Senior Business Analyst
Charlotte Tilbury, United Kingdom
Job Description
As a Senior Business Analyst working within the Transformation Business Analysis Team, you will be working on a number of strategic programmes within the Transformation Finance portfolio. You will be responsible for leading the business analysis within key programmes and delivering them to a high-quality standard through to implementation.
This role plays a significant part in understanding the challenges faced by business and ensuring that the new solution alleviates these. You will contribute to the business process catalogue and shape this for your given portfolio. You will work closely with the programme lead and change lead within Transformation particularly in the Finance space. You will lead junior business analysts who work within the portfolio and support them in delivering a high-quality output. You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders as well as technology counterparts in delivering these transformations.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence business processes efficiency and support the roadmap of digital transformation within Charlotte Tilbury.
As a senior BA you will lead the business analysis for key projects in the Finance given portfolio through to successful implementation
- Work closely with key stakeholders across the business to understand their challenges and ensure that the right solutions are delivered to resolve these.
- Work closely with key stakeholders across the business to understand their challenges and ensure that the right solutions are delivered to resolve these.
- Be responsible for scoping, estimating, and organizing the BA activities within these projects.
- Be responsible for delivering high quality business analysis, improve business efficiencies and deliver improved service to the business.
- Provide business analysis expertise across the business aligned with methodology and tools driven centrally by the BA team including requirements gathering and creation of documentation to support change delivery such as business requirements, BPMN, user stories, wireframes and UAT.
- Remain current on Business Analysis practices, techniques, and tools.
- Build and contribute towards the process catalogue for your given portfolio. You will map, analyse, and support the definition of new processes as needed.
- Lead and engage a team of analysts and mentor junior BAs for projects within your portfolio.
- Engage and collaborate with business teams to ensure that change if captured and fed into the change process.
- Develop strong working relationships with business teams and internal and external stakeholders.
Reporting Relationships:
Reporting to the Head of Business Analysis within Transformation, you will lead a small team of BAs that work within your portfolio with a mix of contract and permanent team members.
You will work closely with the Transformation Lead for your portfolio and report to the Project Manager for ongoing task planning and execution.
Requirements
- At least 10 years’ experience as a Business Analyst with experience in delivering multiple complex change initiatives end-to-end as a business analyst within Finance projects.
- Experience of implementation of Finance systems with detailed knowledge of end-to-end Finance processes and the impact they have across the value chain.
- Domain expertise in Finance Transformation, Procure-to-Pay process, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Reconciliation
- Highly experienced in Business Analysis methodologies and tools related to business requirements, user stories, process mapping, process catalogue, data mapping, test cases, traceability, and non-functional requirements.
- Experience of having tough conversations with stakeholders to negotiate and deliver difficult updates.
- Previous line management responsibility with the ability to motivate and mentor others.
- Ability to run multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
- Fast learner who can learn about the multiple business areas, organisational structure and working methodologies.
- Passion for problem-solving and delivering process improvements through projects.
- People oriented with strong interpersonal and communications skills, comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to work under pressure on multiple initiatives within the specific timeframes.
- Enjoys working flexibly in a dynamic team of functional and technical people who are constantly learning from each other and working smoothly towards a common goal.
Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome