Business Analyst

• Completion of tasks assigned by the Project Manager and Workstream Lead, to agreed timescales, scope and quality measures
• Management of stakeholders and project staff, including surveillance IT teams, vendors, users, project sponsors, managers of other projects and other departments within the Client.
• Management of workstream activities: prioritizing work activities and issues arising, arranging workshops, tracking progress, promoting collaboration, and escalating issues which cannot be addressed by the workstream staff.
• Manage all phases of project lifecycle: documentation of requirements and acceptance criteria, analysis, design, implementation, designing tests, managing test exercises, coordinating fixes, release management, go-live, user support
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant internal policies and control standards, and external regulatory requirements, including the management of operational risk and adherence to the Group's standards of ethical behaviour
• Using and adapting the Bank Disciplined Agile methodology

The role-holder will be able to demonstrate these areas of skill

• Communication & management
• Clear and succinct in writing and in person; in order to influence stakeholders to make decisions and take action
• Adaptable to manage staff in different locations and from different cultures, keeping the team engaged, motivated and effective
• Structured, transparent, logical and self-organized in documentation, time management, coordinating and carrying out multiple tasks
• Resilience & independence
• Ability to respond pro-actively and constructively to set-backs and challenges; and appetite to work at a fast pace.
• A willingness to make pragmatic and constructive proposals, negotiate compromise where possible, and proceed on limited facts where appropriate.
• Tenacity, patience and perseverance in the face of bureaucracy and in a context of inefficiency.
• Experience with SQL DB
• Knowledge about trade lifecycle