Consultant I-Senior Lead of Business Analyst

OverviewStart/End Dates: 6/21/2021 - 11/30/2021

Tax Work Location: GBR-London-Schroders-WallPlace

Job Title: IT|Consulting - Consultant I

Job Description: Senior Lead of Business Analyst

Start date: 21 June 2021

End date: 30 November 2021

role : onsite ( 2-3 times visiting the office monthly) but can work from HO

position: 1

Profile of the candidate

min 10- 12 year of experience

confident user knowledge of PEGA BA (Case Management tool knowledge and Asset Management experience )

Product life cycle experience

Very good communicator as to work closely working with the business and the development

Expectations from this role

Works with stakeholders at every level of the organization soliciting strategic imperatives from senior leaders and executives; supporting business unit managers as they leverage business architecture and product development artifacts to create and implement client business plans.

Provide direct input into the governance cycle that supports the achievement of key goals, planning and execution of various scenarios, and delivery of bottom line value for the business

Help client business and leadership team with problem definition

Collaborate and contribute to business and technology consulting projects to deliver client objectives

Perform assessments of client business processes, organizational change, IT processes, and technology landscape; identifying transformational recommendations

Develop a business and technical architecture strategy based on situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.

Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.

Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.

Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.

Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.

Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between the data.

Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units.

Typical performance measures

Transformational value delivered to customer

Utilization in billable roles

Customer feedback

Number of certifications obtained

Number of reusable components designed for CoEs

Performance Areas

Design and Implementation Support:

Understand the business requirements from the analyst and create a mapping document, if required (specific to integration)

Evaluate technical requirements (e.g. number of interfaces required, maps required for each interface etc.); understand the design concepts to be used

Study the best practices for design and jointly design the solution; reviewing the design for potential flaws; verify the design with CoE

Practice Development:Provide feedback on current gaps with internal processes that can be improved

Knowledge Management:

Identify best practices, tools and solution accelerators for products in the solution area; bring in the existing solution accelerators, reusable assets, etc.

Review the solutions and identify opportunity to create reusable assets, solution accelerators, etc.

Stay up to date with new developments in the product / technology solution area under purview

Analyze the best in class solutions and design aspects, track industry trends and draw insights

Solution Development:Build understanding of new solutions and develop delivery capabilityAssist in creation of new solutions by providing inputs and insights

Product Selection:Collaborate with the product selection group to identify the best suited product to meet the project requirements; provide inputs on product features, as required

Technology Consulting Advisory:

Engage with client stakeholders during advisory engagements

Gather information relevant to the client''s context and conduct detailed analysis using technology solution frameworks

Seek guidance from Lead Consultant as required

Arrive at draft recommendations based on analysis

Provide thought leadership on implementation of specific technology

Engage with client stakeholders

Alliance Management:

Engage with the technology specialists of the product vendor to identify ways to leverage the product

Skill Examples

Domain / Industry: Specialized knowledge of one or more sub-domains within the relevant industry vertical, and customer business domain. Basic knowledge of geography specific business domain and regulations, multiple industry standards and regulations and in-depth knowledge of one, sources and parameters of industry analytics, market/ industry trends / current state

COTS Product Features / Functionality: Working knowledge (awareness) of functionality of a specific product

Competitive Products Landscape: Working knowledge of COTS product and cross-trained in another similar COTS product that support similar business process (including basic knowledge of the competition and Client capability at a high level for the same)

Different Implementations: Demonstrates working knowledge of 2 or more different kinds of implementations (upgrade, new implementation, conversion / migration, enhancements, maintenance, interfaces testing) for a specific product

Technology Concepts: Demonstrates specialized knowledge of technology (OS, languages, applications, databases concepts, data models etc.), technology landscape

Process Consulting: Specialized knowledge of process consulting/harmonization concepts, framework (performance management, role profiling, shared services),process analysis tools and frameworks, tools and practices required to model processes (such as Visio, BPM Strategy / Roadmap, Value Stream Mapping, BPM CoE setup, Vendor evaluation, Business Rules harvesting)

Project Management Tools and Techniques: Demonstrates working knowledge of project management process (such as project scoping, requirements management, change management, risk management, quality assurance, disaster management, etc.), tools (MS Excel, MPP, client specific time sheets, tools and processes, capacity planning tools, etc.)

Project Governance Framework: Demonstrates working knowledge of project governance framework, RACI matrix

Project Metrics: Demonstrates basic knowledge of project metrics (e.g. quality metrics, utilization, onsite to offshore ratio, span of control, rookie ratio, pyramid)

Estimation and Resource Planning: Working knowledge of estimation and resource planning techniques (e.g. UCP Estimation model), industry level functional sizing methodologies (e.g. FP), Client Specific Estimation Templates

Requirement Gathering and Analysis: Demonstrates working knowledge of requirements (functional/ non functional) ,requirement analysis tools (such as functional flow diagrams, activity diagrams, blueprint, storyboard), techniques (business analysis, process mapping, etc.), requirements management tools , requirements traceability, requirement elicitation practices (interviews, questionnaires, user observation, workshops, brainstorming, use cases, role playing, prototyping, etc.)

Solution Structuring: Demonstrates working knowledge of Client service offerings and domain related COTS products. Basic knowledge of service lines within Client

Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques: Demonstrates working knowledge of industry knowledge management tools (such as portals, wiki), Client and customer knowledge management tools, techniques (such as classroom training, self-study, application walkthrough and reverse KT)

Technical Standards, Documentation and Templates: Demonstrates working knowledge of various document templates and standards (such as business blueprint, design documents and test specifications)

Pricing and Licensing Models: Working knowledge of pricing models (fixed price, non linear, unit based), licensing models (End User License Agreements etc.). Has awareness of advanced commercial and pricing models (outcome-based, transactional pricing, ..... full job details .....