Senior Business Analyst - Transfer Agency

Expleo; Dublin; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Expleo Academy

Medical and dental insurance

Pension

Employee wellbeing programme

Sports and social events

Birthday hampers

Job summary

Expleo is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join our high-performance team, providing professional advice, coordinating areas within Business Analysis, and overseeing technical and business readiness workstreams to deliver projects on time and within budget.

The role suits candidates with either a Business Readiness or Technical Business Analysis background, with Transfer Agency experience and exposure to client onboarding, fund migration, conversion, or deconversion projects; NSCC knowledge

Qualifications

• Relevant third level qualification or equivalent work experience.
• Desirable: Project Management qualification
• Desirable: Management qualification or relevant years of experience
• Desirable: Additional course or certification in Business Analysis

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate multiple phases of technical and/or business readiness activities within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and complexity.
• Support Transfer Agency client onboarding, fund migration, conversion, and deconversion initiatives.
• Map end-to-end business processes and implement solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes.
• Gather business requirements from stakeholders and review existing processes to produce detailed business requirement specification documents.
• Run workshops using proven techniques for creating detailed business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Assist and supervise team contribution and communication to ensure complete requirement coverage.
• Apply standards and methodologies, providing expertise and support on the use of methods and tools.
• Conduct needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modelling, and/or logical database design activities.
• Identify and assess risks to the success of the project.
• Agree project approaches with stakeholders and prepare realistic plans, including quality, risk, communication, and readiness plans.
• Track activities against project schedules and manage stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Support business readiness activities, including stakeholder engagement, training coordination, operational impact assessments, and implementation planning.
• Handle training and build competency within the practice.

Skills

Transfer Agency

Client onboarding

Stakeholder management

People management

Teamwork

Delivery focus

Risk management

Creativity and risk balance

Education

Relevant third level qualification

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Overview

You will join our high-performance team of Business Analysts and act as a Senior Business Analyst, providing professional advice, managing and/or coordinating an area within Business Analysis. You will have the opportunity to oversee technical and business readiness workstreams within projects, using available frameworks, tools, and methodologies to deliver project goals on time and within budget.

This role is suitable for candidates with either a Business Readiness or Technical Business Analysis background. Candidates must have Transfer Agency experience and proven exposure to client onboarding, fund migration, conversion, or deconversion projects. Experience with NSCC processes is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate multiple phases of technical and/or business readiness activities within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and complexity.
• Support Transfer Agency client onboarding, fund migration, conversion, and deconversion initiatives.
• Map end-to-end business processes and implement solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes.
• Gather business requirements from stakeholders and review existing processes to produce detailed business requirement specification documents.
• Run workshops using proven techniques for creating detailed business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Assist and supervise team contribution and communication to ensure complete requirement coverage.
• Apply standards and methodologies, providing expertise and support on the use of methods and tools.
• Conduct needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modelling, and/or logical database design activities.
• Identify and assess risks to the success of the project.
• Agree project approaches with stakeholders and prepare realistic plans, including quality, risk, communication, and readiness plans.
• Track activities against project schedules and manage stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Support business readiness activities, including stakeholder engagement, training coordination, operational impact assessments, and implementation planning.
• Handle training and build competency within the practice.

Qualifications

• Relevant third level qualification or equivalent work experience

Desirable

• Project Management qualification
• Management qualification or relevant years of experience
• Additional course or certification in Business Analysis

Essential skills

• Proven experience in Transfer Agency.
• Experience supporting client onboarding, fund migration, conversion, and/or deconversion projects.
• Excellent client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
• People management skills, including mentoring, knowledge sharing, and capability development.
• Teamwork and emotional intelligence.
• Strong self-management and delivery focus.
• Innovative approach with the ability to balance creativity and risk management.
• High value on openness, transparency, and collaboration.

Experience

• 7 years of proven experience as a Business Analyst, successfully gathering requirements, analyzing business processes, identifying improvement opportunities, and delivering solutions that align with organizational objectives.
• Strong knowledge of business analysis methodologies and awareness of emerging technologies and developments.
• Good applications and technology knowledge, building on specialist domain expertise.
• Proven ability to ensure projects meet quality standards through guidance and development of quality procedures.
• Experience applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and resolve operational and technical challenges.
• Experience providing technical guidance and support to colleagues.
• Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience with NSCC processes is preferred.

Benefits

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and success throughout your career with us.

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and question the status quo.

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.