Role: BSG Finance Business Analyst

Salary: £Competitive + excellent benefits (pension, healthcare, life insurance, bonus etc.

About the role:

The Finance Business Analyst translates business and system needs into requirements for Designers, Developers and Testers, with a focus on Finance and the confidence to work with other business domains. The Business Analyst may work on multiple requests simultaneously, for more than one user department. The Business Analyst is engaged in work efforts at various scales ranging from minor defects fixes and enhancements to assistance with development of new business processes and associated applications. They are also involved in various types of solution approaches and solution domains (business applications, data warehouses, web services, infrastructure, etc.). The Business Analyst will demonstrate a knowledge of the software development lifecycle and AGILE methodology

What you’ll do:

• Build a relationship between business partners and the IT department relative to requirements, solutions and priorities
• Develop requirement documentation that will translate business needs into requirements that can be understood by the architecture and solution development team
• Participate as needed in IT design reviews to ensure compatibility and interoperability of computing systems
• Develop a knowledge of system capabilities and functions of assigned application software. Use this knowledge to recommend optimal solutions to business requirements that best leverages the product
• Manage special projects as assigned by IT management
• Provide advice and recommendations on emerging IT trends
• Provide advice and consultation to other more junior Business Analysts on more difficult and complex assignments and implement ways to reuse requirements across projects
• Ensure that proposed system features and requirements meet user needs and satisfy business objectives and initiatives
• May assist in creation and implementation of test plans that are mapped to documented requirements
• Perform and coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and/or BETA presentations as required on department related projects
• Create training and system documentation, conduct training sessions as necessary
• Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits such as, meeting deadlines, honouring schedules, coordinating resources and meetings in an effective and timely manner, and demonstrate respect for others
• All work responsibilities are subject to having performance goals and/or targets established
• Work within an Enterprise Architecture, leveraging assets and methodologies

About you:

• Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, modelling, verification and methodology development
• Experience of Finance Systems and financial and workflow processes is essential
• Knowledge of system testing and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Proven analytical, mathematical, communication, and creative problem-solving skills
• Understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives
• Strong listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation
• Ability to evaluate information from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details and abstract low-level information to a more general understanding
• Ability to utilize solution modeling to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language
• Ability to communicate clearly with end-users, peers and management through use of business language
• Ability to deal with varied and difficult personalities while maintaining an even temperament
• Working knowledge of Enterprise Architecture

About Fishawack:

Fishawack Health, an independent, full-service, global healthcare communications group with over 1,000 medical experts, marketing professionals and strategic specialists. We are bound by our beliefs, connected through our culture and fearlessly move forward with purpose.

Established in 2001, Fishawack Health has teams across the UK, US, India, Portugal and Switzerland. Our reputation is built on excellence and creativity, bound by a common philosophy and a commitment to providing premium communications services tailored to meet the individual needs of our clients across the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Our mission is to improve outcomes for patients through the communication and application of healthcare knowledge. As our success continues to grow so does our need for talented individuals.

Benefits:

We offer a creative, supportive environment with a uniquely diverse career structure where you will be able to continuously develop. Our STEPS training programme – Supporting Training, Enhancing Professional Development – provides a broad range of training delivered in-house and on-line, and supplements on-the-job training/project team-led training initiatives. We also offer a generous company pension, private medical insurance plus many other excellent employee benefits.