Senior Business Analyst (contractor)

Develop business requirements and backlogs

Develop detailed business specifications, including worked numerical examples

Develop functional architectures and solutions designs

Develop delivery roadmaps, identify dependencies, risks and issues

Perform business process reengineering

Work as part of a team in hybrid manner

Engage with client stakeholders to ascertain requirements, and validate Lab49 output

Facilitate workshops between Lab and client to resolve issues, risks and discover requirements

Working knowledge of financial markets, some experience of payments

Working knowledge of typical financial flows and architecture

Understanding of business process modelling

Ability to gather and document business requirements

Understanding of agile methodologies including the creation of epics / user stories and the effective management of backlogs

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication skills; able to represent the team, project and firm in all manner of client situations

Willingness and ability to get “hands-on” as needed; developing detailed specification and numerical examples

Experience with business analysis projects both as an individual and as part of a team

Experience with business analysis in the financial markets environment

Experience working with IT teams to deliver products / solutions

Experience with projects from inception through to delivery

Experience working in an agile environment

You want to help clients gain a deep understanding of their business processes and work with them to identify new and improved ways of working

You like to see things through from idea to final product

You keep up with the latest business trends in the market

You keep up with the latest techniques, e.g. Deep Learning, NLP, AI and how they can be used to solve problems, increase productivity

You pay attention to the details

You have the sufficient confidence and credibility to represent Lab49 to the client

You have the ability to understand the client need and articulate that to our internal teams

You have the drive and ability to be successful in new environments and domains.<