Senior Business Analyst – Infrastructure – Financial Services – Reigate / Remote – £60K + 20% Bonus
An excellent opportunity has arisen with a market leading FTSE 250 Financial Services organisation, who are embarking on a number of exciting, IT focussed, change programmes. The Infrastructure Business Analyst will work primarily with the Technology Operations teams and Architects on projects, small change, support tickets, business as usual activities, continuous improvement and process improvements. They will also be expected to liaise with other business units and support their Infrastructure requirements. Our client have a flexible approach to home working but will require occasional trips to the Reigate HQ.
Responsibilities
- Input to the group operating model by providing updates where changes are found. Encourage the use of the operating model as a tool for analysis (where appropriate).
- Contribute to the improvement of methods used. Undertake, programme and project level, analysis and design using the agreed team framework and methods. Delivery of which will be measured by agreed KPIs.
- Undertake project level feasibility / assessments of change initiatives using appropriate methods and tools and within the agreed framework and principles e.g. using capability based impact approach.
- Appreciate the key elements of the group strategy.
- Contribute to the yearly business planning cycle by providing updates on work-in-progress if required.
- Where appropriate, accountable for maintaining design principles (or taking action where principles broken) for programme/project level change.
- Work in congruence with Agile principles wherever possible.
- Keep up-to-date with the change methodology, work within it and where possible suggest improvements to the relevant analysis and design stages.
- Accountable for identifying and taking action to maintain and improve competence areas as identified together with the line manager.
Requirements
- Strong experience (at least 5 years) as a Business Analyst working within an Agile change environment and with different Agile frameworks and/or methodologies e.g. SCRUM, Kanban, SAFe.
- Excellent analytical and communication skills and have at their disposal a wide range of tools and techniques to help elicit functional and non-functional requirements and articulate these into VSTS backlogs.
- Possess a good overall knowledge of IT Infrastructure i.e. Network, Database, Storage, Telecoms etc. This should include Microsoft Technologies such as Active Directory, Servers, Virtualisation, Azure etc. and be comfortable discussing technical aspects with the team.
- Broad experience (at least 2 years) in the Financial Services sector and ability to apply this experience to the needs of the business.
Package
- £60k basic salary
- 20% bonus
- 25 days leave + bank holidays (holiday buying scheme)
- Pension Contribution (up to 5% from you 10 % from them)
- Private medical cover with Bupa
- + Excellent benefits package.
Senior Business Analyst – Infrastructure – Financial Services – Reigate / Remote – £60K + 20% Bonus
