Mission freelance Business Analyst

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Support the Demand Management Process through initial gathering of ideas through to scoping and creation of business cases
* Overseeing the entire requirements process, including scoping, elicitation, documentation, and sign-off
* Input into Supplier Selection process as needed
* Ensuring best practices and Centrica standards are followed throughout the project
* Acting as an intermediary between various stakeholders, such as Project Sponsors, Directors, Business Leads and End-Users
* Facilitating communication to ensure business goals align with technical capabilities
* Assessing operational effectiveness and developing strategies to improve efficiency
* Using market trends and financial analysis to identify opportunities for improvement
* Collaborating with Development and Quality Assurance/User Acceptance Testing (QA/UAT) teams to ensure requirements are met
* Managing traceability matrix to understand scope of delivery vs original requirement and managing expectations with PM where misalignment identified
* Ensuring deliverables are reviewed and approved appropriately
* Supports impact assessment of newly mobilised projects to ensure that their scope / shape is well enough understood to start Business Analysis work


KEY SKILLS

* 6+ years experience as a Business Analyst
* Understanding of key business processes and alignment to these from a technology perspective.
* Experienced in communicating to non-technical audiences.
* Possesses strong oral and written communications skills
* Thoughtful, methodical, pragmatic, disciplined and analytical yet agile and efficient.
* Insight and understanding of architecture and integration techniques for the assembly and federation of both internal and external IT Solutions
* Proficiency in business analysis tools and methods (e.g. ADO, Visio, Process Mapping, Workshop facilitation)
* Proactively identifies analysis that needs to be done, and share plans / timelines with stakeholders
* Experience with Finance Projects, Finance processes, Core accounting, Journal Mgmt, High Volume Transaction Matching, Balance sheet reconciliation
* Experience with Blackline / Trintec solutions
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Ability to take ownership of challenges and drive to conclusion
* Good commercial acumen and business finance and accounting knowledge
* Analytical thinker with the ability to present meaningful data to a wide range of business and IS audiences
* Awareness of energy industry and technology trends



LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.