Contract Business Analyst
Ergo, Ireland

Overview:

A Telecom sector client of ours has a requirement for an Experienced Business Analyst on contract.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Agree and document business and technical requirements in high quality user stories or in a stand requirements document
• Gather business requirements and technical from stakeholders
• Work closely with Business, Product Management, Project Managers, Architects, Technical stakeholders and Product Owners as required to deliver detailed functional requirements and process definition
• Produce and prioritize user stories/requirements and obtain clarification on business/technical requirements
• Drive the gathering of requirements having read supporting documentation
• Ability to self-manage the business/technical analysis activity through to completion
• Facilitate and lead team interactions and communications through regular workshops
• Support key stakeholders in identification and resolution of issues
• Ensure full alignment between various internal and external teams and gain agreement to the desired outcomes
• Ensure high quality by performing testing activities to confirm that software developed meets acceptance criteria for the user stories
• Ability to analyze key areas of improvements to processes, tools and scope
• Experience in mapping and documenting the ‘As Is’ and the desired outcomes to show the `To be’ processes
• Produce both process and data flow maps as required identifying timings, functional responsibilities etc

Key Requirements for this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Business/Technology/Engineering or related degree
• Experience in Telco sector an advantage
• Self-starter with a passion for quickly learning and implementing new concepts
• Leadership and collaborative interpersonal skills to engage and motivate team members
• Strong relationship building and communications skills with ability to present ideas and concepts coherently to senior stakeholders
• Ability to own and manage content with responsibility for ensuring it is up to date
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proactive in handling issues, risks, dependencies and escalations
• Excellent organizational skills; ability to prioritize tasks, work with schedules, manage resources while remaining focused on team goals skills (organizing meetings/calls and coordinating activities)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience working with teams using Agile methodologies
• Strong relationship building and interpersonal abilities
• Experience working in a team-orientated, collaborative environment and motivating others to provide innovative solutions for team improvement

Job Rewards and Benefits