Req ID: 386493
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We are currently seeking a Senior Techno Functional Business Analyst to join our team in Dublin, Dublin (IE-D), Ireland (IE).
FS Advisory Consultant (Techno-Functional Business Analyst)
Summary of Role
In this role, the individual will:
- Bring a strong understanding of Financial Services consulting, business analysis, and technology-enabled transformation, having worked in a similar capacity across advisory and implementation engagements.
- Lead advisory engagements involving business operating model design, business process transformation, cost-benefit analysis, and technology enablement.
- Engage business stakeholders to capture, analyze, and document business requirements, process models, and target-state solutions using industry-standard frameworks and tools.
- Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology delivery.
- Act as a liaison between business, product, architecture, data, and technology teams to drive successful solution implementation.
- Support end-to-end transformation initiatives across Banking and Financial Services domains through a combination of consulting and technology expertise.
Responsibilities
Business Analysis Advisory
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand problem statements, define scope, and identify business outcomes.
- Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to gather business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
- Document current-state (As-Is) and future-state (To-Be) business processes and operating models.
- Perform process analysis and identify opportunities for digitization, automation, simplification, and operational efficiency.
- Develop business cases, impact assessments, and cost-benefit analyses to support transformation initiatives.
- Conduct industry benchmarking and research to identify leading practices, operating models, and emerging trends.
- Support business strategy development, customer experience improvement, and digital transformation initiatives.
- Develop a deep understanding of the business context, market landscape, and regulatory environment affecting stakeholders.
Technology Delivery
- Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and use cases.
- Collaborate with solution architects, engineering teams, data teams, and testing teams to design and deliver technology solutions.
- Define data requirements, system integration points, reporting requirements, and business rules.
- Support solution design workshops and ensure business requirements are accurately reflected in technical designs.
- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization, and release management activities.
- Support system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), and production deployment activities.
- Assist with data analysis, data mapping, migration requirements, and reconciliation activities where required.
- Ensure traceability between business requirements, functional specifications, testing, and implementation outcomes.
Product Change Management
- Work closely with Product Owners and business stakeholders to define and prioritize product roadmaps.
- Create and manage epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria within Agile delivery environments.
- Support organizational change management, stakeholder communication, and business readiness activities.
- Drive stakeholder alignment and facilitate decision-making across business and technology teams.
- Contribute to a metrics-driven culture through KPI definition, tracking, and benefits realization reporting.
Experience Skills Required
- Strong background in Financial Services consulting, business analysis, or transformation delivery with preferably 10+ years of experience, including 4+ years within a Big 4 advisory or similar consulting organization.
- Proven experience delivering large-scale business and technology transformation initiatives within Banking and Financial Services.
- Strong techno-functional expertise with the ability to bridge business requirements and technology implementation.
- Experience in business process modelling, requirements elicitation, business case development, and operating model design.
- Strong understanding of system implementation lifecycles, solution delivery methodologies, and change management practices.
- Experience working with product owners, solution architects, developers, testers, and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Knowledge of system integration concepts, APIs, data flows, data mapping, reporting, and enterprise applications.
- Experience working in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and Waterfall delivery environments.
- Proficiency with business analysis and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Signavio, Miro, Blueworks, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and workshop facilitation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders in complex transformation programs.
- Solid understanding of digital transformation, customer experience, process optimization, and technology modernization initiatives.
- IT background with a strong appreciation of enterprise technology architecture and solution delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in core banking, payments, lending, wealth management, capital markets, insurance, or customer servicing transformation programs.
- Exposure to cloud-based platforms, data modernization programs, AI-enabled solutions, and digital channels.
- Relevant certifications such as CBAP, PMP, PRINCE2, Agile BA, Scrum, SAFe, or Product Owner certifications.
- Bachelor's degree with 2.1 or higher (or equivalent) in a related discipline; Master's degree preferred.
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