Hired_Business Analyst

Job Description

* About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good. Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role Responsibilities Solves organisational information problems and requirements through detailed analysis. Validates that those requirements are realised through discovery, development, testing, release and delivery phases collaboratively across the multiple workstreams and DPO/GDOs.Key roles and responsibilities
• Understand the main business drivers for success; Acquire knowledge of the business and regional footprints; Awareness of the functional roles within HR, their interaction and involvement in the high-level business processes;
• Understand and ensure alignment to the WMA service Model aligned to the wider HR Target Operating Model
• Manage complex business reporting requirements from gathering to refinement to realisation; looking for opportunities to standardise and simplify by critically prioritising between regulatory and legal requirements against business processes
• Documentation of detailed requirements based on technical build and business user standard operating procedures.
• Understanding and challenging design based on the business case benefits of solutions via reporting or via the core tool managing change requests through structured programme governance
• Set the standards for all projects to follow, user story creation, impact assessment etc. through business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis;
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from low level information to a general understanding and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs;
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with business stakeholders and IT teams to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver the Functional and Non-Functional requirements in the stories
• Lead or contribute to underlying business process discovery, analysis, reengineering and documentation. Matching process design with business goals, user stories/experience and functional capability
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plan
• Guide the product owner in creating user stories and acceptance criteria, in a clear and unambiguous style
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into functional and non-functional requirements
• Serve as a conduit between the customer community (Key Stakeholders and end-users) and the software development team through which requirements flow; Ensure developers understand the context of the changes and impact to any downstream and upstream systems
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs; Understand system technical limitations at a high level
• Highlight risks to the PM before they become issues so they can be tracked
• Review SIT defects prior to the start of UAT in conjunction with Scrum Delivery Manager
• Involvement in UAT test phase; helping with or even leading on test strategy creation, guiding users and supporting /analysing user queries
Purpose:
• The role will be responsible for leading the Reporting Business Analysis activities within the WMA product development space. The candidate will be responsible for analysing business reporting requirements (user stories), providing impact assessments, dependencies and functional requirements to marry with the user stories in synergy with the strategic future target operating model for the workforce management analytics team. Other responsibilities include assisting with process discovery, analysis, reengineering/redesign and documentation. Also guiding developers and testers throughout the SDLC phases and tracing requirements from development to delivery, validating that the delivered system is fit for purpose.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Agile methodology and practice
• Understanding of Analytics service models and technology platforms
• Jira, Confluence, Trello
• Advanced MS Office Suite Skills including SharePoint
Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
• Proven ability to work within a team environment
• Experience of working in a reporting & analytics team either in a projects or business as usual capacity
• Understanding of Analytics service models and technology platforms
• Agile methodology and practice
• Understanding of Jira and confluence
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills and ownership of issues
• Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills
• Ability to make good/sound decisions and use independent judgment
• Time management skills
• Negotiation and influencing skills, particularly across differing stakeholder levels
• Experience working within Human Resources in the financial industry preferable
• Have worked in an international, dynamic organisation
• Advanced MS Office Suite Skills including SharePoint
• Excellent communication skills oral, written and presentation
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and ability to adapt to different styles according to target audience
• Ability to communicate complex information to stakeholders, internal resources
Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions. To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

Keyskills :
customer relationsdocumentationrequirementsfunctionalbusiness requirementsms office suitesubject matter expertsms officeuse casesuser storiestest strategybusiness case