Lead Business Analyst - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Pontoon

Pontoon

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Lead Business Analyst

Duration: 9 months, extensions likely

Location:
Edinburgh (1-2 days in office)

Pay Rate:
Circa £500 inside IR35
We are happy to be recruiting for one of our high-profile banking clients based in Edinburgh.

They are currently looking for a Lead Business Analyst within the Cash Management and Payments Platform team specifically supporting a Regulatory driven change, ona 9-month contract based from home, with one to two days per week requirement in the Edinburgh office.

Key Accountabilities:

A dynamic and adaptable individual able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances
Welldeveloped interpersonal skills
Strong communication skills
The ability to support the shaping of new initiatives in a requirement led way.
Influence positively demonstrating similar values and behaviour to our Group's and encouraging this in team members.
Strong analytical thinking and a problem solver
Ability to understand and translate complex problems (often without requiring guidance), and deliver & communicate simple solutions for the customer
The ability to facilitate efficient & effective decision making, validate designs & solutions and ensure all parties feel understood and satisfied with your outputs
Experience (preferred) of working within an agile project team, contributing to the delivery through ownership of specific tasks
Support the Project Manager to understand business problems, critically evaluating business ideas from a customer and a commercial point of view. Identify underlying business needs to be addressed, challenge existing practices and ensure requirements willaddress the defined business problem.
Help to define scope and elicit requirements; write User Stories and Acceptance Criteria, challenge business stakeholders to drive out the real business outcomes that are required to realise the customer and business propositions; not simply recording requirements.
Identifies shortcomings in existing processes, systems, and procedures, then uses established change management programmes to deliver prescribed outcomes and/or provide support services.
Coordinates end to end traceability against quality business requirements using appropriate tools and templates.
Engages with key stakeholders to influence the solution design to meet business goals, scope, and strategy requirements for the purpose of optimizing business results. Provides input into the identification and delivery of project benefits, traceabilityof requirements and impact of solutions.
Maintain internal and external networks to source data and information to enable timely recommendations and advice.

About You:

You will seek out and consider the voice of the customer when defining the scope and business needs and objectives.
You will possess core strengths in agile development methods and tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira, and Confluence, ideally with experience of being part of an agile team.
A flexible approach, open to learning new skills.
And ensure we are focusing on 'doing the right thing' and 'making things better'.

So, what can we offer you in return?

We deeply value diversity and are proudly committed to being an equal opportunity employer. If this, is you, come and join our inclusive, valuesled culture passionate about making a difference
Our continued dedication to Helping Britain Prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.

Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you will continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

TO APPLY - PLEASE REPLY WITH AN UP-TO-DATE CV
Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.