Data Business Analyst

Position scope:

To define and manage system requirements and scope of change initiatives. To carry out specification of business requirements to a level that enables effective development and testing of agreed changes.

Key responsibilities:

• To facilitate scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives of medium size and complexity.

• To contribute to selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring traceability back to source.

• To discover and analyse requirements for fitness for purpose as well as adhering to business objectives and consistency, challenging positively as appropriate.

• To obtain formal agreement by stakeholders and recipients to scope requirements and establish a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence.

• To apply and monitor the use of required industry standard modelling and analysis tools, methods and standards, giving special consideration to system perspectives.

• To manage requests for and the application of changes to base-lined requirements. To estimate the effort for changes to this baseline and identify the impact requirements of interim (eg migration) scenarios as well as the required end position.

• To carry out any other task associated with the role as reasonably requested.

Required Skills and Work Experience

Essential

• Good communication skills, verbal and written
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels
• Experience in documenting requirements in a formalised method
• Experience in workshop facilitation
• Exposure to a projects environment or experience of the project life cycle

Desirable

• Strong business analyst experience
• Experience in launching new business, including external client interaction
• Insurance experience