Sr. Business Analyst

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Understand complex business issues and has the ability to understand the technical implications associated with business requirements
• Data Analysis and producing data mappings between various data and reporting platforms
• Acting as Data owners, understanding end to end journey from business as well as data perspective.
• Analysing the impact of upstream changes, in terms of data and communicating downstream impact as well.
• Understanding Data Lifecycle
• Creating Data Catalogues
• Writing User Stories and helping with solutions
• Leading Story walkthroughs and 3 Amigos sessions for the delivery teams
• Doing extensive data analysis, and deriving business insights from data.
• Help with UX and UI designs
• Help with understanding the current and proposed Operational Processes.
• Help with BPM workflows
• Handle a demanding work environment and maintain a very high level of deliverable quality
• Interact with all levels of the business community, seeking approval from all stakeholders of the projects
• Define the scope of a business requirement, decide the approach and produce the specification.
• Drive the analysis effort from start to end for a given area keeping various stakeholders in the loop and getting approvals/sign offs from them.
• Assess and ensure that the solution being delivered is fit for purpose.
• Obtaining agreement on business analysis deliverables and ensuring that they meet all the requirements of the business and tracking these across multiple systems groups
• Working with business leads within the team to identify, define, and clarify the scope / issues in terms of complex business/systems requirements.
• Functionality co-ordination across multiple system projects delivering common, re-usable functionality using service-oriented patterns
• Acting as a proxy customer with the development teams, facilitating open communication between the customer & development team
• Driving user acceptance criteria with the customer
• Co-ordinate with onshore-offshore UK/India business analysts. Work with onshore-offshore UK/India development teams
• Interact & work with third party partners and suppliers
• Stay abreast of key emerging products / industry standards in the Business Analysis arena
• Contribute to BA forum, lead process improvement initiatives

Experience and Qualifications

• 4-5 years of total work experience
• 2 years as a Business Analyst

Essential Skills / Experience

• Strong SQL query writing skills, and be able to do in-depth data analysis.
• Acting as Data owners, understanding end to end journey from business as well as data perspective.
• Analysing the impact of upstream changes, in terms of data and communicating downstream impact as well.
• Creating Data Catalogues
• Experience of business process re-engineering, analysis, user requirement gathering, gap analysis
• Should have experience producing functional specifications documents (FSDs)
• Ability to progress the analysis and drive decisions to close open issue through discussions with multiple stakeholders.
• Must be strong in translating business requirements to technical resources (internal and external) in supporting the project
• Delivery and results focused
• Stakeholder management.
• Strong customer awareness & business focus
• Strong documentation skills of standard SDLC artefacts like SRA/SDS etc.
• Fair idea of Agile methodology, familiar with Stories requirements artefact used in Agile
• Excellent inter-personal, communication, documentation, facilitation & pr sentation skills
• Ideally have experience of e-Business, e-Commerce & Internet technologies, best practices & industry standards
• Ideally have experience of working with business modelling tools e.g. UML and CASE tools e.g. EA, Rational Rose

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Writing API contracts in Swagger
• Practical experience of working with agile/dynamic software development methodologies e.g. DSDM, XP
• Experience of working to a recognised quality methodology e.g. ISO 9000, CMM, PRINCE2, SSADM, FSDM
• Experience of cost benefit analysis, workshop facilitation & business case development
• Experience of working with web technologies
• Proven ability to understand and manage senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge in B2C & B2B Architectures & Models
• Any skill related certifications/formal trainings would be an added advantage

Personal Characteristics

• Enthusiasm for an agile approach to development
• A real desire to do things the right way whilst remaining delivery focused
• Ability to handle multiple assignments concurrently.
• Innovative and enthusiastic about business/financial domain and using it appropriately to solve problems
• Good interpersonal skills, confidence and ability to interact professionally with people at all levels
• Strong customer awareness and business focus
• Motivated, flexible and with a can do approach
• Team player with commitment to achieve team goals
• Disciplined and conscientious approach
• Ability to handle complex and challenging analysis and be able to define a suitable approach to handle the complexity.
• Ability to understand complex integrated enterprise systems layout.
• Ability to prioritise work and deliver in a complex and
• Keen to learn and develop proficiency
• Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing and expanding environment
• Strong desire to continually expand knowledge and learn new skills

About youAbout Fidelity InternationalFidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.5 million customers globally. As a privately-held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 locations and with $611.4 billion in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals.Our Workplace & Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $471 billion on behalf of our clients. By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures.Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We are proud of our inclusive culture and encourage applications from the widest mix of talent, whatever your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social background and more.As a flexible employer, we trust our people to perform their role in the way that works best for them, our clients and our business. We are a disability-friendly company and would welcome a conversation with you if you feel you might benefit from any reasonable adjustments to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process and beyond. Data as at 30 September 2020. Read more at https://www.fidelityinternational.com/Applying to this Job Role: Please note you are only required to upload your CV/Resume to the application screen.,

Keyskills :
functionaldocumentationrequirementsbusiness requirementssoftware development methodologiescost benefit analysisiso 9000business process reengineeringcustomer relationsstatements of work sow