We are AMS. We are a global total workforce solutions firm; we enable organisations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, re-shaping, and optimising workforces. Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings; we act as an extension of our clients' recruitment team and provide professional interim and temporary resources.

Our Client is a global logistics and distribution organisation. They operate in 44 countries around the world. Their global revenue exceeds GBP10 billion per annum and they employ almost 160,000 people.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS is looking for an IT Business Analyst for a 6 months contract-based Remotely.

Purpose of the Role:

This role is part of a large transformation program, accountable for managing key business stakeholders to define requirements for change initiatives. The role is aimed at improving processes and systems; ensuring alignment to business benefits, and assuring quality delivery & testing of requirements.

As an IT Business Analyst you will be responsible for:

• Leading the facilitation of business workshops to elicit, challenge, develop and convert business, functional, and non-functional requirements into process/systems solutions considering IT and business drivers
• Ensuring all documented requirements are delivered in a clear, concise, and timely fashion, suitable for handover to the project delivery teams including Solution Architects and Test Leads
• Ensuring that the requirements acceptance criteria, integrity, and trace-ability is maintained throughout the project life cycle by working alongside both internal and external suppliers
• Creating process flows and user diagrams to be able to communicate with internal team members and communicate with senior management.
• Qualification and quantification of business benefits relating to requirements for change and improved business processes, including impact assessment of change requests to scope and requirements
• Ensuring the quality & timeliness of the analysis, requirements, specifications & acceptance criteria produced, whilst supporting risk and issue management
• Bringing flexibility and a positive attitude towards the delivery of services in a fast-paced environment with inherent risks and stakeholders with differing views of success.
• Maintaining subject matter expert knowledge of at least one key business area
• Challenging stakeholders in order to maintain a balance between cost of delivery, time to delivery, and quality of what is required to deliver optimum requirements

What we require from the candidate:

• Experience in delivering Business Analysis within technology projects which have successfully implemented change into multiple and integrated systems affecting multiple business stakeholders
• High degree of competency in business analysis skills, including requirements gathering and engineering, process mapping and modelling, data analysis and modelling, benefits mapping and realisation, root cause analysis, acceptance criteria definition, and assuring test case
• Has a thorough understanding and experience working as a Business Analyst in both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies producing user stories, use cases, or requirements matrices as appropriate
• Excellent verbal and written communication (including listening) skills and competent in the use of presentation skills with colleagues, suppliers, and customers
• Effective senior stakeholder management with internal and external stakeholder groups
• Experience in working with 3rd party vendors and suppliers

This client will only accept workers operating via an or engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business