Job description Posted 23 February 2024

Senior Business Analyst

Edinburgh – hybrid  

Contract until Dec 2024

 

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further. We are currently seeking an experienced individual to join this team in the role of Senior Business Analyst.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

· Elicit requirements using interviews, process analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.

· Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.

· Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional business requirements and deliver artefacts as needed in line with HSBC project templates and methodologies.

· Work independently and with users to define requirements under direction of project manager and/or senior business analysts.

· Leverage strong analytical and product management skills required to build a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into applicable operational requirements

· Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates and standards

· Collaborate with implementation teams, technology teams and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs

· Act as a liaison between the business units, implementation teams and support teams

 

Qualifications & Experience:

· A high quality degree level education – desirable

· Possession of a relevant business analysis qualification - desirable

· A professional project management qualification (eg Prince2) – advantageous but not required

· Financial Services background advantageous

 

Knowledge & Capabilities:

 

·  Analytical Thinker.

·  Impact Assessment/Gap Analysis

·  Business Requirements gathering

·  Process Mapping

·  Process Design

·  Root Cause Analysis

·  Training Documentation/Preparation

·  Highly proficient using Microsoft Visio and Power Point

·  AS IS / TO BE

·  Advanced excel skills an advantage

·  Excellent Organisational Skills

·  Must be a strong communicator both verbal and written.

·  Strong stakeholder management skills

· Positive, dynamic and resilient individual, open to change and able to adapt to changing circumstances

 

 

If you think you are up for the task and feel you meet the above criteria or interested to hear more information, please contact me on Amy.walker@tapfin.com


Please note, in the event of a high volume of applications for this role, we will not be able to respond to each individual applicant. Unfortunately, if you have not been contacted within 7 days then we will not be progressing with your application. Thank you for your understanding