IT Business Analyst

IT Business Analyst

VANRATH are excited to be recruiting for an IT Business Analyst for an established organisation within their Belfast City Centre office.

This is a full time post 37.5 hours per week, this role will be suited to an experienced Business Analyst who enjoys working on projects whilst working with multiple stakeholders.
Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain a thorough working knowledge of the organisation's software systems and processes, taking a holistic approach to Business Analysis to understand the wider impacts of decision making.
• Support the overall delivery of a portfolio of IT projects from initiation to completion, on time, within scope and to budget, following the methodology and best practice standards.
• Understand and document the business drivers, benefits and project objectives through clearly defined success criteria, ensuring these are the core focus of the delivery.
• Maintain an understanding of emerging technology trends and how these can help shape the business.
• Develop models and modelling techniques (e.g. use case diagrams, data flow models, entity relationship diagrams to support decision making.
• Develop concepts, options appraisals and business cases for technology solutions to business challenges, maintaining traceability from vision and strategy to solution/service delivery.
• Conduct process re-engineering and requirements elicitation, validation, and management activities for IT projects.
• Develop functional and non-functional specifications for technology implementations.
• Where necessary, define and conduct system, integration and related testing for technology implementations.
• Support wider business with the definition and execution of user acceptance testing for technology implementations.
• Develop and deliver progress reports.
• Conduct impact assessments for changes in project scope
• Support risk and issue management.
• Support the assessment of an organisation's IT landscape and developing technology investment cases and roadmaps that align with business goals.
• Manage stakeholders to enable the successful delivery of IT projects, including conflict resolution and building consensus regarding the preferred option.
• Categorisation and analysis of stakeholders, internal and external using techniques such as RACI, power/interest grid.
• Develop and deliver training to end users of new and updated technology solutions.
• Ensure that solutions delivered by IT projects are accepted into operations teams and service transition is successful.

The ideal candidate will have had exposure/experience with:

• Business process improvement (including Lean);
• Modelling business processes;
• Business Case Development & Benefits Management;
• Stakeholder relationship management;
• Requirements definition & lifecycle management;
• Process design & re-engineering;
• Business process testing;
• User experience analysis;

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