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 the business analysts and developers under the supervision of the project manager/coordinators in view of refining and validating the proposed solutions.
- Working closely together with the project managers to report status, facilitate decisions, manage risks and escalations as needed.
Deliverables
- Analysis documentation
- Software requirements specifications (including needed diagrams, analysis, ...)
- 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 & Competencies
- French or Dutch: active knowledge (understanding / speaking / writing technical documentation / reading) of one language.
- English (writing documentation): active knowledge.
- 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 in order 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.
Legal requirement
Due to the nature of the activities, the candidate must have the Belgian nationality.