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Fitsol is an information technology and software development company with its headquarters in Manchester. With our offices in London, USA, UAE and a global delivery centre in India, Fitsol provides one-stop software services, solutions, consulting and products development services. We deliver technology-driven, yet cost-effective business capabilities to our clients, empowering them to become more agile and responsive to the ever-changing business landscapes.

Fitsol is looking for a Business Analyst to join our ever-expanding IT delivery team. You will work on large scale IT projects and work directly with key external stakeholders. This is a contract position and you will be working at our site in Manchester as well as our client sites.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Acquire, document and maintain an in-depth knowledge of existing business processes and identify areas for potential process improvement.
2. Review and evaluate business benefit cases and requests for change, producing feasibility reports that establish the justification for any future project work.
3. Facilitate workshops, interviews and meetings with business stakeholders and their delegates to capture and document the existing business process and desired changes, using standard process modelling techniques.
4. Document existing and design new business processes using standard process modelling techniques. Identify gaps and opportunities for change and asses business impact.
5. Review and assess any business requirements to ensure these do not adversely impact end-to-end processes.
6. Analyze, specify and validate business requirements translating these into clear functional and non-functional business requirements using standard templates and tools.
7. Take ownership that business requirements are fully understood by architects, internal development teams the third party suppliers.
8. To be the conduit between solution design and business stakeholders to ensure that they understand how the requirements will be met.
9. Work with stakeholders to ensure that data is accurately cleansed, transformed, migrated and reconciled.
10. Create the traceability matrix to track the delivery, testing and business sign-off of all requirements.
11. Meeting potential clients to understand the scope of the project before the sale.
12. Identify and validate user acceptance criteria, working from business requirements, solution design and test strategies, creating user acceptance test scripts to an appropriate level.
13. Manage and coordinate the user acceptance test phase, ensuring that entry and exit criteria are defined and met before sign-off.
14. Support the operational handover process, identifying service levels, key performance indicators and standard operating processes, creating support models and updating the application support portfolio.
15. Ensure business users are capable of using any new process or change to an existing process, creating user guides and training materials and providing training where necessary.

Skills requirement:

1. Business/Systems Analyst - utilizing an array of techniques, such as workshops, to gather and elicit requirements.
2. Excellent communication and Stakeholder Management skills - with the ability to build solid relationships, influence and network well.
3. Experience of end-to-end solution development in a commercial environment and scoping analysis activities, with a proven track record of meeting deadlines within budget.
4. Experience of Enterprise Architecture System Design is DESIRABLE.
5. Relevant pre-sales experience.
6. Ability to manage and motivate teams.
7. Experience within an Agile environment.

Qualifications & Positions:

ISEB or equivalent in business analysis (Desirable). Bachelor’s Degree

Business Analyst Positions: 3

Salary: GBP 33000 Annual salary

What we offer:

1. Career progression opportunities.
2. Exposure to senior leadership from day one.
3. The chance to work on large scale IT projects with well-known organisations.
4. Brilliant training opportunities.

To learn more about this vacancy, please email careers@fitsol.co.uk or call on +44 (0) 161 883 7819. Alternatively, apply now with an up-to-date CV to be considered for position.