Requirements Elicitation: Leading complex requirement gathering sessions with multiple
– stakeholders to capture detailed business needs.
– Process Modelling and Improvement: Creating process models of moderate to high complexity to
– visualise current and future business processes. Identifying inefficiencies in business processes and recommending improvements to enhance productivity and efficiency.
– Documentation: Developing comprehensive and often complex documentation, including business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, and user stories.
– Stakeholder Management: Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs are met and expectations managed.
– Coordinating and leading client meetings and acting as a primary contact for the client for major components of a solution.
– Solution Design: Designing and validating high-level functional solutions that meet business requirements, address feasibility issues, align with technical constraints and comply with the project framework (concepts, standards, user experience, etc.).
Skills: – Business Analysis: Expertise in advanced business analysis techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
– Requirements Elicitation and Analysis: Skilled in eliciting, analysing, managing and documenting business needs and complex requirements.
– Process Modelling and Improvement: High degree of proficiency in business process modelling. Good understanding of process improvement and optimisation strategies and methodologies.
– Methodologies: In-depth working knowledge of delivery principles and methodologies such as agile and waterfall.
– Solution Design: Proficiency in developing comprehensive and scalable business solutions.
– Stakeholder Management: Advanced skills in managing relationships with key stakeholders and ensuring their needs are met.
– Documentation: Highly proficient in creating detailed documentation for the full range of business analysis activities, including business cases, process flows, and functional specifications.
– Communication: Strong verbal and written communication. · Strategic Planning: Knowledge of strategic planning and decision-making processes.
– Project Leadership: Knowledge of project management principles, including leading requirement-gathering sessions and managing project timelines.
– Testing and Validation: Good understanding of testing, proficiency in developing test plans and conducting testing.
– Quality Assurance: Knowledge of quality assurance principles and practices. · Customer Service: Detailed understanding of customer service principles and the importance of providing high-quality support and training to end-users.
– Risk Management: Understanding of risk management strategies to identify and mitigate risks.
– Security Procedures: Understanding of security procedures to ensure the protection of data and systems.
– Compliance: In-depth understanding of organisational standards and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance.
– Continuous Improvement: Commitment to staying updated with industry trends and best practices.
Attributes/qualities
– Good level of written and oral communication · Appetite for business challenge · Ability to work with minimal supervision
Essential Skills
- The Senior business Analyst will have sound knowledge of the latest analysis tools and techniques and their application within past and present Sopra Steria engagements
- Demonstrable experience of working as a Senior business Analyst on large or complex programmes/ projects.
- Has business analysis skills that are solution independent and transferable to many business scenarios
- Be adaptable to working with client’s preferred requirement management tools and methodologies.
- Sound knowledge of the latest developments and future strategy for their area and contributes to the development of the strategy for their area.
- Sound knowledge and experience of associated tools, techniques and methods within their specialist area.
- Commercial sector knowledge
Reasonable Adjustments:
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