Business Analyst

ARHS; Polska; On-site; PLN 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm in Poland is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to enhance business processes and support software development. The ideal candidate must have a Bachelor's degree, at least 8 years of experience, and relevant certifications like CBAP. Responsibilities include documenting business processes, analyzing requirements, and collaborating with stakeholders to implement improvements. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional development are offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or equivalent required.
• 5 years of project experience relevant to the role.

Responsibilities

• Models value chain and business processes.
• Analyzes business needs and requirements.
• Supports product owners during requirement definition.

Skills

Business process modeling using BPMN

Requirements elicitation and analysis

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Sparx Enterprise Architect

Aris Architect

Job description

Company Description

Arηs is a fully independent group of companies specialized in managing complex IT projects and systems for large organisations, focusing on state‑of‑the‑art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services. We are composed of 13 entities across 8 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants. This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy. Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework. Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high‑quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Business Analyst to join our growing team in one of the biggest European organisations.

Tasks

• Models and documents value chain/streams, business processes, roles, capabilities and data.
• Elicits and analyses business needs, requirements and user stories,
• Supports business experts and product owners during the definition of requirements and software development
• Maintains and tracks requirements/user stories in the system's lifecycle
• Transfers business, users and technical needs into business requirements specification,
• Maps business goals, project benefits, priorities, components, and system features
• Analyses available systems- Supports identification of options for potential solutions
• Supports the preparation of business cases and feasibility studies
• Contributes to systems design, testing, quality assurance, and change management.
• Responsible for designing, validating, and testing business processes for achieving business process excellence
• Responsible for taking a holistic approach in the planning and managing of a programmes for continuous improvements of business processes
• Responsible for coaching client's staff on upcoming changes, ensuring that a plan is in place to teach new skills and/or process changes
• Collaborates with owners of end-to-end processes to seek out process improvements continually
• Identifies opportunities for business process improvement leading to improved customer service, lower costs, or higher revenue (effectiveness and efficiency gains)
• Communicates project objectives, business case, requirements, and scope to all stakeholders, to better provide rapid responses to business needs
• Quantitatively analyses business processes, performing cost-benefit and what-if analysis
• Plans the organisational changes process
• Implements performance monitoring systems for business processes
• Supports business users in developing strategic and tactical plans (e.g. sector strategies, implementation plans etc.)
• Supports the definition of transition roadmaps for business architectures.

Qualifications

Knowledge and skills

• Bachelor's degree plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience
• Holds Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certificate from IIBA or equivalent, or holds OMG Certified UML Professional certificate at advanced level or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of project experience relevant to the profile or a similar position
• Has gone at least 1 time through the complete lifecycle of the software solution
• Knowledge in business processes modelling using BPMN notation,
• Knowledge in requirements/user stories elicitation and analysis,
• Knowledge in analysis/modelling notations like UML (capability diagram, activity diagram, state diagram, logical data model, etc.)
• Proficient in using modelling tools like Sparx Enterprise Architect, Aris Architect or others
• Presents excellent analytical and communication skills
• Holds the ability to create and maintain analytical and project documentation effectively
• Presents problem‑solving skills

Specific requirements

• Participated in and has experience in a project aimed at business process improvement or redesign
• Participated and has experience in the role of Business Analyst in a project aimed at analysis, design, implementation and deployment of an ICT Solution that enabled multilevel, multistakeholder reporting
• Expert in organisation and management of workshops, and has experience and knowledge of how to prepare and conduct structured/unstructured interviews (incl. designing questionnaires)
• Has experience in preparing and conducting market studies/research
• Has experience in business change management
• Has experience in business architecture (organisation, value streams, capabilities, business processes, information) modelling and/or analysis
• Being familiar with formal business process management methods such as Lean, Six Sigma
• Being familiar with the BABOK (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) framework

At least 2 certifications among

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or equivalent
• Certified UML Professional certificate at the foundation level or BPM 2 fundamental level or equivalent
• or equivalent certifications recognised internationally (subject to acceptance as a valid credential by the Contracting Authority)

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