Associate Business Analyst

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The Associate Business Analyst role is an entry level position and is required to work with internal and external clients to determine requirements and to define solutions to address business, process and systems problems, and improvements in the organisation. They act as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organisation, and to recommend solutions that enable the organisation to achieve its goals. They take guidance from more senior Business Analyst(s) within the team.

**What you'll be doing**

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Acts as a bridge between the business problems and the technology solutions.
- Supports the analysis, transformation and ultimately works towards resolving business problems with the help of technology.
- Works with internal clients and applies best practice methodologies to determine business requirements and to define solutions to address business, process, information and system problems, improvements or change.
- Delivers business projects in line with sponsor requirements and enterprise architecture.
- Proactive development and deployment of enhanced services and platforms, covering all the functional aspects from service/product definition through to build and deployment.
- Ensures the identification and documentation of operational gaps including user guides, templates, test cases and related user training.
- Assists with the resolution of issues pertaining to the service.
- Adheres to and follow the relevant development and support processes.
- Communicates and escalates if any issues arise or deliverables cannot be met and request assistance to ensure closure of issues.
- Takes responsibility for delivery of project elements under relevant guidance and supervision.

**Knowledge, Skills and Attributes**:

- Demonstrated understanding of business practices and processes
- Team player who displays good client service orientation with well-developed administrative and organisation skills
- Developing expertise in specific systems, processes and technologies that they will be required to analyse
- Meticulous attention to detail whilst working under pressure
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to listen empathetically
- Ability to build rapport and engage effectively with a variety of stakeholders
- Knowledge of project management methodology
- Good analytical skills with the ability to convert business requirements into operational deliverables (functional requirements) to meet business objectives
- Good documentation skills, in particular, functional requirements, test cases, system user documentation, processes and procedures and presentations
- Very good working knowledge of Microsoft Exchange, Word, Excel Project, PowerPoint and Visio
- Understanding of systems generally used in a services organisation e.g. ServiceNow, Siebel, Remedy, SAP, EMS would be advantageous

**Academic Qualifications and Certifications**:

- Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with related demonstrable experience
- Project management certification would be advantageous
- IIBA Membership required
- PMI PBA
- Relevant technology certification(s) required, such as ITIL

**Required Experience**:

- Basic experience as a Business Analyst gained within a technology services environment
- Basic experience as a system administrator or developer would be advantageous
- Basic experience in and with all operational aspects of a Services business, preferably with a Systems Integrator
- Basic experience in the business requirement gathering, use case definition, process mapping and implementing new services and systems

**Workplace type**:
Hybrid Working

**About NTT DATA**

**Equal Opportunity Employer