Position: Business Analyst
Company: AboutHR recruiting agency
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Responsibilities:**
Collect, understand, and convey business requirements for a given project or programme
Find and communicate pragmatic technical solutions to large and/or complex needs
Produce detailed business and functional requirements, and assist in the development of technical requirements working directly with Internal and External technology teams
Document user stories in JIRA which enable developers and test team to efficiently deliver high quality software to meet business requirements
Lead Backlog refinement
Co-ordinate business SMEs in a user acceptance testing (UAT) capacity to validate that their requirements have been delivered
Work with Operations teams (IT and Business) to ensure smooth knowledge transfer and transition to Business as Usual (BAU) state
Support for agile ways of working (daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, planning, sprint reporting, sprint demos
Review of delivery requests and defect reports – impact assessment/ prioritisation/ communication
Collaborate with Product Owner on producing workstream roadmap and prioritising backlog

**Requirements:**
Advanced Business Analysis skills
Demonstrated experience implementing business and technology projects and delivering change
Experience of the full Software Development Life Cycle including Agile methodologies
Use of formal Analysis methodology, tools and technical e.g. UML, use cases, user stories with acceptance criteria, wire framing
Some understanding of REST APIs and their specification documents
Some experience of data analysis and data mapping
Experience of working closely with software developers
Ability to elicit pragmatic solutions, whilst maximising business benefit
Comfortable determining requirements through review of technical integration specs / XML file specs etc.
Excellent written & verbal communication skills
Confident liaising with senior stakeholders, managing their expectations and leveraging their time effectively
Ability to deliver in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities
Effective team working

**Nice to have:**
Publishing of services to partners/third parties via API’s
Consumption of third-party API’s
OBIE Open Banking and FAPI security framework
Regulatory related projects (e.g., PCI DSS, GDPR, PSD2)
Payment schemes and processing (e.g. Faster Payments, Swift, Direct Debit, SEPA)
Technical skills – e.g. any coding experience/ software development, Open API