Feature Analyst / Business System Analyst

Our consulting team guarantees an experienced voice with exemplary skills that enhance business performance and processes, whether the needs are technical, strategic and/or managerial. We are currently recruiting for Feature Analysts / Business Systems Analysts for a project at one of the leading Wealth and Financial clients. 

The Feature Analyst will undertake specialist feasibility analysis, evaluations or business projects and provide advice on the optimisation of resources and profitability of projects or resources. They will drive the documentation of detailed business requirements and participate in the design, development, analysis and testing of business process and/or system changes etc

• Facilitate and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs
• Identify user journeys which map out how a user will go through the system
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements
• Groom user stories through business interviews, workshops or procedures and map user stories ensuring they come together as a cohesive whole.
• Provide the Product Owner with key information for prioritisation and estimation.
• Facilitate and participate in iteration meetings and obtain sign off
• Manage the stories (in JIRA), ensuring that all requirements are loaded as stories, ensuring the stories are assigned to epics.
• Support showcasing stories to stakeholders
• Work very closely with user experience team to ensure that processes, wireframes and content are optimally intuitive to end-users
• Manage the Backlog for the Feature Team
• Ensure that the activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog are identified, outlined and prioritized before the next sprint.
• Clarify the goals and business value of Minimum Marketable Features/Minimal Viable Products.
• Clarify any ambiguity until it is understood by the team
• Review user stories with the Product Owner with a strategic point of view
• Ensure that where stories are blocked, these stories are prioritised to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in the current iteration
• Work with users to develop acceptance criteria or test cases for the system
• Provide support and input into system testing activities including participating in the development of the testing approach, development of test cases as well as the creation of testing scenarios.
• Wear different hats: designer, tester, facilitator, product owner, scrum master
• Collaborate with the rest of the feature team to ensure that stories are delivered effectively and quality standards are adhered to.

We will consider candidates at from an intermediate level to senior level with the right attitude – a desire to learn and a passion for innovation

The suitable candidate must;

• Technical background or experience
• Converse and write English fluently
• BlockChain experience would be ideal, but not essential
• Be professional, collaborative, output and delivery focussed.