
Lead Business Analyst - Inbound Triage Bristol, England
Job description
Agile Working Options
About this opportunity
This is a dynamic role working with the Finance Platform Labs, Business Design, and SMEs to analyse and manage Inbound demand into the Platform.
- Leading the assessment of Inbound projects, initiatives and business problems, critically evaluating proposals from a Finance colleague, customer and commercial perspective.
- Focussing on process improvements within the team to optimise working practices.
- Facilitating management of the Inbound Change product backlog and the progression of assigned tickets.
- Working with the Product Owners, Business Design and the Delivery teams to ensure consistent understanding of requirements, timescales and prioritisation.
- Engaging beyond the Platform with project delivery colleagues from the originating business areas, leading and facilitating the dialogue between the Business and Finance to successfully interlock each new initiative.
- Negotiating the transfer of initiatives into the Labs for onward delivery.
- Providing domain knowledge and analysis capability throughout to ensure effective assessment and partnering with the Finance Labs and Divisional and Functional Finance teams.
What you’ll need
- You’ll be dynamic and adaptable with the ability to use and learn new skills and apply knowledge in varying circumstances.
- Great communication skills – to allow you to distil key information from sometimes quite complicated projects, and clearly convey this information to colleagues in Finance and beyond.
- Experience in Facilitation – to be able to lead presentations and other meetings with a variety of different teams and colleagues, from SMEs through to Senior Management.
- Be highly organised to handle triage of several different projects at once, allocating time appropriately and ensuring that all projects receive the appropriate level of service.
- Skilled negotiator, analytical thinker and problem solver, with ability to ensure all parties feel understood and are satisfied with outcome.
And any experience of these would be really useful
- Understanding of analysis and architecture methodologies and techniques and their practical application.
- Exposure to systems thinking, scrum and agile change delivery.
- Modelling - developing, defining & documenting ‘As Is’ & ‘To Be’ process models and data definitions.
- Evidence of building and using internal and external networks to source data and information to enable timely recommendations and advice.
- Engaging and influencing partners, anticipating, clarifying and shaping requirements for the purpose of optimising business outcomes.
- Experience of motivating, mentoring and developing fellow team members to build a high performing team.
About working for us
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
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