Business Intelligence Analyst

Job Title Business Analyst

Job Purpose: The Business Analyst works under the guidance of Portfolio Management. The Business t Analyst works with Product Management, Portfolio group, the Business Owners and Scrum team(s) to create and define user stories and supporting artefacts for product features and enhancements. The Business Analyst assists with identifying and documenting Features and which will improve business efficiency, productivity and drive revenue. The Business Analyst will also assist the Product Management function in prioritizing business epics and agile release train epics in prioritizing and grooming features and associated user stories for inclusion in a particular release and a particular sprint.

Key Accountabilities:

Accountability Supporting Activities

Business Analysis :Investigates operational needs and problems, and opportunities,

contributing to the recommendation of improvements in automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes and organisation. Assists in defining acceptance tests for these

recommendations.

Business Process Improvement: Analyses business processes; identifies alternative solutions, assesses feasibility, and recommends new approaches. Contributes to evaluating the factors which must be addressed in the change programme. Helps establish requirements for the implementation of changes in the business process.

Relationship Management :Implements stakeholder engagement/ communications plans, including, for

example; handling of complaints; problems and issues; managing resolutions; corrective actions and lessons learned; collection and dissemination of relevant information. Uses feedback from customers and

stakeholders to help measure effectiveness of stakeholder management.

Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

Requirements Definition and Management :Uses established techniques as directed to identify current problems and elicit, specify and document business functional, data and non-functional

requirements for simple subject areas with clearly-defined boundaries.

Assists in more complex requirements activities and with the processes for establishing agreed baselines for change and managing the assessment and application of requested changes to those requirements.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

• A flexible attitude with respect to work assignments and new learning

• Ability to manage multiple and varied tasks with enthusiasm and prioritize workload with attention

to detail.

• Shows Initiative and self-confidence, is adaptable and is able to cope with changing and evolving

priorities.

• Must have the ability to work methodically in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment

Knowledge and Experience:

• Understanding of Agile methodologies (preferably Scrum), UML, Object Orientated, Data

Modeling, Process Modeling and/or other development methodologies

• Awareness of structured approach to test planning and test execution.

Education:

• Degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or Computer Science field, or equivalent.

QualificationsDegree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or Computer Science field, or equivalent.