Job Description :

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Business Analyst to join the Change team on a permanent basis, working on operational platform enhancements.

The successful candidate will have broad experience working with investment fund processes, systems and data. The ideal candidate will have experience with private markets, eFront Invest or equivalent, both on functionality within applications, and with related application integrations and data warehouses.

The Business Analyst will support project delivery across multiple areas including strategy, business change, systems development and implementation.

The candidate will have strong stakeholder management skills and will work independently with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of seniority, dealing with business users, management, SaaS vendors and internal IT functions, and will maintain networks with senior SMEs and stakeholders.

The candidate will be proficient in managing change backlogs and in eliciting, validating and tracking business and system requirements from initiation through to successful delivery, and will have BA skills covering process mapping, data cataloguing and system design.

Key Responsibilities :

- Develop a clear understanding of new projects, including eliciting objectives, scope and success criteria.

- Gather and document business requirements and acceptance criteria.

- Define and document end-to-end as-is and to-be business process maps, data flows, use cases and entity relationship diagrams and other relevant project artefacts.

- Consistently own and drive through project issues to a successful resolution with the respective teams in a timely manner.

- Collaborate with technology and business team partners to drive consensus.

- Work with business and technology colleagues to verify and validate requirements against solution delivery at each step of the lifecycle.

- Pro-actively establish working relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts.

- Support the successful adoption of business and IT change within the business community by maintaining engagement with the user base, enabling training and support as required.

- Report periodically on status, progress, risks and issues to stakeholders and management.

Skills and Experience Required :

- You will bring substantial experience (typically 5+ years) in the financial services sector, with a strong track record of delivering projects - ideally within Private Markets or Fund Management.

- Knowledge of the investment management and related systems and processes (Fund administration, investment and fund setup, transactions and valuations management).

- Knowledge and experience of data platforms, data warehousing and reporting.

- Knowledge and experience of defining system interfaces and integration.

- Experience running workshops with both business and technical stakeholders to elicit business processes and requirements, review analysis and validate documented project artefacts.

- Ability to elicit and document process flows with BPMN using appropriate tools (e.g. MS Visio).

- Experience of Waterfall and Agile Scrum project life cycles within a structured environment.

- Experience with backlog management in Azure DevOps or Jira, with Project management, scrum master or team management skills.

- Exposure to working with external third-party vendors and partners.

- Ability to develop and execute stakeholder engagement strategies, build strong rapport, constructively challenge stakeholder assumptions and mediate between conflicting requirements.

- Ability to communicate complex solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and succinct manner.

- Hands-on experience on SQL, data modelling and data mapping.