- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Ability to build relationships with people at all levels of the organization
- Support projects in defining solutions which deliver planned benefits, control scope and remain focused on delivery of benefits
- Be able to clearly identify requirements for change
- Clarify, define and evaluate business problems, opportunities and elicit requirements for change from business stakeholders
- Support assessment of commercial viability of proposed change
· Document & analyse requirements: 25%
- Ensure requirements (covering business, functional, non-functional) are documented, organised, prioritised
- Assures quality of outputs generated by other less experienced business analyst team members on any given investigation/project/programme
· Manage & communicate requirements:
- Manage & communicate requirements throughout the project’s lifecycle
- Ensure requirements and solution scope remain aligned and focused on delivery of business benefits throughout the project
· Assess solutions and business impact: 5%
- Support selection of appropriate solutions (RFI / RFP) which deliver value
- Validate proposed technical solution designs and test approaches to ensure alignment with requirements and business needs
- Assess impact of proposed solution on the organisation (people, organisation, processes, metrics & systems etc) and support business readiness
- Analysis Strategy & Project Support: 20%
- Determine appropriate approach to conducting analysis for projects (or investigative studies) and agree approach with project stakeholders
- Support project delivery activities, and as required support project manager and project owner in readiness for change
- Develop knowledge: 5%
- Build knowledge of assigned business units and their associated functions, processes, systems & technologies as well as VA corporate strategies
- Build knowledge of business analysis, methods and techniques and contribute to analysis VA analysis practice led initiatives
