Business Analyst
Member of the Business Analysis team that is accountable for working with business stakeholders and enterprise/business architecture on change initiatives and projects to:
- Elaborate on high level business propositions and demand roadmaps;
- Generate high level business requirements and oversee the creation of detailed business requirements to a level that can be signed off by the business, used to estimate delivery of the project and handed over to IT and Service delivery teams.
- Act in the role of requirements expert throughout the life cycle of the programme, project or initiative that they are assigned to work on.
Key Accountabilities:
- Provides guidance and mentoring to more inexperienced members of the BA team
- Maintains a strong level of subject matter expertise within own specialism
- Capable of working as the experienced Business Analyst on change initiatives/demand roadmaps or approved change programmes/projects. This may involve Matrix managing a small number of business or system analysts generating requirements.
- Works closely with the VE business to assist with and influence business demand roadmaps and propositions for future projects or programmes.
- Management of the initial and subsequent phases of a proposed project or programme.
- Utilises analysis skills to create the initial version of business cases for projects or programmes in order to ensure clarity of design deliverables. Execute sufficient handover of this business case to PMs.
- Identifies requirements risks associated with projects/programmes; monitors compliance and upholds VE's standards, ensuring analysis cost and quality expectations are met at project/programme/portfolio levels.
- Executes effective stakeholder management across the VE Business on projects and programmes.
- Builds and maintains relationships across functions, guiding and mentoring less experienced business or system analyst colleagues to uphold best practice and aid the personal development of others.
- Generates ideas and contributes to the creation of business analysis methods and tools used in Visa Europe and utilises their enthusiasm and influencing skills to achieve successful adoption of these methods/tools
- Offers requirements consultancy at all stages of a project or programme life cycle, to both business and IT
- Monitors and reviews the quality of the business analysis team deliverables for projects or programmes, ensuring that work adheres to Visa Europe's quality standards and complies with the Corporate Key Controls
- No line management but is expected to provide advice and support to less experienced colleagues
- May lead a team of analysts for a project or programme or during the Demand stage
- No budgetary responsibility but is responsible for producing analysis deliverables to the committed time/cost/quality outlined in the estimate provided to a project or Programme Manager.
Essential Criteria:
- Educated to degree level/equivalent professional experience (eg BCS International Diploma in BA)
- Significant knowledge and experience of IT/Card Payments/Financial Services (minimum 5 years)
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills on multiple projects or programmes
- Results and delivery focussed
Visa Europe is a payments technology business owned and operated by member banks and other payment service providers from 37 countries across Europe.
Visa Europe works at the forefront of technology to create the services and infrastructure which enable millions of European consumers, businesses and governments to make electronic payments. Its members are responsible for issuing cards, signing up retailers and deciding cardholder and retailer fees.
Since 2004, Visa Europe has been independent of Visa Inc. and incorporated in the UK, with an exclusive, irrevocable and perpetual licence in Europe. Both companies work in partnership to enable global Visa payments. As a dedicated European payment system Visa Europe is able to respond quickly to the specific market needs of European banks and their customers - cardholders and retailers - and to meet the European Commission's objective to create a true internal market for payments.