Business Analyst- Permanent- ILIM

Job Purpose

ILIM have a vacancy for a strong, experienced Business Analyst (BA) to work within the BA Team, which is the key client-facing interface between business and IT. The team has responsibility for the Requirements Gathering, Analysis and Testing of new applications as well as enhancements to and support of existing systems within the ILIM Technical Architecture.  

ILIM are embarking on an exciting programme of change which will see many of our integral applications move to the cloud and our traditional ETL Integration framework will be redeveloped in Azure Data Factory.  In addition, our data warehousing capability will be migrated to Snowflake.

Key Accountabilities

• Act as a point of contact and build relationships with the business to gather, evaluate and clearly document requirements in a collaborative way;
• Liaise closely with developers to translate requirements into software and to plan and execute the test activities to ensure high quality deliverables in an agile framework;
• Be a team player and provide guidance, training and assistance to other members of the team;
• Take ownership of changes from initial assessment through to completion, managing outcomes, escalation points and blockages to ensure efficient delivery of changes;
• Work on a range of projects and small changes that make a real difference across all areas of the business;
• Be self-motivated with the ability to work as an individual or part of a team, taking ownership of issues and showing determination to follow things through, demonstrating good prioritisation and time management skills;
• Grow their knowledge of the business processes and use that to understand and alleviate problems as well as identify opportunities for efficiency improvements.
   

Desired Knowledge / Experience / Skills

ILIM are looking for ambitious individuals with strong potential and high energy, who will quickly become productive in our complex technical environment and have the people skills to perform the customer-facing aspects to the role. 

Suitable candidates will ideally have:

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in a technical, business facing IT role, ideally in the Financial Services Sector.
• Technical writing skills to articulate complex information for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Requirements gathering experience / analysis skills in an IT project framework is desirable.
• Problem solver and analytical thinker.
• Knowledge of SQL for querying databases and retrieving specific information.
• Testing experience would be beneficial.
• Proficiency in using Business Intelligence Tools such as Power BI, Power Automate to transform raw data into visual dashboards to enable decision making.
• Experience using JIRA and Confluence advantageous.
• Experience of agile methodologies beneficial.
• High levels of initiative, flexibility, enthusiasm, involvement, openness, and clarity.

Qualifications

• A third level computing qualification, ideally 2.1 degree or higher.
• Professional Business Analyst certification an advantage
   

Key Competencies