Consultant Business Analyst
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I am a BCS qualified Business Analyst with 9 years experience in business analysis and change. I'm enthusiastic about business enterprise and change.
Leading Business Analysis ways of working and best practices.
Coaching and mentoring junior team members
Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective)
Experienced use of Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps for product backlog refinement/ management
Functional understanding of Microsoft Power Platforms to help define business requirements.
Industry/ Consulting Experience: Financial Sales/ Asset Finance Relationship Management, Retail Banking, Telecoms, E-commerce, Energy, Law, Public Services.
Focused Skills: Microsoft Power Platforms (low code solutions), Business Process & Product Analysis, Negotiation, Business Entrepreneurship.
Presenting Business Analysis strategy to clients | Creating Power Point slide packs containing engaging visuals to depict business analysis strategy.
🤝 Leading Business Analysis ways of working and best practices | Building a great relationship with clients whereby they trust my opinion and work outputs.
🤝 Coaching and mentoring junior team members | Taking the initiative to support junior members on projects to maintain quality of output and keeping up morale.
📊 Structuring product backlogs | Implementing sprint structure – Epics, Features, User Stories & Tasks so its clear for developers and the scrum team to see where they are with development.
📊 Conducting thorough gap analysis | Actively seeking clarity where a deeper understanding is required via my friendly and professional manner.
📊 User story validation with stakeholders | Acting as the driving force behind understanding a wide range of product requirements and refining/prioritizing them with multidisciplinary stakeholder input.
📊 Process analysis and improvement | Using BPMN and UML where appropriate to model business processes, and marking areas for further analysis and improvements based on the business need.
📊 Facilitating Requirement Workshops | Using white board tools like Mural where suitable to gather input, being an active listener while managing to keep conversation constructive/on topic and keeping participants engaged.
📊 Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective) | Handling multiple roles (BA & Scrum Master), taking the initiative during sprint ceremonies, and collaborating with other members.
🤝 Working closely with UX and UI design Teams | Ensuring to use my knowledge and expertise of the business need to validate designs and ensure all key requirements are thought through.
Law LLB Hons with Business Law
BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering
BCS Certificate in Business Analysis Practice
BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile
BCS Certificate in Modelling Business Processes
Prince 2 Foundation In Project Management