Business Analyst @ Trasys International

For a long-term contract in Amsterdam, Trasys International is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to ensure the continuity of current and future projects of our clients, showing a demonstrable experience of analysis of IT projects/ systems with similar complexity, vision and outcomes to the service requested. 

Role specific skills, competencies and responsibilities:

Project deliverables: 

• Experience in producing Business case, Business vision, gathering requirements, detailing use-cases and mock-ups;
• Ability to review project deliverables for completeness and quality and following a formal methodology ( e.g. RUP). 

Requirements gathering: 

• Ability to gather requirements and develop these based on input from a variety of sources including Proof of Concept, the business and the analysis results; 
• Ability to analyse and manage the collected requirements, including defining prioritization, scope boundaries, classification and trace-ability;
• Ability to translate the requirements into detailed analysis and design specifications in the appropriate level of quality expected by IT; 
• Work in close collaboration with the Data Architect. 

Business architecture: 

• Contributes to all level of governance, from program level to project level and be accountable to the various boards; 
• Ability to represent the organization in a structured manner from motivations, business processes, organisational, capability and information flow perspectives; 
• Ability to model the organization in terms of As-Is and To-be states; 
• Ability to identify issues, redundancies and silos in business capabilities; 
• Extensive experience in BPMN, UML, ER model and EPC model; 
• Extensive experience with modelling software: Enterprise Architect, ARIS, Casewise, MEGA;
• Act as the bridge between the business and IT to align expectations of business/ IT strategies, initiatives, level of services, project and program outcomes. 

Business process modelling: 

• Ability to analyse and design business processes (BPMN);
• Experience with analysis and modelling techniques including use cases, activity diagram, sequence diagram, class diagram to produce functional specifications. (UML analysis - use case, activity, sequence, class diagrams as appropriate);
• Experience in BPMN, UML, ER model and EPC model; 
• Extensive experience with modelling software: Enterprise Architect, Rational Rose, ARIS, Visio; 
• Experience with wire-framing tools. 

Business problem and option analysis: 

• Experience with business problem analysis, identifications of options, cost/benefit alternative etc;
• Experience with performing feasibility studies, benefits modelling, business case development;
• Identification of Business processes and system changes and identification of options to support the implementation of those changes. 

Communication abilities:

• Ability to host and communicate requirements to the internal/ external team for the design and implementation of new solution from a functional perspective; 
• Ability to perform status updates as well as meeting engagement and ownership;
• Ability to plan, estimate, perform risk management and quality assurance with program and project management; 
• Knowledge and understanding of general trends in the domain of expertise is mandatory; 
• Demonstrable leadership capabilities.