Responsibilities:

• Undertake investigative work to determine business opportunities, and specify effective business processes;
• Specify their implementation through improvements in information systems, data management, practices, organisation and equipment;
• Conduct investigations for strategy studies, requirements specifications and feasibility studies; Maintain technical awareness at a level where alternatives can be analysed, modelled and classified according to technical feasibility and non-functional characteristics;
• Assess and advise on the practicability of alternatives, marrying up technical limitations with operational realities;
• Take responsibility as needed for the detailed specification and modelling of recommended solutions;
• Apply available standards, methods and tools in an intelligent and effective way and produce a consistently high standard of documentation;
• Define, plan and justify (in business terms) projects to develop/implement automated and non-automated components of new or changed processes;
• Assist clients/users in defining acceptance criteria for testing of automated systems;
• Produce business models in support of business strategy; Cross-check various model elements for inconsistencies and incompleteness eg finite state models against use case models, class diagrams against business rules, case post conditions against class diagrams;
• Elicit and record business rules and confirm them with business experts;
• Contribute to evaluating the factors which must be addressed in change programmes including cultural, organisational and business constraints affecting options for change;
• Assess the risks, costs and potential benefits of alternative business process designs.

Experience

• At least 5 years' experience
• Business analyst skills
• Stakeholder management experience
• Investigation experience
• Feasibility exp
• Full project lifecycle experience
• Business change experience
• IT knowledge
• Rail - ideal