EU remote
Senior Business Analyst - Deadline 05/11/26
About this role
• Evaluate business context, drivers, and expected outcomes to ensure alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations. • Elicit, validate, and document business needs using structured techniques to ensure clarity and traceability. • Assess current and target business models to identify value streams, capabilities, and operational impacts. • Map and evaluate existing processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities using industry-standard techniques.
• Create visual representations of workflows using standard notations to support analysis, communication, and solution design. • Compare current and desired states to identify capability gaps, improvement areas, and potential solutions. • Convert business requirements into functional specifications that guide solution design and development. • Identify, assess, and document risks related to business processes, systems, and change initiatives, including mitigation strategies.
• Contribute to strategic documentation that defines scope, objectives, value proposition, and governance for initiatives (e.g. business cases, vision documents, charters, and security plans). • Develop clear deliverables such as Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specifications, and User Stories with acceptance criteria. • Define and manage acceptance criteria; support test case design and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure requirements are met.
• Maintain requirements traceability (e.g., story/feature with test case) and manage change requests throughout the lifecycle. • Document non-functional requirements (NFRs) (e.g., performance, security, usability) alongside functional requirements. • Facilitate cross-functional communication among stakeholders, developers, and testers to ensure shared understanding and alignment. SPECIFIC EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGIES • Good knowledge of information systems matters.
• Good knowledge of large organisation administrative business processes. • Experience with enterprise software development in large-scale, complex information systems. • Knowledge of analysis and modelling techniques aligned with BABOK and IEEE 29148, including user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, state diagrams, and entity relationship models. • Good knowledge of BPMN or UML or equivalent modelling approaches.