Business Analyst / Project Manager

We have an excellent opportunity for a Business Analyst / Project Manager with the experience, energy, passion and drive to support strategic projects and lead process and system improvement initiatives across our client’s business. The successful contractor will be required to facilitate business and system change; helping deliver optimum process efficiency and effectiveness? The strategic projects will cover a wider variety of gaols from driving new project commencements, system improvements as well as digital transformation projects. The successful candidate will be educated to degree level and have 6-8 years of experience and ideally a background  in a Tier 1 Consulting  organisation. A proven background of delivery in Semi State or Public Sector environments would be a distinct advantage. The role is primarily remote with one day attendance on site required weekly

The key responsibilities include: 

• Identify areas for improvement, understand business need, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current processes especially with respect to Data Protection / Data Management / Data Lifecycle within the organisation
• Assist the business stakeholders in prioritising business requirements and defining new business processes
• Identify and drive agreement of scope with senior stakeholders
• Conduct workshops and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into functional requirements / specifications
• Document agreed outcomes in high quality and clear documentation
• Responsible for liaising with technical team during the implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects.
• Responsible for validating solution delivered and ensure it is fit for business purpose.
• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to technical and non technical stakeholders at all levels during the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change
• Drive deliverables to completion within challenging timelines ensuring collaboration and effective communication with all stakeholders
• Work effectively with stakeholders located both locally and remotely
• Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the specification document have been delivered and are ready for release
• Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process. Where necessary devise detailed cut over plans to address potential operational impacts at cutover
• Some/ Limited travel may be required

Personal Attributes

• Strong Communication (verbal & written) and Interpersonal Skills
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment
• Proven ability to elicit requirements and define project priorities
• Demonstrable ability to think “outside of the box” and innovate
• Proven ability to drive and manage change
• Excellent stakeholder Management and Influencing skills
• Capable of working with vendors and partners to drive results
• Strong Commercial acumen