Business Analyst (1-year contract)

Our client is seeking a Business Analyst to lead requirements activities for medium projects, handling analysis, documentation, and change support with minimal guidance across business and technology functions.

JOB OPPORTUNITY

Business Analyst (1-year contract)

Location: Port of Spain

Sector: Financial Services

Qualifications and Experience:

 Must-Have:

• Relevant college, university, and/or post-graduate degree in Business Analysis
• 2-4 years working as a Business Analyst with progressively increasing responsibilities in the areas of requirements management in small to medium projects
• Previous experience working with Financial Institutions
• Experience in dealing with regulatory-related changes
• Proven experience with various project delivery methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative and/or Agile
• Experience in requirements planning and prioritization including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation
• Requirements elicitation techniques such as Document analysis, Interviews, Facilitated workshops, Observation, Prototyping, Focus groups, Surveys

 Nice-to-Have:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA), or Project Management Institute –Professional in Business Analysis (PMI – PBA) Certification (Preferred)
• Masters Certificate in Business Analysis (Preferred)

 Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing individuals or groups and their requirements responsibilities
• Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates
• Manage risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
• Lead requirements prioritization and leverage techniques to drive out business priorities
• Review and validate the requirements approach with a Senior Business Analyst
• Facilitate collaborative sessions with small to medium number of business stakeholders to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review
• Lead 1:1 elicitation sessions and apply various techniques to get a more in-depth understanding of problem-domain and prepare requirements drafts
• Analyze and document scope of the business solution using the organization and industry-standard requirements techniques
• Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements, using enterprise requirements methodology

**Candidates MUST possess ALL academic certifications listed on their resume for verification purposes.

**Only suitable applicants meeting the job requirements will be considered.