Senior Business Analyst

Project description
Senior business analyst owning requirements for the Client's digital products: stakeholder discovery, process mapping, BRD/FRD and functional specifications, gap analysis and UAT coordination. Accountable for completeness, traceability and change control of requirements.
Key tasks:
• Plan and run stakeholder interviews and workshops; synthesise outcomes into prioritised requirements.
• Map as-is and to-be business processes (BPMN) and identify improvement opportunities.
• Author BRDs, FRDs, functional specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Perform gap analysis between business needs, existing systems and proposed solutions.
• Prepare UAT scripts and data, coordinate testing with the business and triage defects.
• Maintain the requirements traceability matrix from requirement to delivered feature and test.
Responsibilities
Completeness and accuracy of documented requirements.
Traceability from requirement to delivered feature and test evidence.
UAT coordination and defect triage with the business.
Requirement change control and impact assessment.
Must have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years as a business analyst on enterprise software delivery, of which 3+ leading requirements for a product or programme end to end (discovery to UAT).
Requirements elicitation and documentation (BRD/FRD, user stories, acceptance criteria), BPMN process modelling.
Backlog tooling (Azure DevOps / Jira), Confluence, Visio / Miro / Figma for wireframes.
Data literacy: SQL for data validation, understanding of APIs and integration flows.
UAT planning, test-case design and defect management.
Agile / Scrum delivery; facilitation and stakeholder management up to director level.
Nice to have
CBAP / CCBA, PSPO or equivalent certification.
Experience with investment, treasury or corporate-services processes in a holding company.
Product ownership experience.
Experience in financial services, sovereign wealth / investment holding or other regulated enterprise environments.
Experience working with distributed teams (onsite UAE with nearshore India / offshore Poland squads).
Languages
English: C1 Advanced

Work arrangement
Yes