Business Analyst in Belfast

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Belfast-Hybrid

Hours: Permanent-Full Time

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A bit about us:

At BNP Paribas Personal Finance, we’re part of a global bank and are proud to be a Top Employer UK, providing a great place to work in an open and inclusive environment.

We’re here to provide simple and straightforward consumer finance solutions and we work with many well-known retailers and brands to help their customers finance their purchases in a responsible way.

We care about making a positive impact for our colleagues, customers, partners, and the wider community. That’s why we live by our values of we're positive, we’re brave, and we own it.

The Role:

To gather requirements, analyse, document, and propose solutions for large and/or complex business areas including workflow and functional specifications. To assist in the preparation of user and system test plans

Key Responsibilities:

• Collect, understand, and transmit the business requirements following the MoSCoW methodology for the project or the Demand Management (DM), and translate these into functional specifications and detailed test plans.
• Act as the interface between the business, internal Development Team and third parties dependant on the systems that need to be changed.
• Build good working relationships with the internal departments.
• Analyse the requirements and ensure that the business implications for all areas have been considered, challenging the originator as required.
• Provide accurate estimates working with the Development team, Infrastructure team and Technical Architect.
• Analyse and document business processes. Report progress, on a regular basis, to Business owner / Applications Development and Support Manager.
• Dependant on business requirement / size of change act as the IT representative on companywide projects.
• Produce weekly status report and provide these to the Applications Development and Support Manager for projects/Request for Service work assigned to you.
• Document the success of each change as it is implemented into production, and ensure the quality measures are in place e.g., number of incidents, good procedures for operations documented etc.
• For all agreed projects and Request for Service produce System Test deliverables that covers the following to agreed timescales and quality:

1. Test plan and objectives of the changes.
2. Test specifications.
3. Test scripts and results.
4. Test data.
5. Plan and execute the testing.

• Provide documented proof of test results for business sign off.
• Drive towards continual improvement.
• Understand the business process and the impact of change on each of the areas.

Skills & Attributes:

• Good communication skills
• Skills in TFS or Jira
• Ticket Management
• Ability to liaise and influence all levels of management, and work with other departments.
• Agile methodologies
• Ability to make an informed decision based on the information available.
• Ability to prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and make sound decisions in emergency situations, particularly surrounding security.

Could this be you?

BNP Paribas Personal Finance believe it’s a positive attitude and passion to make things happen that matters most.

What’s in it for you?

As well as working for a Top Employer UK 2022 and being part of a team that changes customers’ lives, there are some excellent benefits too including - a competitive salary, a contributory pension scheme, plus life insurance and private medical insurance, not to mention the all-important 25 days holiday each year to enjoy. There are also perks which give you fantastic discounts off eating out, cinema tickets, days out and much more. There are also monthly awards with plenty of opportunities to win vouchers and prizes. Learn more about what it means to be part of the BNP Paribas Personal Finance team here: BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK - YouTube or click here to learn more about careers at BNP Paribas Personal Finance: Careers (bnpparibas-pf.co.uk) .

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BNP Paribas Personal Finance promotes equality of opportunity and is committed to ensure that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.