In the context of a major business transformation program, we are looking for a senior functional analyst to reinforce the existing teams. As a senior analyst you will join a department of about 90 people to ensure the hand‑over, refactoring or greenfield development of new business applications. The functional analyst we’re looking for can handle all phases of a project and work in an Agile environment.
Responsibilities
- Developing strong and long‑term relationships with stakeholders (business and project stakeholders, team managers and our partners)
- Detailed identification, analysis, description and validation of both existing business processes and new (non) functional needs of the users
- Translating requirements into business solutions by creating functional analysis and application designs
- Working together with technical team members to validate the functional design and create the translation to technical specifications
- End‑to‑end follow‑up on the delivery of new functionalities and/or applications
- Producing all documentation needed throughout the different stages of projects
- Working closely with business analysts and developers under the supervision of the project manager/coordinators to refine and validate the proposed solutions
- Working closely with project managers to report status, facilitate decisions, manage risks and escalate as needed
Deliverables
- Analysis documentation
- Software requirements specifications (including needed diagrams, analysis, …)
- Data model
- User stories
- Test plan and cases
Mission & Working Hours
We are based in Brussels (right in front of South Station). This will be an initial contract – the mission is long term and can be extended. 5 days from Monday until Friday (7h48 per day). Homeworking is possible (3 days a week).
Languages
- French or Dutch: active knowledge (understanding/speaking/writing technical documentation/reading) of one language
- English (writing documentation): active knowledge
Competencies
- Very good functional and business analysis skills to be able to assimilate complex material quickly
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the business and development team
- Solution and customer oriented
- Good ability to abstract complex material
- Willing to change business context regularly
- Ability to integrate easily into an existing team and to supervise juniors
- Familiar with AGILE/SCRUM methodologies
- The application ecosystem is relatively extensive and relies on classic development technologies (J2EE, Java8, Oracle, Hibernate, Junit, Selenium, Maven, GIT, JIRA…)
- The Analyst function does not require technical tasks, but it is necessary to master the technical language to carry out functional analyses (APIs, mappings, business model, batches, services,…)
- Business Analysis – interface with the client and helps them define their needs
- A good knowledge of the second national language is a plus
Required Skills
- Agile / Scrum
- BPMN
- Confluence
- Customer journey
- Functional Analysis (UML)
- SQL
- Test Analysis & Design
- UML
- User stories writing
Due to the nature of the activities, the candidate must have Belgian nationality.