Business Analyst

at  Charles Stanley

PRINCIPAL FUNCTION

At Charles Stanley our defining purpose is to help our clients prosper by meeting their goals through the highest standards of holistic wealth and investment management services. As part of the Business Change team you will help us to deliver on our vision and, as a Business Analyst, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the business to deliver quality solutions to the headline challenges of the day.

SKILLS

• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong writing skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels, internally and externally.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Excellent research and analytical skills.

EXPERIENCE

• Understanding of Agile and Waterfall.
• Ideally a recognised BA qualification or the completion of sub-modules within a recognised BA qualification. Alternatively, the firm will support you through appropriate qualifications.
• Business analysis experience, ideally within asset or wealth management.
• Sufficient operational and technical knowledge to be able propose potential target operating model solutions.
• Ability to work in a complex operating environments whilst maintaining the ability to gather requirements from SMEs.

• Define the scope of the activity.
• Champion Change governance procedures and controls.
• Demonstrate curiosity by questioning the current state.
• Undertake analysis from a user-centric viewpoint, utilising user journeys, user personas and data.
• Help stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement in the future state.
• Elicit, analyse, and document requirements using a variety of techniques, with the aim of creating business requirements documents or user stories that are clear, meaningful, and traceable.
• Validate solutions to ensure that they deliver value and meet stakeholder needs.
• Collaborate with developers at refinements meetings, sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing to ensure that solutions are fit for purpose.
• Raise risks, issues and dependencies to project managers where needed.
• Manage stakeholder expectations through open and honest communication.