer Review) to ensure they align with Business Requirements Specification document.
    • Has worked on both large scale and smaller projects and been responsible for defining and designing business solutions.
    • Previous experience with UML and Use Case Scenarios an advantage.
    • An understanding of technology and IT systems.
    • Good project management skill with ability to plan and schedule own work and work towards tight deadlines.
    • Excellent communication skills — be able to explain complicated processes and concepts to non-experts.
    • MS Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio & Outlook).