Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity with longer term career prospects for our Top client based in East Grinstead.

• Responsible to fill the gap between business and technology. Liase with the development team to ensure they deliver the required solutions for the business. Will be working in a .Net/C# environment.
• A key role joining a new multi-disciplined team to drive forward a large list of items of work. To create a managed work stream for a team who are committed, work hard and aiming to make a difference.

Duties:

• Create qualified stories of work based on RFC s and bug reports. Preparing work for developers to take into sprints ensuring inclusion of clear acceptance criteria and clear description of work requirements.
• Gathering and writing requirements and specification from a number of stakeholders, challenging working processes to ensure requirement and solutions make best use of technology and offer efficiencies.
• Work closely with the development team to maximise the efficiency of development with the creation of work items.
• Develop relationships across multiple areas of the business and departments.
• Supporting an agile software development team in a fast paced environment.
• Help plan and run workshops.
• Conduct meetings with system users and managers to gather requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Join as a member of a multiple disciplined team working in an Agile working method and take a key role to support and drive them forward.
• Contribute to retrospective meetings to help maximise team efficiency.
• Help build strong working relationships with stakeholders across the entire organisation.

Essential Skills:

• Able to demonstrate the ability to build rapport and engagement with key stakeholders across the entire business and support business transformation and change alongside the delivery of new innovations
• Pragmatic approach to work levels ensuring always producing clear work item and acceptance criteria for pickup of work
• Ability to manage multiple stories.
• Possesses strong intellectual integrity. Critical thinking and problem-solving. Intellectually inquisitive.
• Very self-motivated and proactive.
• Agile/Scrum methodology experience.
• Expert analytical abilities.
• Business process understanding.
• Planning and organisation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Great analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Commitment and enthusiasm to drive through change.
• Team player able to work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Confidence to challenge and be challenged in a fast paced environment.
• Able to take direction and work to achieve deadlines.

Required Experience:

• Relevant experience in a similar role.
• Experience working within a multi skilled agile development team.
• Experience of work stream management using VSTS.
• Preferred - Working knowledge of the travel industry.
• Preferred Some experience of development work would be a highly desirable.

Kindly apply for further details on this excellent opportunity.

Endeavour Recruitment has a new opportunity for an experienced Business Analyst to join a large financial services client based in Paris.

Daily responsibilities:

Maintain the already existing functional specifications and XML schemas (ISO 20022). Provide clarifications to the users of the documentation and update the documents where relevant.

• Create new specifications where relevant, including modelling of business processes, drafting functional specifications, data modelling, design XML schemas (compliant with ISO 20022 standard).
• Prepare test plans and test specifications, including sample XML messages.
• Coordinate the execution of tests, follow up on the incidents.
• Assist the project manager in project management activities (eg work planning, preparation of reports, follow up on risks and issues)
• Prepare and conduct workshops/meetings with project stakeholders.
• Develop business cases and approaches/methodologies to the analysis work.

Essential:

• University degree (BSc) in computer science, computer engineering, business administration or equivalent.
• Excellent knowledge of formal methodologies and practical experience in defining and documenting user requirements, both functional and non-functional.
• Experience in drafting tests specification, testing and tests coordination.
• Excellent analytical skills and a problem-solving orientation.
• Financial sector experience, eg banking, securities markets, insurance.
• Very good command of English with proven drafting ability.
• Experience in project management and/or project management support, including communication with stakeholders, management documentation maintenance, project reporting.
• Knowledge of project management methodologies (PRINCE2 or similar).
• Strong interpersonal skills, customer orientation, self-motivation, and the ability to work in a team are very important.
• Experience in data mapping/modelling.
• Experience in XML/XSD or similar technologies.

Desirable:

• Experience in regulatory IT projects and the European regulatory data reporting frameworks.
• Experience of work in a multicultural environment and cooperation with many stakeholders, including C-level.
• Excellent knowledge of financial instruments and securities markets processes.
• Knowledge of data reporting standards (eg ISO 20022 or similar).

Please forward your cv for immediate consideration for this excellent long term contract opportunity.

Endeavour recruitment has a fantastic contract opportunity for an Experienced Business Analyst in the banking sector based in Vienna, Austria. Minimum of 4 years in the financial sector required.

Our client is  looking for an ambitious and service-oriented Business Analyst for their Data Warehouse. The main goal is to accompany the innovation process from Requirements gathering, solution concept up to implementation.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

• Collect and screen requirements of business departments in defined structure.
• Prepare gap analysis and cost estimation as part of the change management process
• and workflow
• Able to discuss complex business requirements with end users and management to analyse and design solutions and design processes that address the demand
• Support testing and defect management process in all topics related to the respective business area
• Support in consulting of stakeholders in business area and consolidating their demand
• Maintain all related documents and concepts

Your qualifications:

Experience in data modelling

Hands-on experience with databases

High level of communication, presentation and facilitation skills

Team player, service orientation, high level of commitment and motivation

Analytical, result-oriented and structured way of working

Fluent English; German would be an advantage.

Kindly apply for short-listing for this excellent contract opportunity.  

Business Analyst / Functional Analyst / Luxembourg / Contract / €430

Endeavour Recruitment has an exciting opportunity for a skilled Business Analyst / Functional Analyst with Business requirements experience to work on our clients new applications

The role involves: Functional Specifications, Business Process Modeling (BPM), Application Design as well as the ability to co-ordinate, engage, lead and manage User Groups.

Desirables: UML, BPM, BPMN

This is an initial 12 month Contract with a further 12 month extension and the working language is English.

For further details, please don't hesitate to apply.

Business Analyst/ English speaking site, large EU client, long term contract starting at 6 months based in The Haag, the Netherlands.

As Business Analyst you understand fast the objectives and the scope of the project, what the client has today and where he heads for.

You gather the user requirements through different techniques (documentation, meetings, trainings, etc.) and you define the scope and requirements in a functional documentation.

Taking into account all the quality constraints, you take an active role in the creation of the adequate solution for the client.

You support the experts in the definition of the technical constraints and in the design of the solution.

You are an actor of the project progress, constantly in relation with the client and the project delivery team.

You report to the project manager, or you can act as the project manager on smaller projects.

Profile

•  You have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Master degree is an asset
•  You have experience in functional design and analysis
•  You are pragmatic and solutions oriented
•  You have excellent communication skills and you can write complex documents and deliver presentations
• You are open-minded, problem-solver, with good communication skills.
• You are flexible, pro-active, structured and quality oriented
• You speak fluent English

Experience:

• You have strong analytical skills
• Previous experience with Business Process Modeling
• Experience in requirements managements tool(s)
•  Experience in UML
• Experience in case management/case360
• Business knowledge of patent management is a plus