Business Analyst 6 months Manchester Background to Role: Consults with stakeholders of all levels of the organisation to analyze, define, and prioritize business requirements and functional and operational specifications for a functional work stream. Formulates and defines program scope and objectives for the work stream with thorough understanding of business processes in a specific business domain. Represents the business to all areas in resolving issues and developing both business and technology solutions. May lead staff on specific projects. Business Analyst Duties: Elicits, challenges, and prioritizes business requirements; translates into functional design and use case models. Develops project scope and identifies objectives, constraints, issues, risks and assumptions for large programmes, and escalates as necessary. Is accountable for overall delivery of assigned functional workstream on a large-scale programme. Aligns resources, seeks input from key constituents, and manages others to achieve desired results. Assists in developing implementation/conversion strategy and implementation plan. Manages scope and change throughout the initiative utilizing formal change control and requirements traceability. Develops process and workflow maps as necessary, recommending enhancements needed to procedures and controls. Works with business and technology teams to develop technology roadmap strategy when appropriate. Ensure deliverables are completed on time, within budget and with minimum defects. Adhere to methodologies adopted by the Firm and ensures a smooth transition of product knowledge to all relevant parties in business as usual including business partners for approval. Conduct status meetings and facilitate issue resolution and risk mitigation. Provide Programme level reporting to senior staff. Coordinate and manage scoping of assigned data fields to inform effective business decision making; leading the business and operations teams to remediate gaps in identified data fields. This will include scheduling, preparing and running workshops as needed. Recording actions, decisions and assumptions, and inputting data into the programme traceability tool. Provides technical consultation concerning business implications of complex application development projects. Supports testing of new or enhanced applications and/or systems and provides guidance to junior team members on complex testing tasks including case development, requirement traceability analysis, test preparation, script writing, and functional test execution. Uses deep expertise and broad knowledge of regulatory and legal requirements,corporate policies involving risk and control, to support the development of improved business processes. Programme Specific Experience/Knowledge (Preferred): Knowledge and expertise (of two or more) of the following areas: Corporate governance Information technology oversight Outsourcing & Inter affiliate agreements Enterprise resiliency/business continuity tests Information technology - risk assessments, strategy, architecture, security, assets repository Risk appetite statements/metrics Experience of process improvement in a technology driven environment. Experience of updating governance documents and collating metrics. Good understanding of effective risk management and control. Experience of working on remediation programmes following regulatory inspections is advantageous. Education/Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in business or technical-related discipline, or equivalent work experience required. Formal project management qualification; six sigma and experience in Agile methodologies is advantageous Good knowledge of custody, operations, technology change and related business activities. A depth of experience in data management and reporting; process and workflow mapping; writing and managing business requirements and functional specifications. Knowledge and experience of working within the regulatory environment, and how that impacts Business areas Strong judgment and leadership skills combined with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Strong planning and project organization skills. Strong negotiation, decision making, problem solving and influencing skills. Ability to effectively prioritize and multi-task in a high pressure, high volume environment. Ability to run both small and large scale workshops and working groups with varying levels of stakeholder seniority. Ability to analyse medium to large scale data and information across multiple sources. extensive of experience in managing senior stakeholders First class communication skills, both verbal and written. Literacy in the following software packages: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel (high level of skill essential), Visio, Project (latter not essential) , Access (advantageous, not essential) Flexibility in terms of both working hours and work undertaken will be required. TO APPLY - PLEASE REPLY WITH AN UP TO DATE CV Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered. Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly. Pontoon is an employment consultancy and operates as an equal opportunities employer.