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And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.\nAbout EY\nAt EY, our purpose is Building a better working world. It acts as our “North Star”, providing context and meaning for the work we do every day. We help digital pioneers address emerging risks, support governments and businesses through transformation, unlock value from data and technology, and strengthen trust in business and financial markets.\nThrough our integrated service lines of Assurance, Consulting, Strategy and Transactions, and Tax, together with deep knowledge of sectors, we help clients capitalize on new opportunities, assess and manage risk, and deliver responsible growth. EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a global delivery network that brings together professionals across disciplines and locations to deliver technology, business, and operational solutions.\nAbout the Opportunity\nWe are seeking an experienced and delivery-focused Supervising Associate - Business Analyst to join the ES - MENA Technology team. The role will serve as a bridge between business stakeholders, product owners, project managers, solution architects, developers, and quality assurance teams.\nThe successful candidate will lead requirement discovery, business process analysis, documentation, stakeholder alignment, solution validation, and requirements lifecycle management across technology initiatives. The role requires the flexibility to take ownership of, coordinate, or directly support quality assurance activities when project needs require it.\nRole Purpose\nTranslate business needs into clear, traceable, testable, and implementation-ready specifications while helping delivery teams build solutions that meet stakeholder expectations, quality standards, and intended business outcomes.\nPrimary Responsibilities\nBusiness Analysis and Requirements Management\nPlan and lead requirements elicitation through workshops, interviews, discovery sessions, process walkthroughs, observation, document analysis, and other appropriate techniques.\nAnalyze business problems, pain points, opportunities, and operating constraints, and translate them into well-defined business and solution requirements.\nCreate and maintain business requirements documents, functional specifications, user stories, use cases, process flows, data requirements, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability matrices.\nCreate wireframes, mock-ups, process visualizations, and low-fidelity prototypes to facilitate requirement validation, stakeholder alignment, and solution design discussions.\nEnsure requirements are complete, consistent, feasible, unambiguous, prioritized, traceable, and testable.\nManage the requirements lifecycle, including baselining, change control, impact assessment, stakeholder review, approval, and traceability through delivery and testing.\nFacilitate current-state and future-state analysis, gap assessments, root-cause analysis, and business process improvement.\nTranslate complex business needs into actionable specifications for product, engineering, data, integration, and testing teams.\nProduct and Solution Delivery\nContribute to business case development, investment justification, and strategic decision-making by evaluating business needs, solution options, costs, risks, and expected benefits.\nPartner with product owners and delivery leads to shape product backlogs, define priorities, clarify scope, and support roadmap and release planning.\nParticipate in Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily coordination, reviews, and retrospectives, as applicable.\nCollaborate with architects and developers to clarify requirements, evaluate solution options, resolve requirement gaps, and support informed trade-off decisions.\nSupport change readiness, release readiness, deployment planning, and post-implementation validation.\nPromote AI-assisted requirements engineering, structured specification practices, reusable templates, and consistent analysis standards, with appropriate human review and validation.\nQuality Assurance and Testing\nDefine measurable acceptance criteria and confirm that functional and non-functional requirements are testable.\nDevelop, review, or refine test scenarios, test cases, test data needs, and expected results based on approved requirements.\nParticipate in or coordinate system integration testing, regression testing, business validation, and user acceptance testing.\nValidate test coverage against requirements and maintain bidirectional traceability between requirements, acceptance criteria, test cases, and defects.\nSupport defect triage, severity and priority discussions, root-cause analysis, retesting, and closure validation.\nWhen required, perform hands-on functional testing and assume QA coordination responsibilities to support delivery commitments.\nCollaborate with QA and engineering teams on test automation opportunities, quality controls, and continuous improvement of testing practices.\nStakeholder Management and Leadership\nBuild effective working relationships with business and technology stakeholders across MENA, GDS, and global teams.\nFacilitate decisions, manage competing priorities, and communicate requirement impacts, dependencies, risks, and unresolved questions clearly.\nPresent analysis, recommendations, process models, and requirement artifacts to senior stakeholders in a concise and business-focused manner.\nProvide guidance, peer review, and mentoring to junior business analysts and contribute to capability-building initiatives.\nDemonstrate ownership, professional judgment, accountability, and a quality-first approach throughout the delivery lifecycle.\nKnowledge Management and Continuous Improvement\nContribute reusable requirement assets, user story patterns, checklists, process models, test artifacts, and lessons learned to shared repositories.\nIdentify opportunities to improve business analysis, requirements governance, quality assurance, and delivery practices.\nMaintain awareness of emerging technologies, AI-enabled delivery methods, business analysis practices, and relevant industry trends.\nSkills and Attributes for Success\nStrong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and decision-support skills.\nExcellent workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, negotiation, and influencing capabilities.\nClear written and verbal communication, with the ability to adapt messages for technical and non-technical audiences.\nStrong attention to detail, structured documentation skills, and commitment to quality.\nAbility to work independently, manage ambiguity, and coordinate multiple priorities with minimal supervision.\nBusiness process analysis and modelling capability, with a practical understanding of controls, exceptions, dependencies, and data flows.\nLearning agility, adaptability, collaboration, ownership, and accountability.\nAbility to balance business value, user experience, delivery constraints, risk, and technical feasibility.\nTo Qualify for the Role, You Must Have\nA bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline.\n7-12 years of industry experience, including at least 5 years of relevant domain experience in business analysis, product analysis, functional consulting, product ownership, or a comparable role.\nDemonstrated experience in requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, prioritization, traceability, and change management.\nHands-on experience creating business requirements documents, functional specifications, user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, process flows, data requirements, and traceability matrices.\nExperience working across the software development lifecycle and within Agile or hybrid delivery environments.\nPractical knowledge of software testing lifecycle activities, including functional testing, system integration testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing, defect management, and test traceability.\nExperience facilitating stakeholder workshops and working with cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.\nWorking knowledge of lifecycle and collaboration tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, or equivalent platforms.\nAbility and willingness to take up QA coordination and hands-on functional testing responsibilities when required.\nIdeally, You’ll Also Have\nIIBA CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, PSPO, CSPO, ISTQB, or a relevant equivalent certification.\nExperience supporting enterprise application delivery, digital transformation, shared services, consulting, finance, tax, risk, HR, or other business domains.\nExposure to AI-assisted requirements analysis, specification-driven delivery, low-code platforms, Power Platform, Power BI, or Copilot-enabled solutions.\nExperience with test automation concepts, QA governance, business process improvement, or change management.\nWhat We Look For\nWe look for a proactive and outcome-oriented professional who combines strong business analysis capability with a quality-first mindset. The successful candidate will be comfortable moving between stakeholder engagement, process analysis, requirements definition, user story development, solution clarification, test planning, hands-on functional validation, and delivery coordination. The individual should be able to lead through influence, adapt to changing priorities, and maintain high standards of traceability, governance, and stakeholder communication.\nRole Success Indicators\nRequirements are clear, approved, traceable, implementation-ready, and supported by measurable acceptance criteria.\nStakeholders have timely visibility of scope, decisions, dependencies, risks, and open questions.\nDelivery and QA teams receive sufficient clarification and testable specifications to minimize avoidable rework.\nTest coverage aligns with approved requirements, and defects are managed through effective triage and validation.\nReusable analysis and quality practices improve consistency across the MENA Technology delivery portfolio.\nWorking Style\nThe role requires flexibility to operate across concurrent initiatives, collaborate across time zones, and adjust the balance between business analysis and QA responsibilities according to delivery priorities. 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