Business Analyst

LOCATION: Glasgow, Scotland

Job Role Overview

ARE YOU:  Degree educated, imaginative, analytical and clear headed? Have you helped to deliver business benefits through a combination of process re-engineering/culture change, and IT?

The biggest risk for a software product is not that it will be over budget or late, but that it could be the wrong product is built. The role of the business analyst is to identify business issues and requirements and to translate them into a vision of a new or enhanced product. This means creating diagrams, documents, models and storyboards in order to ensure that the same vision is shared by both customers and all internal departments.

Validation is an ongoing activity and takes several forms including: reviews, one-to-one interviews and workshops with customers.

Knowledge & Skills Required

Two or more years of experience working in utilities, government or financial services, process manufacturing (pharmaceuticals, chemicals), engineering & construction, oil & gas or facilities management will have given you an excellent understanding of the issues facing our clients.

To be successful in the role you will have excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and development) you will also need facilitation skills, to lead requirement elicitation workshops and come up with creative ideas.

Experience of document management, knowledge management, workflow systems implementation and technical knowledge of Documentum, FileNet, SharePoint, Oracle/SQL, client-server, web application development and CAD/engineering applications would be desirable, but not essential.

Fluent in one or more modern languages would also be desirable, but not essential.


CV

Please complete an application form and email along with CV to recruitment@mclarensoftware.com

Download Application Form (Microsoft word)