Interim Business Analyst Lead
Dentons, Czech Republic
Job Description
We are open for the successful candidate to be located in either of the following offices: Warsaw, Poland; Madrid, Spain; Prague, Ostrava Czech Republic
Term: 24 months (opportunity to extend)
About the Opportunity
The Interim Business Analyst Lead will be responsible for gathering requirements from offices across Europe and analyzing processes related to the technical aspects of the firm’s Finance Transformation programme. This will involve travel across Europe (when circumstances allow). The firm is moving from a Thomson Reuters Elite Enterprise Practice Management System to Thomson Reuters 3e and this role will be integral to that programme. Managing a distributed team of business analysts and working with key programme team members this role will require an ability to coordinate internal and third-party resources, the successful candidate will ensure the smooth execution of project tasks and documentation. Key to this role will be the ability to work with all levels of stakeholder in the organization in order to complete projects on time. The role will work very closely with the Europe Finance Systems team, the PMO as well as counterparts in other regions and the Global Transformation team.
The finance transformation program is a truly global programme to transform Dentons' finance function into the business partnering function of the future. It will support the business by offering true business insight, efficient and effective processes while maintaining the necessary compliance and controls. This role will be responsible for ensuring that the projects under the responsibility of the Finance Systems teams with regards to data integrations, conversions and developments are delivered on time and on budget.
As a polycentric organization Dentons requires this role to drive the development and operation of a regional change management strategy through working with the regional change teams, subject matter experts and regional leadership, and then subsequently to support regional alignment and adoption.
The role
- Working with the Europe Finance Transformation project team and key stakeholders
- Analysis of processes at a regional level and at office level
- Requirement and information gathering from offices
- Mapping processes and gap analysis to ensure that the global programme satisfies.
- Document generation through process flows
- Development and creation of Business Requirement documentation
- Creation of technical specification documentation
- Working closely with the Finance Transformation team members and the wider business stakeholders at all levels to ensure that requirements are effectively captured
- Liaising and updating the Technical Project Manager and the regional Project Management team, particularly around blockers and risks to project timelines or where office processes may not map to the global project.
- Ensuring that programme decisions are communicated to offices and coordinating feedback
- Recruit, lead and support a team of Business Analysts
- Manage resource allocation proactively by ensuring that appropriate resources and tools are assigned according to the project plan.
- Coordinate and manage team of Business Analysts in similar BA tasks.
- Assessing impact of programme decisions
- Working with and supporting offices with the technology and process changes that the programme will bring to their routines
- Engage directly with stakeholders and business advisor groups to ensure timely and accurate communications
- Responsible for production of clear and precise process documentation that will support technical development requirements and testing documentation
- Implement the approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate project risk events in order to minimize the impact of the risks on the project.
- Communicate proactively to ensure that risks and issues are identified, noted and addressed.
- Establishes and maintains client relationships. Communicates feedback to leadership as appropriate.
About you
- Education: Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Management or related field (or similar experience).
- Significant experience in a transformation programme with an Integration, Data Conversion and Data focus.
- Experience with large system implementations
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Practical experience and knowledge of business impacts that large scale transformations bring.
- Understanding of working within both waterfall and agile programmes.
- PRINCE2 certification preferred
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence stakeholders at different levels.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Experience of working i