Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Acts as a bridge between the business problems and the technology solutions.
- Supports the analysis, transformation and ultimately works towards resolving business problems with the help of technology.
- Works with internal clients and applies best practice methodologies to determine business requirements and to define solutions to address business, process, information and system problems, improvements or change.
- Delivers business projects in line with sponsor requirements and enterprise architecture.
- Proactive development and deployment of enhanced services and platforms, covering all the functional aspects from service/product definition through to build and deployment.
- Ensures the identification and documentation of operational gaps including user guides, templates, test cases and related user training.
- Assists with the resolution of issues pertaining to the service.
- Adheres to and follows the relevant development and support processes.
- Communicates and escalates if any issues arise or deliverables cannot be met and requests assistance to ensure closure of issues.
- Takes responsibility for delivery of project elements under relevant guidance and supervision.
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes
- Demonstrated understanding of business practices and processes
- Team player who displays good client service orientation with well-developed administrative and organisational skills
- Developing expertise in specific systems, processes and technologies that they will be required to analyse
- Meticulous attention to detail whilst working under pressure
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to listen empathetically
- Ability to build rapport and engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders
- Knowledge of project management methodology
- Good analytical skills with the ability to convert business requirements into operational deliverables (functional requirements) to meet business objectives
- Good documentation skills, in particular, functional requirements, test cases, system user documentation, processes and procedures and presentations
- Very good working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Word, Excel Project, PowerPoint and Visio
- Understanding of systems generally used in a services organisation e.g. ServiceNow, Siebel, Remedy, SAP, EMS would be advantageous
Academic Qualifications and Certifications
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with related demonstrable experience
- Project management certification would be advantageous
- IIBA Membership required
- PMI PBA
- Relevant technology certification(s) required, such as ITIL
Required Experience
- Moderate level experience as a Business Analyst gained within a technology services environment
- Moderate level experience as a system administrator or developer would be advantageous
- Developing experience in and with all operational aspects of a Services business, preferably with a Systems Integrator
- Developing experience in the business requirement gathering, use case definition, process mapping and implementing new services and systems
- Understanding of and experience with ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) and the application of ITIL tools within a service integrator