IT Projects Business Analysis

Contract Role: IT Projects Business Analysis

Contract Location: London Hybrid

Contract Duration: 8 months

Contract Start Date: Immediate

Contract Classification: Inside IR35

Daily Rate breakdown Traditional Daily Rate: £700

Agreed Contract Rate (ACR): £540.09

Equivalent Annual Salary: £140,424.06

Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers - Rockford Pay

Key Responsibilities

• Capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements and translate into functionality.
• Assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impact.
• Assess and model processes, data flows, and technology to understand the current value and issues, and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Create compelling business cases and establish approval, funding and prioritization.
• Create / update clear documentation of requirements to align with the solution over the project lifecycle.
• Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs through testing and scope changes, to final solution.
• Interact with software suppliers, designers and developers to understand software limitations, deliver elements of system and database design, and ensure that business requirements and use cases are handled.
• Configure and document software and processes, using agreed standards and tools.
• Create acceptance criteria and validate that solutions meet business needs, through defining and coordinating testing.
• Create and present compelling business cases to justify solution value and establish approval, funding and prioritization.
• Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and control Business Analysis activities on projects within agreed parameters of cost, time and quality.
• Lead stakeholder management activities and large design sessions.
• Lead teams to complete business analysis on projects.
• Set the direction for business analysis activities and propose improvements.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Agile project experience
• Good understanding and experience of the Agile frameworks and tools
• Experience working in Agile projects and educating stakeholders including Product Owners and Business partners in Agile ways of working
• 7 - 10 years in IT & team leadership experience.

Desirable skills:

• CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) or PMI-PBA certification preferred. Lean Practitioner training and experience are an asset. Agile certifications/trainings preferred.