Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Euroclear

Belgium or Poland

Role & Responsibilities

• Act as the key interface between business stakeholders and IT communities on topics that can impact other tribes and/or divisions.
• Facilitate communication between business and IT communities.
• Develop effective relationships with business units, divisions, or groups of users.
• Evaluate new applications against business functional and non-functional requirements.
• Understand the business drivers behind initiatives/changes and their added value to the organization.
• Contribute to delivering new systems or modifications through business analysis.
• Understand the needs of internal and external clients, mainly through interviews.
• Question and challenge the needs of internal and external clients.
• Identify, describe, and validate business solutions to meet end users’ requirements.
• Document business requirements in a structured form that can be translated into functional and technical specifications.
• Consider non-functional requirements such as computer equipment capacity, security, auditability, limitations, operating time, and desired results.
• Consider the business implications of applying technology to the current business environment.
• Consider the impact on internal teams and external clients.
• Assist in determining which business requirements can and should be automated and how these automated functions integrate into business and IT processes.
• Provide advice on business analysis techniques and methodologies.
• Validate functional designs derived from business analysis.
• Support the preparation and execution of testing phases and during the roll-out phase (e.g., client documentation).
• Facilitate the implementation and deployment of system changes to stakeholders by providing support, advice, and guidance throughout the project life cycle.
• Be the guardian of the project business scope.
• Support IT colleagues through the project development process, including testing and deployment phases.
• Produce Business Analysis, Business Impact Analysis.
• Describe business processes.
• Support Product Owner in Product Backlog Items (PBIs) writing and prioritization.
• Clarify PBIs until ready.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (listening, writing, and presenting) at all levels, from team members to senior management.
• Strong negotiation and conflict management skills.
• Interested in creating a "win-win" situation with and being close to internal and external clients.
• Critical thinking skills (evaluate multiple options to settle on a solution).
• Very good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent documentation and presentation skills.
• Creative, flexible, and willing to continuously change, evolve, and improve software development processes.
• Time management.
• Flexibility to quickly adapt in case of unexpected change of priority.
• Capacity to work autonomously and in close team collaboration.
• Self-learner.
• Proactive and good team player.
• Fluent in English (all communication channels).

Technical Skills and Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline with IT focus.
• Minimum of 5 years of Business Analyst experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of Banking area from IT perspective.
• Good understanding of the capital market, bond issuance and pre-issuance multi-parties workflow, settlement and custody activities, and the underlying business risks.
• Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, Elicitation and Collaboration, Requirements Life Cycle Management, Strategy Analysis, Requirements Analysis.
• Strong knowledge of Agile principles and practices and capacity to understand specific needs or requirements to apply skills/knowledge.
• Preferred experience within large-sized Agile implementations.
• Proven expertise in defining Epics, Features, User stories, and PBIs.
• SQL knowledge with the ability to build queries using joins.
• Experience in Functional and Automation Testing would be an asset.
• Ability to read code would be a plus.