Senior Business Analyst

Avance Consulting; Clewer Village; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support Demand Management and requirements processes across projects in the energy sector. You will liaise with sponsors, directors and end-users to ensure alignment of business goals with technical capabilities.

The role requires strong analytical skills, finance knowledge, and experience with Agile processes to drive efficient project outcomes and maintain robust traceability throughout delivery.

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience as a Business Analyst.
• Experience communicating to non-technical audiences.
• Strong oral and written communications skills.
• Analytical yet pragmatic and detail oriented.
• Experience with Finance Projects and core accounting processes.

Responsibilities

• Support the Demand Management process from ideation to business case creation.
• Oversee the requirements process: scoping, elicitation, documentation and sign-off.
• Input into supplier selection as needed.
• Ensure best practices and standards are followed.
• Act as an intermediary between sponsors, directors, leads and end-users.
• Facilitate communication to align business goals with technical capabilities.
• Assess operational effectiveness and develop efficiency improvements.
• Use market trends and financial analysis to identify opportunities.
• Collaborate with Development and QA/UAT to ensure requirements are met.
• Maintain traceability matrix and manage expectations with PM.
• Ensure deliverables are reviewed and approved appropriately.
• Support impact assessment for new projects to initiate BA work.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder communication

Requirements gathering

Documentation

Process mapping

Agile processes

Finance experience

Data presentation

Analytical thinking

Energy industry awareness

Tools

ADO

Visio

Process Mapping

Workshop facilitation

Job description

Key responsibilities:

• Support the Demand Management Process through initial gathering of ideas through to scoping and creation of business cases
• Overseeing the entire requirements process, including scoping, elicitation, documentation, and sign-off
• Input into Supplier Selection process as needed
• Ensuring best practices and standards are followed throughout the project
• Acting as an intermediary between various stakeholders, such as Project Sponsors, Directors, Business Leads and End-Users
• Facilitating communication to ensure business goals align with technical capabilities
• Assessing operational effectiveness and developing strategies to improve efficiency
• Using market trends and financial analysis to identify opportunities for improvement
• Collaborating with Development and Quality Assurance/User Acceptance Testing (QA/UAT) teams to ensure requirements are met
• Managing traceability matrix to understand scope of delivery vs original requirement and managing expectations with PM where misalignment identified
• Ensuring deliverables are reviewed and approved appropriately
• Supports impact assessment of newly mobilised projects to ensure that their scope / shape is well enough understood to start Business Analysis work

Key Skills/Knowledge:

• 6+ years experience as a Business Analyst
• Understanding of key business processes and alignment to these from a technology perspective.
• Experienced in communicating to non-technical audiences.
• Possesses strong oral and written communications skills
• Thoughtful, methodical, pragmatic, disciplined and analytical yet agile and efficient.
• Insight and understanding of architecture and integration techniques for the assembly and federation of both internal and external IT Solutions
• Proficiency in business analysis tools and methods (e.g. ADO, Visio, Process Mapping, Workshop facilitation)
• Proactively identifies analysis that needs to be done, and share plans / timelines with stakeholders
• Experience with Finance Projects, Finance processes, Core accounting, Journal Mgmt, High Volume Transaction Matching, Balance sheet reconciliation
• Experience with Blackline / Trintec solutions
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to take ownership of challenges and drive to conclusion
• Good commercial acumen and business finance and accounting knowledge
• Analytical thinker with the ability to present meaningful data to a wide range of business and IS audiences
• Awareness of energy industry and technology trends

Experience required:

• 6+ years of relevant Business Analyst experience
• Experience working as an Individual contributor
• Experience of Agile Processes
• Energy Industry exposure will be an advantage.