Senior Business Analyst

The role is to work directly with external client organization to investigate business situations, and then identify and evaluate options for improvements to systems and operations. The business analyst should apply appropriate techniques (requirements management, process improvement, functional analysis, etc) to define, manage and support implementation of effective solutions to business issues.

You will join the multicultural global team, helping us shaping our product family roadmap.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to plan and facilitate effective workshops
• Investigates operational requirements, problems, and opportunities,
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, and identifies options for consideration
• Identifies potential benefits, and available options for consideration
• Works with clients/users in defining acceptance criteria
• Involvement in scoping and business priority-setting for change initiatives of small/medium size and complexity
• Selects appropriate techniques for the elicitation of detailed requirements taking into account the nature of the required changes, established practice and the characteristics and culture of those providing the requirements
• Obtains formal agreement by stakeholders and recipients to scope and requirements and establishes a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence
• Identifies requests for and the application of changes to baselined requirements
• Identifies the impact on business requirements of interim (e.g. migration) scenarios as well as the required end position
• Support the requirements elicitation process where necessary, identifying what stakeholder input is required
• Assists the investigation and application of changes to programme scope.
• Assesses, analyses, develops, documents and implements changes based on requests for change.

Key Requirements

• Minimum of 2+ years' experience within the IT industry in a BA client-facing role.
• Client-facing experience is essential including delivering presentations and product demonstrations, running workshops and managing client's expectations

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and able to communicate confidently and effectively at any level of the organization.
• An understanding of compliance processes and workflows within the financial services industry advantageous
• Good knowledge of IT systems, architectures and terminology
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Any Business Analysis framework certifications would be a plus

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.