Our client, a leading financial services organisation in Dublin, is hiring an experienced Business Analyst on a day-rate contract to support a business-critical change programme.
The Business Analyst will sit within the change function and act as the link between business stakeholders, technology teams and delivery leads. You will own requirements from discovery through to implementation, ensuring solutions meet business, operational and regulatory needs.
This role suits a hands-on contractor who has delivered in a regulated financial services environment and can get up to speed quickly with minimal handholding.
Key responsibilities
- Lead requirements elicitation through workshops, interviews and process walkthroughs with business and operations stakeholders
- Document business requirements, functional specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria
- Map current-state and future-state processes, identifying gaps, risks and improvement opportunities
- Perform data analysis and data mapping to support system changes, migrations and reporting
- Translate regulatory and business needs into clear, testable requirements for technology teams
- Work within Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery models, contributing to backlog refinement and sprint ceremonies
- Support test planning, UAT execution and defect triage, ensuring requirements traceability
- Produce impact assessments and support change management, training and business readiness
- Maintain clear documentation and provide regular status updates to the Project/Programme Manager
Essential experience
- 5+years' experience as a Business Analyst, with recent delivery in financial services (banking, insurance, funds or payments)
- Track record on regulatory, transformation or technology change programmes
- Strong requirements gathering, process mapping (BPMN/Visio) and documentation skills
- Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria and working in Agile teams (Jira, Confluence)
- Good data analysis skills, including working knowledge of SQL and Excel
- Confident stakeholder management with senior business and technology audiences
- Previous contracting experience and the ability to deliver quickly in a new environment
Desirable experience
- Domain knowledge in one or more of regulatory reporting, fund services, credit/lending, payments, financial crime, risk.
- Exposure to Central Bank of Ireland, EU or other regulatory requirements (e.g. DORA, CCD2, BCBS 239)
- Experience on system implementations or data migrations
- BA certification such as IIBA (CBAP/CCBA), BCS or Agile/PSPO
- Third-level qualification in business, finance, IT or a related field
