Business Analyst United Kingdom
Job description
Role Profile – Business Analyst/Functional Consultant
About the role:
Working at PSL, you will be part of an Agile team that respect each other’s skills whilst striving to achieve excellence. PSL relies on our Business Analysts/Functional Consultants to ensure clients get the most out of our systems. We require our Business Analysts//Functional Consultants to have a rare blend of domain knowledge (business and technical) and superb communications skills to engage with clients at all stages of the lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participating in and facilitating workshops as part of project initiation.
- Collaborate with clients to gather and understand requirements.
- Capturing requirements in an unambiguous way to aid the development process.
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- Create and maintain epics, features and user stories in Jira in line with PSL standards.
- Work closely with Product Owner to understand the business needs and goals in order to prioritise the backlog.
- Collaborate with the scrum team in order to identify options and propose alternative solutions to meet client business requirements.
- Work closely with the scrum team to form the Acceptance Criteria and using methodologies such as Business Driven Development (BDD).
- Perform system gap analysis on the Phoebus application where required.
- Work with Product Owner and/or Project Manager to manage client expectations.
- Support the estimation process, working with the scrum team to produce ballpark estimates and/or story points as part of the sprint refinement sessions
- Review and update client release notes.
- Support clients in UAT phase.
- Communicate releases to PSL support team before going live.
Knowledge skills & Experience
Experience of business transformation or change management.- Demonstrable experience as a business analyst/functional consultant working in an Agile environment
- Working within an agile team alongside the Product owner.
- Knowledge of development of IT applications or understanding of technology driven projects.
- Financial lending services experience (mortgages, unsecured lending, commercial lending, deposits, asset finance, origination and servicing) either within a financial service company or a supplier to the industry.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good working knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
About You
- You will actively seek opportunities for improvement
- Keep up to date with industry sector developments
- Actively seek improvements to processes and systems, contributing to our culture of continuous improvement.
- PSL Business Analysts/Functional Consultants need to ask the right questions to identify solutions to real world problems. You will own requirements from cradle to grave and are as happy working with our clients as they are with their PSL delivery team.
- You will report into the Practice Lead for Product Management and be integral in all aspects of the Product lifecycle.
The following are desirable:
- Atlassian toolset exposure (Jira / Confluence)
- BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or ISEB Diploma in Business Analysis
Reward - PSL Perks
Private Health care scheme inc Dental care
£350.00 per annum paid with the PSL Wellbeing Choice benefit
Life assurance scheme which pays 4x salary
Employee Assistance Programme
Hybrid working arrangements
Contributory Pension scheme matched up to 5%
25 days Holiday, plus 8 bank holidays each year
Flexible choice benefits including holiday purchase
EV salary sacrifice scheme through Octopus Electric Vehicles
Discretionary annual salary reviews
Discretionary Bonus scheme
Development opportunities across the organisation
Free eye test & money towards glasses for VDU users
Long Service and birthday gifts
ON SITE PERKS
Games Room
Onsite training academy
- ️ Free drinks and snacks provided for all employees
Cycle to work scheme
Social events paid by PSL
Staff Recognition & gifts for our DONE awards scheme
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