An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team as a business analyst. My client is a large international company with aggressive growth campaigns.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify areas for improvement, understand business need, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current processes 
  

• Assist the business stakeholders in prioritising business requirements and defining new business processes 
  

• Perform root cause analysis of problems, conduct workshops and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into functional requirement specifications

• Produce detailed, high quality and clear documentation 

• Work closely with technical team during the implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects. Validate solution delivered and ensure it is fit for business purpose. 
  

• Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business stakeholders at all levels during the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change 
  

• Drive deliverables to completion within challenging timelines ensuring collaboration and effective communication with all stakeholders 
  

• Work effectively with stakeholders located both locally and remotely 
  

• Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the specification document have been delivered and are ready for release 
  

• Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process. Where necessary devise detailed cut over plans to address potential operational impacts at cutover 
  

• Business travel will be required

Requirements:

• 2 to 4 years experience in a Business Analyst role 
  

• Fluent in English and Cantonese both verbally and written 
  

• Strong documentation skills, in particular writing detailed requirements specification documents in English for use by development and test teams 
  

• Has worked on both large scale and smaller projects and been responsible for defining and designing business solutions 
  

• Experience in Waterfall project methodology 
  

• Change Management experience 
  

• Strong Knowledge of Microsoft Office ( Excel, Word) 
  

• Knowledge of the insurance industry beneficial
  

• Customer focused 
  

• Strong communication (verbal & written) 
  

• Ability to work effectively within a team environment 
  

• Honesty and Integrity 
  

• Proven ability to drive and manage change 
  

• Demonstrable ability to think "outside of the box" and innovate 
  

• Comfortable challenging the ideas of others

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