Senior Business Analyst

Business Analyst - Contract Position - HIRING ASAP

Start date: ASAP
Duration: 6 months
Location: 2-3 days per week in Dublin office.
Rate: €500 - €535 per day

Responsibilities

• Running workshops
• Working on documentation
• Interacting with business stakeholders and subject matter experts from a range of Divisions across Revenue to understand and document the current "As Is" VAT business processes including registration, customer service, compliance, risk, and debt collection.
• Identifying inefficiencies, opportunities for improvement and potential "To Be" processes and solutions.
• Conducting various workshops with VAT experts to gain understanding of current processes.
• Identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems using MOSCOW techniques.
• Guiding experienced resources in their work.
• Managing issues and risks affecting the project/team.
• Maintain and encourage a positive relationship between all team members.

Key Skills

• Previous Consulting experience
• 7 years' minimum experience
• Local market experience preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Learning ability, including integrating information and the ability to judge and to evaluate.
• The capacity to connect, including working together or teamwork, presentations skills, networking skills and empathy.
• The capacity to structure, including planning, organising, and simplifying information.
• Sound grasp of the fundamentals of taxation, from registration through to returns filing and payment options.
• Requirements/Business Analysis skills to allow effective communication with the business and ensure smooth translation from business requirement to technical requirement.
• Experience working on engagements with technologies and architectures similar to Revenue's.
• Knowledge/experience of delivery methodologies, application development life cycle
• and delivery models particularly Agile methodology and its associated processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to mentor, coach, and support more junior personnel in the role.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid Methodologies.
• Desirable to also have change management experience on large scale transformational projects.
• RDM
• Revenue architecture & data sources
• Revenue processes & procedures (eg RM procedures)
• Status reporting and risk/issue management.