Senior Business Analyst

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The current role focuses on the EGDC (Enhanced Grid Development Capability) project. This project will review and improve the processes and tools related to:
Needs Management: capture the needs for changes to our electricity grid, support the portfolio management of these needs. Project Initiation: translating these needs into infrastructure projects and programs. Management of Power System Studies: studies to identify the needs and to analyze potential solutions.
The business analyst is responsible for designing efficient business processes. In addition, you will capture business needs and translate them into business specifications for IT systems. In doing so, you will serve as a bridge between the business and users on the one hand and the various (IT) partners (functional analyst, project manager, architect, etc.) on the other, challenging all parties in the process. The aim is to develop and maintain the necessary IT tools in order to optimally and pragmatically support business processes.

The service consists of the following tasks :

• Managing & coaching the team of business analysts working on the EGDC project.
• Contribute to the establishment and achievement of the long-term vision for business processes and ICT systems.
• Develop as-is and to-be processes.
• Deliver relevant analyses to data governance and IT governance, and take part in architecture studies to realise an efficient application landscape. In particular, this includes identifying and describing the capabilities that must be supported by the systems.

For projects and/or evolving changes:

• take part in defining the scope.
• help the business to define the 'to-be' business processes.
• model business processes and the IT tools, and guidelines for using these tools.
• devise context diagrams, business domain models and user stories/use cases.
• write specifications for the applications and have them validated by the business, and prioritise these changes in various releases.
• challenge the business regarding their needs and 'to-be' processes.
• validate the functional analysis of IT and challenge the proposed solution.
• work with the business – after development by IT – to test and validate changes and then have them deployed.
• play an active role in the change, including drafting training materials and providing training.
• Stay in contact with the business, IT and the other Business Analysts, both within Infrastructure and in the other departments.
• Perform support activities for the business.

Requirements

Competences required :

• You have a master’s degree in a technical or economic field, or equivalent experience.
• You have at least 10 years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst (understanding business needs, developing business requirements) and in business process management.
• You have at least 3 years of experience as “lead analyst” on a transformation project with IT implementation track
• Experience with (large) infrastructure projects is a plus.
• You have knowledge of IREB. Certification is a plus.
• Experience with the Sparx Enterprise Architect tool is a plus.
• You are at home with IT tools and are interested in the electricity sector.
• You have good oral and written communication skills and are fluent in Dutch or French and in English.
• You have a highly analytical and critical mindset.
• You have strong problem-solving skills. You are able to find consensus and to convince the different stakeholders.
• You can communicate assertively and effectively with many different stakeholders.
• You are sufficiently mature to manage your own activities, to work independently, to coordinate analyses done by other business analysts and to represent the business within the project team.

• You are customer-oriented and flexible.

Languages: Fluent in French or Dutch. Preferably you understand the second language. Fluent in English

OUR OFFER
- Contractual flexibility, a permanent contract or a freelance assignment;
- Flexible working hours with the possibility of teleworking (1 to 3 days a week);
- A team of enthusiastic, professional and talent