Senior/Manager, IT Business Analyst (Finance)

Job Detail

We’re looking for a Senior IT Business Analyst who embodies our core values of Customer First, Collaboration, Ownership, Impact Driven, and Innovation to join our IT division. In this 18 months contract role, you’ll partner with Finance and IT teams to translate business needs into actionable system solutions, apply Design Thinking to enhance user experience, and identify opportunities to improve processes. You’ll also support Business-As-Usual (BAU) operations and Change Requests (CR), ensuring solutions align with business goals, compliance standards, and RWS’s strategic direction. Job Responsibilities: Strategic Business Analysis & Design Thinking Needs Elicitation: Conduct in-depth business need analysis by proactively engaging with diverse stakeholders to deeply understand their goals, challenges, current processes, and underlying pain points, always maintaining a Customer First perspective. Opportunity Identification: Identify strategic opportunities for business process improvement, automation, and digital transformation initiatives that deliver significant Impact. Facilitation: Expertly facilitate workshops, brainstorming sessions, and stakeholder interviews to uncover root business problems and collaboratively define potential solutions. Requirements Engineering & Documentation Requirements Translation: Translate high-level business needs into detailed, clear, concise, and testable business requirements (both functional and non-functional), user stories, and comprehensive use cases. Documentation Management: Develop and maintain thorough documentation, including Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), functional specifications, process flows, data models, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans, taking Ownership of documentation quality. Alignment & Feasibility: Ensure all requirements are meticulously aligned with organizational strategic objectives and technically feasible within the existing or planned architectural landscape. Process Optimization & Problem Solving Process Analysis & Improvement: Analyze existing business processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas ripe for improvement. Design and recommend optimized future-state processes, leveraging technology and best practices to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness, driving Innovation and Impact. Solution Engineering: Proactively identify and analyze complex business and technical problems, breaking them down into manageable components. Collaborate with technical architects, developers, and other IT professionals to engineer viable, sustainable, and scalable technical solutions that directly meet business requirements and strategic goals. Solution Evaluation: Evaluate potential solutions for their overall impact, technical feasibility, and strict alignment with enterprise architecture standards. Stakeholder Engagement & Quality Assurance: Liaison & Communication: Act as the primary liaison between business units and IT teams, ensuring clear, consistent, and proactive communication across all project phases. Expectation Management: Manage expectations of diverse stakeholders, including senior management, end-users, technical teams, and external vendors, fostering strong Collaboration. Negotiation & Consensus: Effectively negotiate and mediate between potentially conflicting stakeholder needs to achieve consensus and maintain project momentum. Vendor Management: Oversee the Annual Maintenance Support (AMS) team to ensure timely resolution and delivery of Incidents (IN), Service Requests (SR), Change Requests (CR), and Problems (PB) in accordance with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Conduct periodic reviews of support tickets to identify trends and drive continuous process improvement. Testing Support: Support the creation of comprehensive test plans and detailed test cases based on defined requirements. Assist actively in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, rigorously ensuring that implemented solutions meet the specified business needs and deliver a positive Customer First experience.