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Business and Functional Analyst

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Full Remote
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Experience: 
Mid-level (2-5 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

Educated to degree level, Experience in stakeholder management, Proven track record of delivering projects, Outstanding analysis skills, Financial domain experience is a plus.

Key responsabilities:

  • Define and refine business cases
  • Maintain the product backlog and priorities
  • Act as the client's voice during development
  • Analyze existing processes and provide insights
  • Support QA and UAT activities
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Job description

Job Description:

The Role:

The key objective of this role is to bridge the gap between the client’s needs and the technical delivery team, to help successfully deliver projects within this diverse and challenging environment. The Business and Functional Analyst will be heavily involved at all stages of the software delivery lifecycle, from initial scope definition and planning exercises, to the detailed analysis and collaboration with the IT team, to deliver working software.

The Business and Functional Analyst will be required to work effectively with the Treasury team, Treasury Operations, the Product Owner and other Business and Functional Analysts, within the Treasury IT team and the IT vendor teams, to successfully deliver the projects.

The role requires an enthusiastic, pragmatic self-starter, who wants to solve problems, by delivering quality and cost-effective solutions, through the employment of excellent business analysis techniques, data analysis skills and functional domain knowledge.

Responsibilities:

  • Defining and refining business cases in conjunction with Treasury, as part of the Project initiation
  • Challenging, capturing, and articulating requirements, according to the quality standards operating within the team
  • Maintaining and managing the product backlog to ensure priorities are agreed with Treasury
  • Pro-active in identifying cost effective solutions to business problems
  • Acting as the voice of the client throughout the development process
  • Liaising with all parties involved (Treasury, Operations, IT delivery team), to ensure successful delivery
  • Assisting and supporting QAT and UAT
  • Ensuring agreed analysis deliverables are prepared, according to deadline of the projects
  • Mediating and resolving issues as and when they arise
  • Close co-operation with other teams in the Bank, to ensure strategic initiatives are leveraged
  • Identifying areas where we can improve the analysis and delivery capabilities of the wider team
  • Keeping aware of the latest industry trends and best practices to improve the team

Work includes: 

  • Identifying the full range of business requirements and translating requirements into functional specifications, for solution development and implementation
  • Analyzing business requirements and the associated impacts of the changes
  • Analyzing existing processes and data, to get insights about current state
  • Designing and assisting businesses in developing optimal target state business processes
  • Creating and executing against roadmaps that focus on solution development and implementation
  • Answering questions of methodological approach, with varying levels of complexity
  • Aligning with other key stakeholder groups (such as Treasury Change and Software Engineering), to support the link between the business divisions and the solution providers, for all aspects of identifying, implementing, and maintaining solutions

Skills:

  • Outstanding analysis skills, comprising demonstrable experience of all aspects of analysis, such as business process modelling, use cases/user story writing, data modelling, UML
  • Experience in stakeholder management and building excellent professional relationships
  • Previous financial domain experience is a plus
  • Beneficial to have understanding of financial products and high-level risk management principles
  • Beneficial to have experience working on projects requiring data analysis
  • Comfortable working within a full project life cycle, from initiation through to delivery
  • Experience of working with an agile methodology would be an advantage
  • Experience of liaison with other departments (i.e., business units, infrastructure teams, audit) across multiple countries
  • Experience in working with remote client and vendor resources
  • Experience in identifying and documenting client technical needs, internal structures, procedures, workflows, and systems
  • Proven track record of delivering projects in a challenging environment
  • Fantastic written and oral communication
  • Flexible - keen to learn new technologies and to extend business domain knowledge
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • Demonstrable success in meeting deadlines and operating with clients and vendors
  • Work to schedules, potentially across multiple projects and teams
  • Pragmatic yet showing a high attention to detail
  • Educated to degree level

What we offer 

  • A rewarding work: we offer a purpose, a competitive income and promotions based on performance 

  • Managers that empower your ideas and your decision-making abilities. You’re encouraged to show your good vibe, determination, and open mindedness 

  • A professional, passionate, driven, but at the same time fun workplace. It is also flexible, including Work from Home opportunities] 

  • Medical providers to choose from with premium benefits for you and your loved ones 

  • The better you feel, the better you work. We nurture you with an on-site gym, highly modern office that includes plenty of fun and relaxing areas to boost your creativity. We also facilitate copiously retailer discounts, cultural and CSR activities, employee sport clubs, workshops & more. 

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

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Experience

Level of experience: Mid-level (2-5 years)
Industry :
Banking
Spoken language(s):
English
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Other Skills

  • Motivational Skills
  • Detail Oriented
  • Verbal Communication Skills
  • Physical Flexibility

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