The posting
IT Business Analyst - 12 months contract
We are looking for an experienced IT Business Analyst to work closely with business and technology teams to deliver system enhancements and technology solutions within a financial services environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Gather, analyse and document business and functional requirements.
- Translate business requirements into Epics, Features, User Stories and acceptance criteria.
- Act as the key liaison between business stakeholders, Product Owners, developers, engineers and architects.
- Analyse existing workflows and recommend process and system improvements.
- Facilitate requirement gathering, solutioning and design discussions with business and technology teams.
- Support Agile/Scrum delivery, including backlog prioritisation, sprint planning and user story refinement.
- Work with development teams throughout the project lifecycle to ensure requirements are correctly implemented.
- Define test scenarios and support system testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Coordinate UAT sign-off and readiness for production deployment.
- Identify and escalate project risks, issues and dependencies.
- Prepare process flows, system documentation and other project artefacts.
- Use data and analysis to support business decisions and recommendations.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of Business Analyst experience, preferably within insurance, banking or financial services.
- Strong experience in business requirements gathering, functional analysis and process/workflow design.
- Experience writing Epics, Features, User Stories and acceptance criteria.
- Good understanding of Agile/Scrum and software development methodologies.
- Experience supporting UAT, testing and technology implementations.
- Comfortable working with both business and technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with enterprise applications, system integrations and system/data flows.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Experience within the insurance industry would be highly advantageous.



