Kennedys is looking for an experienced, proactive Business Analyst & critical thinker. Someone who is comfortable meeting & interviewing senior business stakeholders, discussing and recording their views & eliciting their requirements together with those of their subject matter experts; and where necessary, negotiating equitable requirements' compromises between the stakeholders and the in-house & vendor system development teams.
Team
The Kennedys Systems & Solutions team is responsible for the delivery of a responsive, effective and timely system solutions to the firm's employees and clients.
They devise and implement operational processes and procedures in order to provide reliable and available systems to the firm.
Our Systems & Solutions product management team comprises experts focused on internal and external applications to provide guidance on procurement, adoption, and lead the innovation of internally developed systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Eliciting, validating & maintaining high quality requirements (catalogue & requirements documents)
- Documenting & validating business process models in BPMN (via MS Visio)
- Lead and undertake formal analysis and validation of requirements for new systems and enhancements to existing systems
- Support Product Managers to chair user community feedback, share best practices and improve adoption
- Lead scrum ceremonies in the absence of Product Owner or Scrum Master.
Required Experience
- A minimum of two years as a Business Analyst; ideally in legal and/or financial services but not essential
- Creating and maintaining backlogs in MS Azure DevOps or similar
- Current State (As-Is) & Future State (To-Be) process mapping, gap analysis and transformation / business change initiatives
- Working within SDLC and Agile framework; contributing to ceremonies, maintaining the product backlog, producing, validating & maintaining high quality requirements
- Experience of analysing and producing requirements for integration with 3rd party applications and services
- Experience of analysing and producing requirements for Data migration
- Leading workshops at all levels
- Producing documentation and leading training sessions as part of implementation, adoption and retention
- Experience of working with QA teams and producing and executing test plans
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills at all levels.
Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.
*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.