Senior Business Functional Analyst

Project description

Our customer is a top-tier investment bank with client assets of hundreds of billion globally.

Reason to join us

• We offer the opportunity to work in a highly professional environment where you will work with high-level financial instruments
• We want you to be part of our success story and give you reasons to be proud of what you achieved as part of our fabulous team
• We give you the opportunity to develop yourself and evolve in your career via our fantastic technical, business-related or soft skills training
• We encourage creative-thinking in our great open-minded work environment. Frequently the relaxation rooms are the place where the most ambitions ideas are born.
• We are not just professional teams, we are also friends that have fun working together
• If you are an active person and you feel motivated by the creation/development of the software solutions, then this is the place to be, you will not get bored.

As a Senior Business Analyst (f/m/x), you will bridge business needs and technology solutions by designing, analysing, and delivering business processes, workflow solutions, and AI-enabled capabilities. You will work across the full project lifecycle, from discovery and requirements gathering to implementation, validation, and business readiness.

The role combines traditional business analysis, process design, workflow automation, and emerging agentic AI solutions, including HR-focused use cases. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, engineers, architects, and governance teams to ensure solutions deliver measurable business value while meeting enterprise standards for security, control, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Key Responsibilities

  Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Elicit, analyse, document, and validate business requirements.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Create clear and comprehensive documentation, including process flows, BPMN diagrams, use cases, presentations, specifications, and workflow designs.
• Ensure requirements are understood by both business and technical stakeholders.

  Process Design & Improvement

• Analyse current-state processes and design future-state business workflows.
• Identify process optimization opportunities through automation and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Conduct impact assessments for proposed changes across processes, systems, and organizational structures.
• Support business units in defining efficient and scalable operating models.

  Workflow & Agentic Solutions

• Support the design and implementation of workflow-based and agent-driven solutions.
• Define user interactions, workflow exceptions, decision points, and agent behaviours.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements.
• Contribute to AI-enabled initiatives, including information retrieval, document processing, and workflow automation use cases.
• Support HR process transformation initiatives where applicable.

  Validation & Quality Assurance

• Define acceptance scenarios and business success criteria.
• Validate solutions against requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Assess risks, dependencies, assumptions, and implementation impacts.
• Support testing, user acceptance activities, and deployment readiness.

  Stakeholder Management & Leadership

• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements discussions.
• Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders, Product Owners, developers, architects, and governance teams.
• Provide guidance on business analysis methodologies, process modelling approaches, and delivery practices.
• Lead selected initiatives from discovery through implementation and business adoption.
• Support collaboration across international and virtual teams.

SKILLS

Must have

• Essential
• Several years of experience as a Business Analyst in technology, workflow automation, digital transformation, or enterprise change initiatives.
• Strong experience gathering requirements and converting business needs into functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with process modelling techniques such as BPMN, process mapping, and workflow design.
• Proven stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.
• Experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

  Preferred

• Experience with workflow platforms and process automation solutions.
• Knowledge of AI agents, Generative AI, and agentic business processes.
• Experience with HR processes and HR technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience in banking, consulting, or large enterprise environments.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• German language skills are an advantage.
• Academic degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

  Success Profile

  The ideal candidate combines:

• Strong traditional Business Analysis capabilities.
• Process design and workflow expertise.
• Experience leading business-facing initiatives.
• Curiosity and interest in AI-enabled business solutions.
• Ability to connect business objectives with practical and scalable technology implementations.

Nice to have

• SQL
• REST API design
• Data Flow Diagrams
• Data visualization
• Postman
• Project management experience
• German language