
Senior Business Systems Analyst
- United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Serve as primary liaison between the user community and the IT Technical team, ensuring that business processes and requirements are clear, measurable and articulated in a manner that allows the technical team to propose, estimate and construct appropriate solutions.
- Build strong relationships with internal business peers and develop/maintain an understanding of the business process areas that require automated solutions.
- Lead requirements gathering activities, including facilitating workshops, focus groups, interviews, conference room pilots, etc.
- Ensure any changes requested fit within the e2e and impact assessments are completed, documented, and communicated.
- Collaborate with Technical architects to ensure that technical standards are met, and requirements meet the definition of ready before being implemented.
- Manage projects following the Sophos project management methodology including preparation of Project Charter, co-ordination of project tasks, and preparation of project status reports.
- Model current and future state business processes and ask questions needed to fully understand business objectives and elicit/refine complex business requirements necessary to achieve them. Ensure requirements and solutions proposed map clearly to objectives established.
- Represent functional area and IT on cross-functional enhancements and projects, including the coordination and resolution of issues, where required.
- Working with QA teams (where appropriate), develop test schedules and scenarios for both system testing and user acceptance testing that establish success criteria up-front, as part of requirements gathering process.
- Facilitate User Acceptance Testing sessions working with the business to agree test scope and ensure approvals by agreed timelines.
- Advise representatives from the business and IT on the impact of new functionality and opportunities for business improvement.
- Assist team in prioritization of bug fixes and enhancement requests as part of run-rate activities supporting business operations.
- Experience with operational business processes, in particular Order to Cash and software fulfilment management.
- Experience in a business analyst or related role, with demonstrated experience with gathering requirements, and working with third party vendors to implement new solutions.
- Knowledge of industry standard methodologies, tools and processes for business and process analysis.
- The ability to distil a complex set of requirements into defined deliverables
- The ability to weigh critical, well-informed trade-offs and have the data points to defend those decisions.
- Experience writing test scenarios intended to verify achievement of documented requirements and established success criteria.
- Strong collaboration skills to interface successfully with a broad variety of stakeholders across multiple time zones and functional domains.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and high attention to detail.
- Ability to adapt communication style to technical and non-technical audiences, both verbally and in writing.
- Experience with CRM systems, such as