Senior Technical Business Analyst

Davy is a trusted market leader in wealth management and capital markets, building rewarding relationships that last. Our vision is to be the financial services partner most trusted by our clients and most admired for our people. We are committed to delivering world-class outcomes for our clients – whether they are individuals, businesses or institutions.

Developing our people is our priority and we are committed to embracing diversity in all its forms recognising that the breadth of thought, perspective and experience that emerges from a diverse workforce is essential to deliver on our core values.

Our city centre location, free access to our onsite gym and fitness studio, and impressive social calendar are just some of the unique benefits our employees enjoy while working at Davy. Performance related bonuses, generous pension contributions and investment in your further education demonstrate the value we place in developing and rewarding our staff.

We are over 800 people, managing €16bn+ of our client assets, with offices in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Belfast and London. We are one team, always growing, putting our clients first.

We are now advertising for a Senior Business Analyst to work in our IS Department.

Key Responsibilities:

• To work closely with business users & heads of departments to understand issues & identify system and/or process solutions
• To proactively identify organisational impacts as a result of new business process or system deployments
• To develop business requirements, functional specifications, test plans and related documentation in support of systems initiatives
• To liaise with members of the IT function and external vendors to determine how best deliver those requirements
• To manage third party vendor relationships to ensure project deliverables & to address day to day concerns / issues in a timely and satisfactory fashion
• To become a subject matter expert by maintaining a detailed knowledge base of business operations, business processes, data flows and systems in the business areas supported
• To configure, enhance and maintain in scope systems in line with business requirements and product roadmap
• To provide a high standard of support for in-scope applications and to the business teams in order to investigate queries and bring to a satisfactory resolution or escalate where required
• To draft comprehensive test scripts and use cases in order to prove successful change & to work closely with members of the IT function and business users in designing and executing test plans
• To support the business readiness phase of the project by reviewing business processes and procedures, preparing training materials, scheduling training sessions, supporting post implementation reviews & lessons learned

Requirements

• A minimum of 5+ years’ experience with a proven track record of working in a technically complex environment;
• Ability to maintain productive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders of various levels across the organisation
• Strong experience in evaluating 3rd party solutions and managing the selection process
• Strong experience in managing 3rd party solution providers
• Strong experience in IT project management with a proven track record of playing a key role
• Knowledge of financial markets from front office to back office, HR and pension systems an advantage
• Knowledge of business intelligence tools such as PowerBI / Tableau, SQL query skills

Qualifications

• A relevant Third Level degree
• Experience of both Waterfall and Agile project methodologies
• Business Process Mapping techniques
• Project Management (Prince or PMP) an advantage

Davy is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We value diversity both in background and in experience. You might not meet all of the requirements outlined in the above job description, but we would still like to hear from you. We review all applications received.

Davy Group is a member of the Bank of Ireland Group.