Onsite Cork Functional Analyst - Contract to Year-End

Berkley Group; Cork; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Berkley Group in Cork seeks an experienced Functional Analyst to join on an initial contract ending this year, with a chance of extension. The role focuses on gathering and documenting requirements, translating business needs into functional and system specifications, and supporting software testing and UAT. Onsite three days a week.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, developers, QA, and architects to ensure clear requirements, manage dependencies, and produce BRD/FRD and user stories.

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Functional Analyst, Business Systems Analyst or IT Business Analyst.
• Proven experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements.
• Experience producing BRDs, functional specifications, User Stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong understanding of system and application dependencies and impact analysis.
• Experience working across complex application environments.
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Previous experience supporting functional testing, SIT or UAT.
• Agile and/or Waterfall delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and document business requirements, including BRD/BRA documentation.
• Translate business needs into functional and system requirements.
• Create User Stories and acceptance criteria within Agile environments.
• Produce functional documentation such as FRDs, SRS/SRA documents where required.
• Assess the impact of changes across multiple systems, applications and integrations.
• Work closely with business stakeholders, developers, architects and QA teams to clarify and validate requirements.
• Ensure requirements are clearly understood, documented and agreed before development.
• Support functional testing, SIT and UAT activities.
• Assist with test planning, test cases, defect clarification and validation where required.

Skills

Functional analysis

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

UAT support

Stakeholder management

Agile/Waterfall

SQL

Tools

BRD/FRD creation

User stories

SRS/SRA documents

Job description

Berkley Group in Cork seeks an experienced Functional Analyst to join on an initial contract ending this year, with a chance of extension. The role focuses on gathering and documenting requirements, translating business needs into functional and system specifications, and supporting software testing and UAT. Onsite three days a week.

You will collaborate with stakeholders, developers, QA, and architects to ensure clear requirements, manage dependencies, and produce BRD/FRD and user stories.