Business Analyst

Description

Business Analyst 
Slough, Berkshire 
FTC
 

As part of Group Finance IT&D Business Partnership Function, the IT&D Business Relationship Management is the IT&D organisation’s advocate and communicator with the business units assigned. Guiding Tax, Treasury and Legal teams in effectively utilising IT&D to accomplish their goals. This role will require critical thinking and tenacity, working with stakeholders at all levels to make sure that business IT&D needs and requirements are met including leveraging existing applications where possible.

You’ll succeed because you will…

• Experience with collecting and prioritising business requirements and scoping projects in Finance.
• Understand Tax, Legal and Treasury functions and their objectives.
• Have excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Experience with scoping IT&D demand.
• Empathise and listening skills to be able see problems from Business perspective.
• Experience in nurturing and developing a collaborative, consultative and value drive partnership across Business and IT&D stakeholders.
• Have a high level of accountability and ownership from conception through to delivery, operation and value realization.
• Understand application lifecycle and project lifecycle.

You’ll love it because you will… 

• Lead Demand Initial Assessment process and Demand Portfolio Management for all pre-project in Group Finance, Tax, Treasury and Legal areas
• Drive pre-project work including scoping capturing, business requirements gathering, costs, resources, benefits, timelines, etc
• Identify ways to apply technology (new and existing) to the business enabling efficiency improvements or strategic goals realisation
• Develop and maintain the integrated demand portfolio level plan, capture assumptions and identify dependencies for IT&D Demands
• Lead and maintain demand portfolio meeting cadence across pre- projects/ IT&D Demands.
• Collating and maintaining IT&D Roadmaps for Finance process areas
• Lead Quarterly Roadmap review meetings
• Work alongside our Solution Architecture and IT&D Innovation Teams to champion and oversee effective solution design, development and delivery.

Desired:

• 6-8 + years of business experience in one or all the responsible functions 
• Demonstrable experience working with senior leaders in the organization
• Demonstrable experience working well with external partner (IT&D vendors) in technology and process improvement projects
• Ability to clarify ambiguous requirements and manage business expectations
• Plan / schedule pre-project activities by engaging with number of IT&D and business stakeholders
• Experience of scoping complex change and / or multi-disciplinary projects
• Able to build and maintain strong and effective relationships across IT&D and business
• Effective time management and organisational skills
• Critical thinker and ability to demonstrate logical approach to problem solving
• Able to prioritise work and balance competing demands
• Able to deal with conflict and mediate 

Equality

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.