Description
Key Responsibilities
- Take responsibility for business analysis activities on the project, planning and managing the analysis work to fit in with wider project plans.
- Manage the elicitation, documentation, prioritisation, validation, and sign-off of business and technical requirements and their acceptance criteria.
- Work with stakeholders to analyse, model, and document finance-related business processes, data flows, systems, and system integration.
- Plan, manage, and facilitate on-site, hybrid, and remote meetings, interviews, workshops, and other business analysis activities.
- Analyse information gathered from multiple stakeholders, pro-actively identifying gaps, resolving conflicts, and challenging constructively when needed.
- Work with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria for requirements.
- Collaborate with the IT systems lead, data and enterprise architects to ensure that analysis outputs meet with ITS standards.
- Prepare user acceptance testing scenarios and test cases.
- Support user acceptance testing activities, liaising between users, stakeholders, and development teams.
- Collaborate with the project manager to identify and log project risks and contribute to project highlight reporting as required.
- Ensure that the analysis adheres to all relevant policies and systems, ensuring any audit requirements and institutional standards are met.
- Set up and lead multi-disciplinary groups as and when required.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders throughout the project.
- Present findings, updates, or reports both verbally and in written format, to key stakeholders, senior managers, the project team, and/or project board.
Profile
- Proven experience as a business analyst working on previous complex technical migration/transformation projects.
- Previous experience of carrying out business analysis on projects involving finance/ERP systems and for cloud migrations.
- Significant experience of systems and process analysis including producing diagrams, maps and models, documenting data flows and system integration.
- Previous experience of all aspects of business analysis including requirements elicitation, documentation, prioritisation and validation, definition of acceptance criteria and data analysis.
- Experience of facilitating on-site, hybrid and remote meetings, workshops, and interviews.
- Experience of working on multiple workstreams/projects at the same time within a complex programme.
Desirable Skills/Experience
- Experience as a business analyst in a Higher Education environment.
- Experience of Unit 4/Agresso.
Job Details
- This role is an initial contract through to the end of July 2025 but may be extended.
- It is a hybrid role requiring 60% of the time on-site in Liverpool with 40% of the time remote.
- It is also outside IR35.
Client Details
- The client sits within the Higher Education space.