Lead Business Analyst Core Banking Sw Testing

Overview:
Works autonomously and acts as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or co-ordinating the work of others. Maintains the status of the project and monitors the activities of team members, leading Business Analysis projects using available frameworks and tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on-budget project goals.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leads multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments.
- Responsible for managing own and team's time within a certain area and conditions.
- Responsible for needs analysis, team project planning, process/data analysis and modelling and/or logical database design with relational databases.
- Ensures that own and team's projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are recorded.
- Identifies and assesses risks to the success of the project. Agrees the project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
- Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.
- Plays key role in vertical practice initiatives in building competency and maintaining domain reusable assets.
- Implements new processes/frameworks/methodologies and improvements impacting cost, time and quality.

Qualifications:
Essential:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,or other related field, or equivalent work experience
- ** Excellent - Fluent command in English**:

- ** Experience 5 - 7 years **in core banking is a MUST**:

- ** Flexible to travel outside Egypt**:

- Experience in Finacle is a major plus

**Skills**:**General**:

- Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
- Excellent client-facing skills, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
- Has an innovative approach, develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
- Excellent communication skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.

**Technical**:

- Intermediate theoretical knowledge in business analysis methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments.
- Strong understanding of the business analysis lifecycle, including requirements elicitation, structured analysis, stakeholder management and user case definition.
- Proven ability in assuring project meets quality standards by providing guidance and developing procedures relating to product quality.
- Experience in providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues.
- Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Experience with iterative development process and object-oriented, multi-platform projects.
- Experience in all phases of software development and/or package selection.
- Knowledge of systems flows, engineering documentation, tools and architecture concepts required.
- Experience of using recommended project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking.
- Is skilled at co-ordinating the information gathering and reporting process, reviewing trends and comparing to expectations.

**Management**:

- Good people skills. Experience of introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions.
- Renowned as an effective coach and sounding board.
- Good self management. Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results. Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and looking for ways to beat previous standards.
- Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.

**Experience**:

- **Experience 4 - 7 years **in core banking is a MUST**:

- Experience in Finacle is a major plus