Senior Business Analyst

IFS; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their IT leadership team. In this pivotal role, you will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring successful delivery of innovative solutions. You will lead the Business Analysis community, gather requirements, and manage stakeholder expectations while collaborating with cross-functional teams. This position offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment that values creativity and innovation, empowering you to make a significant impact on the organization and its clients. If you're ready to drive change and enhance business processes, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Senior Business Analyst in complex environments.
• Expert in creating user stories, use cases, and functional specifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Business Analysis team and drive best practices.
• Gather and document business requirements across various solutions.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem-Solving

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Agile Methodologies

Waterfall Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration

Relevant Business Analysis certifications

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

ERP systems

Job description

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our IT leadership team. The ideal candidate will act as the lead across our Business Analysis team in a matrix environment while actively being a bridge between business stakeholders and our technical teams, driving best practice, defining requirements and ensuring the successful delivery of solutions to meet the business outcomes.

This role involves working across end to end business processes including eliciting requirements, creating user stories, managing key stakeholders. Additionally, you will take on Project Coordination/Change Management responsibilities where appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Analysis Framework and Leadership of Communities of BA
  • Build best practice Business Analysis practices
  • Drive development across Business Analysis and Systems Analyst community, bringing common practices to our ways of working
• Requirement Gathering and Analyzing:
  • Gather and document business requirements across business solutions and applications, particularly focused on Microsoft, ERP, CRM, Web and SaaS based solutions.
  • Elicit and analyze business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
  • Conduct interviews, workshops, and surveys to gather user requirements, drive best practice and challenge into discussions and provide feedback.
• Stakeholder Management:
  • Act as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and the technical team.
  • Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure clear communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Documentation and Analysis:
  • Create detailed documentation including user stories, use cases, process flows, and functional specifications.
  • Analyze and map business processes to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization.
• Collaboration:
  • Collaborate with product owners, developers, designers, and QA teams to ensure requirements are understood and implemented correctly.
  • Collaborate with the development team to ensure that configurations and customizations meet business needs.
• Quality Assurance:
  • Assist in the development of test plans and test cases to ensure that the solutions meet business requirements.
• Project Coordination:
  • Coordinate project activities, resources, and timelines to ensure successful project delivery as required, mostly small to mid-size change initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience and Skills:
  • Proven extensive experience as a Senior Business Analyst or Business Systems Analyst in complex platform environments, ideally in a platform based business with Contact to Cash and Finance background.
  • Leadership experience in Business Analysis, Systems Platforms or major programme delivery in Business Analysis capacity.
  • Extensive experience and understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Expert in creating user stories, use cases, process flows, and functional specifications.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to manage stakeholder relationships effectively at all levels of the organisation.
• Technical Proficiency:
  • Expertise across ERP implementations (or equivalent) acting as senior or lead BA.
  • Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and other project management tools.
  • Exposure to IFS Cloud platforms would be ideal but not essential.
• Educational Background:
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Relevant Business Analysis certifications such as CCBA, Agile BA.

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.