Business Analyst (with Project Management Responsibilities)

PROJECT INFORMATION:

Industry: banking

Location: Warsaw/Krakow (hybrid model)

Remuneration: 150 pln/h +VAT

Type of assignment: B2B

ABOUT ROLE:

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as Business Analyst (with some Project Manager responsibilities) to support definition, prioritization, development and release of new products as well as developing, enhancing and championing improvements existing products. Ensuring that they are competitive and meet the needs of the clients.

We are looking for someone who can understand the application of technology well. The ideal candidate will have with a technical background allied with a track record of managing successful technical products, and a good understanding and rapport with engineers as our prime customer base.

To ensure success in this role, you should be experienced in defining, delivering complex technical products and solutions; managing product backlogs and leading cross-functional product delivery teams, and have extensive experience in Agile environments and knowledge of cloud-based API platforms.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with Business to elicit, analyse, clarify and validate requirements for changes to the subject system.
• Ensure value-addition to the organization by building comprehensive banking domain, knowledge base.
• Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts and help identifying the underlying business needs from the user request.
• Deliver standard detailed requirement documents including technically feasible and realistic functional and non- functional requirements.
• Provide support for IT teams to thoroughly understand business requirements for solution proposal, development and testing purposes.
• Provide ongoing consultancy to Business.
• Provide training on features to other teams, e.g. testing team.
• Provide ongoing consultancy on Production issues.
• Manage the project approach and build stakeholder buy-in around the project plan, commitments, and changes. Organize programmes and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of projects.
• Support a team with a global array of talents and responsibilities to manage delivery proactively, balancing scope, schedule, resourcing, dependencies, communications, and budget.
• Work with the IT teams to drive improvements in productivity through backlog management, maturity in the use of Agile methodologies and corresponding management of dependencies.
• Monitor and report progress, issues, dependencies, risks to the programme management, internal stakeholders and/or steering committees. Make recommendations to influence decision-making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realization.
• Help in the development and running of the programme management office or project management practice.
• Ensure adherence to standard controls and drive teams to achieve compliance and framework, capability management, risk management, security controls and technology architecture designs.
• Establish effective governance and controls, in line with Business Transformation Framework and coordination of cross-technology teams across Global Business/Global Functions delivery.
• Manage the local engineering team

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have min 2+ years’ experience in large scale project or programme management.
• Proven experience in the banking business environment or an IT role.      
• Basic understanding of how technology adds value to the business and ultimately the end customer.      
• Some analysis experience and knowledge of structured techniques and standards.      
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly build relationships with key stakeholders.      
• A good knowledge of IT, software, operations and networks.
• Knowledge to manage projects powered by Java, React, Oracle, MongoDB technologies.
• Proven stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of infrastructure and technical solution design and delivery processes for software product delivery.
• Proven risk and issue management skills
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Understanding of portfolio and programme management.
• Proven experience in working with a globally dispersed team.
• Excellent communication skills
• Good communication in English

Nice to Have:

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and OKRs would be advantageous, as well as experience working within a globally dispersed team.