AISB-208 Business Analyst

Great, as we're currently recruiting a Business Analyst as part of our product team!

Our client is currently at a turning point in its technological development and is investing in its product, both from a technical and functional point of view. Their ambition? To become a market leader in investment advisory technology, working on delivering a "software as a service" for financial institutions in the cloud and serving existing and new clients through this new technology.

Tasks

A Business Analyst's tasks are varied and depend on the project you will be working on as well as your affinities and interests. Business Analysts have a wide variety of skills and interests and are assigned to teams accordingly.

The most common tasks are:

• Participate in the collection and development of business requirements, whether they are client needs or for new R&D developments;
• Detail these business requirements into more specific needs;
• Standardize needs and concepts to see if they can be developed in such a way as to reply to more than one client's needs;
• Conduct in-depth analysis of business processes, systems, and data through workshops with relevant stakeholders (clients, business experts, other BAs, architects, etc.);
• Find solutions to meet clients' requirements using new or existing products in collaboration with our architects and senior experts;
• Participate in workshops with clients, architects, product experts, and developers;
• Break down a feature into user stories;
• Develop detailed specifications and use cases that will be used by developers and QAs;
• Maintain detailed documentation of the application;
• Follow-up with quality officers and developers; and
• Participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) and provide support during the implementation phase of projects.

Requirements

• Reactivity and adaptability will be part of your daily challenges as you will take part in workshops with various stakeholders;
• Experience working with API-first technology, on the developing side or the integration (consumer) side;
• Knowledge and/or experience in the banking industry (wealth management);
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to quickly understand and resolve issues, in the context of IT-oriented projects;
• Conceptual thinking & abstraction capacity;
• Positive mindset and solution-oriented attitude;
• Team-player;
• Stress resilient;
• Autonomous and resourceful even in uncomfortable situations;
• Good communication skills written and oral;
• Fluent in French;
• Minimum 5 years of experience.

Advantages

• Experience with modeling techniques (BPMN diagrams, UML classes, state machine diagram, and sequence diagrams);
• Experience with Enterprise Architect (Sparx);
• Experience with Figma;
• Experience in a software company, preferably in a product-oriented environment such as a SaaS company.

What makes you stand out

• Experience working with technical architects is a plus;
• Experience with Enterprise Architect (Sparx) is a plus.

What you can expect from us

• Employees receive a full-time contract with a competitive salary package;
• Flexible working environment with a home-working policy;
• Modern and spacious working place in Liège, including a terrace, a pool table, and excellent coffee or tea;
• Working in an inspiring spirit: A dedicated team awaits you to join them in challenging the established rules and creating a new environment that would be simpler and more transparent for everybody;
• Fast personal developments: everybody on board has a crucial role to play and will quickly be given responsibilities. This is a great opportunity for you to challenge your skills and talents without having to wait several years to get to a position with decisional power;
• Collaboration with young and dynamic talents: Who better than millennials could build solutions for millennials (or rather anyone with the same progressive mindset)? That's why we have chosen to trust young talents who are craving innovation, to build products they would like to use.

Work location

• Liège (50% teleworking)

About our client

Originally created within a well-known School of Management, our client is a leading European expert in investment consulting, risk management, and portfolio optimization. While retaining some links with the school itself, which is the driving force behind its R&D efforts, our client has become a fully-fledged commercial company. It has developed an international customer base and implemented its solutions in a number of well-known financial institutions in Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, and beyond. Each of these solutions has been built on a solid foundation of IT expertise and financial knowledge, with the customer in mind always.