Position: Business Analyst
Company: Alcor
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00+02:00

Argus is a fast-growing global B2B media company providing essential information on commodity markets. As a business, we continue to grow and evolve, adding new markets, new services, new delivery options and improved analytical tools.

Job Purpose
This is a hands-on role where your focus is on gathering requirements, writing stories, crafting mock-ups, defining business processes, identifying improvements and communicating with business partners to ensure delivery of the right product at the right time.

Key responsibilities
• Liaise with business owners to engineer requirements
• Facilitate workshops and deliver presentations to capture requirements
• Create user stories ensuring accuracy and clarity
• Develop scenarios for front-end web, mobile and analytical user experiences
• Produce lo-fi designs and proof of concepts
• Develop workflow models, processes, applications, and data dictionaries
• Review features with the developers and QA team
• Keep the Product backlog up-to-date and prioritised ahead of development
• Attend regular user forums to drive product improvements
• Support users with product knowledge during training, UAT and go live
• Strengthen the delivery team’s working relationships with business partners.

Skills and Experience
• Good communication skills and ability to facilitate workshops
• Strong IT research, software analysis and design skills
• Experience of working in an agile environment
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Knowledge of data modelling
• Solid experience with SQL, Excel
• Understanding of web applications including RESTful APIs
• Experience working with remote development teams
• Experience with Balsamiq, Axure or other lo-fi design tools

Team structure: 20 people including PM, BA, Lead developer, 7 developers, 4 QA specialists, QA Lead, UX Designer. As well it is planned to hire 3 developers for this team. This team is working on 3 different streams.
BA will work closely with Kerry (Product Manager) and Josh (Business Analyst) from London.

Sales points
• Training budget
• Professional growth
• Challenging tasks (building a new area of work)
• Development of new functionality
• Opportunities to get hands-on experience in data visualization

About Argus Media
Argus is an independent media organisation with almost 1100 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 26 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences.

Benefits and social package

- Up to 25 business days/year of vacation;
- Up to 3 business days/year may be used as routine healthcare (no medical certificate is needed) of sick leave, in case it goes beyond 5 business days, medical certificate should be provided;
- Official weekends and holidays according to Ukrainian legislation;
- Flexible working conditions;
- Medical and dental insurance coverage after a successful probation period;
- Udemy access, English lessons.

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