* Excellent opportunity to be involved in a major ERP migration project
* Hybrid working outside IR35
About Our Client
The client sits within the Higher Education space.
Job Description
Key responsibilities:
* Take responsibility for business analysis activities on the project - planning and managing the analysis work to fit in with wider project plans.
* Manage the elicitation, documentation, prioritisation, validation and sign-off of business and technical requirements and their acceptance criteria.
* Work with stakeholders to analyse, model and document finance-related business processes, data flows, systems, and system integration.
* Plan, manage and facilitate on-site, hybrid and remote meetings, interviews, workshops and other business analysis activities.
* Analyse information gathered from multiple stakeholders, pro-actively identifying gaps, resolving conflicts and challenging constructively when needed.
* Work with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria for requirements.
* Work with the IT systems lead, data and enterprise architects to ensure that analysis outputs meet with ITS standards.
* Prepare user acceptance testing scenarios and test cases.
* Support user acceptance testing activities, liaising between users, stakeholders, and development teams.
* Collaborate with the project manager to identify and log project risks and contribute to project highlight reporting as required.
* Ensure that the analysis adheres to all relevant policies and systems, ensuring any audit requirements and institutional standards are met.
* Set up and lead multi-disciplinary groups as and when required.
* Communicate effectively with stakeholders throughout the project.
* Present findings, updates, or reports both verbally and in written format, to key stakeholders, senior managers, the project team and/or project board.
The Successful Applicant
The successful candidate will have the following experience:
* Proven experience as a business analyst working on previous complex technical migration/transformation projects
* Previous experience of carrying out business analysis on projects involving finance/ERP systems and for cloud migrations
* Significant experience of systems and process analysis including producing diagrams, maps and models, documenting data flows and system integration
* Previous experience of all aspects of business analysis including requirements elicitation, documentation, prioritisation and validation, definition of acceptance criteria and data analysis
* Experience of facilitating on-site, hybrid and remote meetings workshops, meetings and interviews.
* Experience of working on multiple workstreams/projects at the same time within a complex programme
Desirable skills/experience:
* Experience as a business analyst in a Higher Education environment
* Experience of Unit 4 / Agresso
What's on Offer
This role is an initial contract through to end of July 2025 but may be extended.
It is a hybrid role requiring 60% of the time on-site in Liverpool with 40% of the time remote.
It is also outside IR35.
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