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We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Business Analyst to join our client's IT division. This role requires a strategic thinker who can provide analysis and leadership on complex, high-priority initiatives that are fundamental to our organization’s digital transformation. The successful candidate will be a proactive partner who can quickly acclimate to the environment, build strong relationships, and deliver immediate value within a compressed timeframe. You will be responsible for providing strategic business analysis services and will be expected to mentor a team of business analysts. This position requires a blend of technical expertise, data analysis, and exceptional communication skills to serve as a vital link between business needs and technological solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Analysis and Planning: Proactively investigate and identify business problems and opportunities from an end-to-end perspective. Conduct a comprehensive current-state analysis, define future-state goals, and perform gap and feasibility analysis to inform the project roadmap.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Management: Act as a central liaison and translator, bridging the gap between business teams, senior stakeholders, and technical delivery teams (including product managers, data scientists, and vendors). Build and maintain strong relationships, manage expectations, and effectively negotiate competing priorities to secure consensus and drive outcomes through influence.
- Leadership and Team Oversight: Oversee and coordinate the work of the business analysis team, providing coaching, mentorship, and guidance to junior and mid-level analysts. Your leadership will be crucial in ensuring the team’s work is aligned with overall program objectives and best practices are adopted.
- Operational Excellence: Apply a synergistic approach of Agile and Lean principles to analyze, re-engineer, and document complex business processes. Identify areas for continuous improvement and automation, and define the tools and methodologies required to support the Lean Delivery lifecycle.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data profiling and other analytical techniques to ensure data is reliable, accurate, and credible for business decisions. Transform raw data into a cohesive story, providing actionable insights and recommendations that address business needs and challenges.
- Project Documentation and Deliverables: Produce and maintain a range of critical project artifacts, including Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), business cases, user stories, use cases, and wireframes. Ensure quality and traceability of all deliverables throughout the project lifecycle.
- Tool Proficiency: Leverage modern project management and collaboration tools, such as Jira and Confluence, to manage requirements, user stories, and workflows.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Education: A bachelor’s degree in Management, Business Analytics, IT or a related field is required.
- Certifications: Professional certifications such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) are highly preferred.
- Core Skills: Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and negotiation abilities. A strategic mindset with the capability to think beyond individual projects to broader business objectives.
- Languages: Proficiency in English (written and spoken) is required. Proficiency in Cantonese and Putonghua is a strong advantage.
- Professional Background: A minimum of 8 years of experience in a business analysis role within a large corporation is essential.
- Methodology Expertise: Proven experience in implementing and delivering projects using Agile methodologies and Lean principles.
- Technical Acumen: Experience with IT project management tools, including Jira and Confluence. Understanding of IT risk, cybersecurity governance, and regulatory frameworks.
If this outstanding opportunity sounds like your next career move, please send your resume in Word format to Harry Tsang at resume[at]pinpointasia.com and put Business Analyst, Senior Manager - Transformation Programme in the subject header. Data provided is for recruitment purposes only.
Pinpoint Asia is the leading specialist Financial IT recruitment firm in the Asia Pacific region. Visit Pinpoint Asia’s website at pinpointasia.com today to see other exciting job opportunities.
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