Senior Business Analyst

Vitality, Senior Business Analyst, Bournemouth or Stockport, GBPCompetitive + Bonus + Benefits

Vitality is an award winning, dynamic and vibrant financial services provider, with a ground-breaking vision for the future, where individuals are enabled to succeed and are rewarded and recognised for their contribution to our business.

In exchange for your hard work and commitment to Vitality in this Senior Business Analyst role, we have designed a generous benefits package to reward our employees, this includes;

- A genuine opportunity to grow and establish a long-term career

- Our award winning private medical insurance

- Comprehensive flexible benefits scheme

- Stakeholder Pension Plan with employer contribution

- 25 Days annual leave+ Bank holidays + option to buy and sell 5 more

- Vitality Partners and Rewards

As our Senior Business Analyst you will be responsible for the production of Business Analysis artefacts, utilising a range of techniques and methods to elicit requirements, verify, and trace delivery through the lifecycle of a project. The Senior BA will work on highly complex projects with Senior Company Executives, often supporting dependency requirements across a range of delivery teams.

Responsibilities of our Senior Business Analyst:

- Responsible for the delivery of analysis artefacts (using either Waterfall or Agile methodology) through any channel

- Adheres to agreed Change Management protocols & processes

- Peer reviews the outputs of other Business analysts, offering constructive feedback where applicable and ensuring that in-house analysis standards are adhered to

- Heavily involved in Concept Request / Response work, defining scope, assessing impacts & considering potential approach options for analysis

- Proactively communicates and collaborates with external and internal customers to analyses information, functional requirements and business impact

- Documents the business user requirements and process flows (as-is and to-be) in the agreed format. Identifies organisational impact of proposed change initiatives

- Works with Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure designs meet function and non-functional requirements

- Raises Project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies to the Project Manager / Portfolio in a timely manner, offering mitigating actions and taking ownership of individual items where appropriate

- Estimates deliverables applicable to self and/or others robustly and realistically for planning purposes

- Responsible for ensuring the traceability of requirements to solutions at a Project / initiative level and for any delegated assignments (i.e. to a Trainee BA)

Skills required of our Senior Business Analyst:

Essential

- Experience working in Agile, Small Change & Strategic Project environments

- Expert in MS Visio

- Expert in Jira

- BCS Diploma in Business Analysis preferred

Experience

- Has a close link to wider industry practices & the Business Analyst profession

- Has coached others in the proficient use of 'as is' & 'to be' process models using BPMN 2.0 standards

- Experience working within a complex matrix management environment

- Has coached others in the proficient use of structured requirements outputs, including Use Cases, Business Rules, Business Requirements (Functional & Non-Functional), traceability matrices, User Stories & Epic Definition

Working for Vitality as a Senior Business Analyst you'll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best.

Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved.

Closing Date: Tuesday 18th June 2019

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our Senior Business Analyst please click 'apply' today.