Job Description:

• Lead and facilitate requirements gathering and solution workshops with stakeholders, suppliers and functional/technical subject matter experts

• Complete detailed analysis on data flows and business/accounting requirements to clearly define: data content, formatting, mapping, cleansing, enhancement, validation, exceptions handling, access, retention and storage requirements

• Produce and maintain analysis documentation including Data Mappings and Data Dictionaries

• Ensure solutions are modeled logically, consistently and intuitively ensuring that they perform optimally with agreed tolerances

• Liaise with technical specialists and other business analysts from WTW/3rd parties to define/design appropriate end-to-end solutions, ensuring these meet both defined business requirements and Group Technology principles/roadmaps

• Support the QA process on projects by contributing to QA/testing strategies/plans, reviewing testing documentation, reporting progress of testing, contributing to production of test cases and answering general queries from QA analysts

• Review any supplier functional specifications and all WTW/supplier technical specifications to ensure business requirements are accurately translated

• Active contribution to project estimating, planning, business case development, risk/issue management and progress reporting

• Support business change activities where required, including training and preparation of user documentation

The Requirements

Essential:

• Minimum 5 years Business and Systems Analysis experience

• Able to communicate effectively at all levels

• Self-assured, dynamic, open to ideas, and able to influence others.

• In-depth understanding of the systems development process and overall project lifecycle

• Excellent data and process analysis skills

• Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data Modelling experience.

• Experience of Data Mapping from Source systems to target model.

• Experience of writing complex SQL database queries

• Competent user of business systems and IT tools (e.g. Microsoft Office products, Visio, SPARX Enterprise Architect, SQL)

Desired Skills/Experience Specific to Role:

• Experience of general ledger and/or financial reporting implementations would be useful background

• Reference data domain project knowledge/experience and Transactional data warehousing

• Experience of the full IT project lifecycle from requirements capture through to hand-over to operational support, utilizing an Agile framework

• First rate communication skills and ability to apply these to rapid and creative problem solving in a pressurized environment

• Systems integration experience

• Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage priorities and take responsibility for delivering to time and quality requirements

• Ability to work without close supervision, define direction and comply with overall Group strategy and objectives

• Understanding of regulatory environments (FCA)