Senior Business Analyst

Expleo; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Expleo is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead and guide delivery across major projects from a Lisbon-based setup. You will map business processes, gather requirements, run workshops, and ensure solutions meet quality, budget, and schedule targets.

With 5–7 years in business analysis, you will partner with clients and stakeholders across locations, using MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to produce clear documentation and plans. Fluent English is required.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead senior project phases and manage multiple projects of moderate to high scope.
• Map full business processes and implement solutions for improvements.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders and produce detailed BRD.
• Run workshops to elicit detailed business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure complete requirement coverage by supporting and guiding team contributions.
• Apply standards and methodologies and provide expertise on methods and tools.
• Conduct needs analysis, data analysis and modelling with relational databases.
• Identify and assess risks to project success.
• Agree on project approach with stakeholders and prepare realistic plans.
• Track activities against the schedule and manage stakeholder involvement.
• Support training and build competency within the practice.

Skills

Client facing

Teamwork

Self-management

Innovation

Education

Relevant third level qualification

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Project planning tools

Job description

Overview

Join our high-performing Business Analysis team as a senior contributor, providing expert advice and leadership across key project areas. You’ll manage technical delivery using proven frameworks and tools to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.

Responsibilities

• Be a Senior member on multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and complexity.
• Map full business processes and implement solutions for technological and process improvements.
• Gather business requirements from stakeholders and review existing ones to produce detailed business requirement specification documents.
• Run workshops using proven techniques to create detailed business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure complete requirement coverage by supporting and guiding team contributions and communication.
• Apply standards and methodologies, and provide expertise on the use of methods and tools.
• Conduct needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modelling, and/or logical database design with relational databases.
• Identify and assess risks to the success of the project.
• Agree on the project approach with stakeholders and prepare realistic plans (including quality, risk, and communications plans).
• Track activities against the project schedule and manage stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Support training and build competency within the practice.

Qualifications

• Relevant third level qualification or equivalent work experience

Desirable

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

Essential skills

• Excellent client-facing skills
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both a goal and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance

Experience

• Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in senior-level roles.
• Proven experience leading workshops and managing stakeholders across multiple locations.
• Strong knowledge of Business Analysis methodologies and application technologies, ideally in Facilities or Property Management.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve operational problems, ensuring project quality and supporting more junior colleagues.
• High proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, with experience using project planning and control tools.
• Good knowledge of English.

What do I need before I apply

• The opportunity is remote but the candidate must already be living in Portugal.