Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Business Analyst to join our UK&I Portfolio Management Office (PMO). The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in understanding defining and scoping complex project requirements, ensuring that projects are delivered efficiently and effectively to meet our business objectives. You will work closely with project managers, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams across the organisation to analyse business processes, gather requirements, develop solutions, and understand solution impacts that drive project success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with project stakeholders to understand business needs and gather project requirements.
- Analyse and model business processes to identify opportunities for improvement or innovation. Act as a thought leader for these business processes.
- Conduct thorough documentation and baselining of current processes and systems and develop comprehensive 'to-be' maps to facilitate broad-based transformation and the achievement of strategic objectives.
- Work closely with the PMO and project teams to prioritise project requirements and ensure they are integrated and sequenced into project plans effectively.
- Ensure requirement dependencies are fully understood, documented, and managed in the project plan.
- Facilitate communication between project stakeholders and the project team to ensure a clear understanding of scope, project requirements and objectives.
- Work closely with change management to conduct impact analysis for project changes so that right change management approaches are planned and applied.
- Assist in the development and implementation of project management methodologies, standards, and tools to drive efficiency in the PMO.
- Monitor project progress and performance, providing insights and recommendations to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and budget.
- Set scope control processes within the project lifecycle, which is managed via quality gates and project assurance. Partner with the PMO and project managers to ensure scope of project is fully protected and change controlled.
- Participate in project reviews and post-implementation evaluations, capturing lessons learned and best practices for future projects.
Qualifications:
- 5 or more years of proven experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within a PMO environment.
- Strong understanding of project management principles and methodologies.
- Excellent analytical, planning, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with all levels of stakeholders and teams and translate data into actionable insights
- Experience in process documentation and reporting
- Experience in business process modelling and requirements management tools.
- Ability to work in ambiguity and drive for business clarity in scope of work.
