Michael Page - Technical Business Analyst - Unit 4 / Agresso

About Our Client

The client sits within the Higher Education space.

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

• Take responsibility for business analysis activities on the project - planning and managing the analysis work to fit in with wider project plans.
• Manage the elicitation, documentation, prioritisation, validation and sign-off of business and technical requirements and their acceptance criteria.
• Work with stakeholders to analyse, model and document finance-related business processes, data flows, systems, and system integration.
• Plan, manage and facilitate on-site, hybrid and remote meetings, interviews, workshops and other business analysis activities.
• Analyse information gathered from multiple stakeholders, pro-actively identifying gaps, resolving conflicts and challenging constructively when needed.
• Work with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria for requirements.
• Work with the IT systems lead, data and enterprise architects to ensure that analysis outputs meet with ITS standards.
• Prepare user acceptance testing scenarios and test cases.
• Support user acceptance testing activities, liaising between users, stakeholders, and development teams.
• Collaborate with the project manager to identify and log project risks and contribute to project highlight reporting as required.
• Ensure that the analysis adheres to all relevant policies and systems, ensuring any audit requirements and institutional standards are met.
• Set up and lead multi-disciplinary groups as and when required.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders throughout the project.
• Present findings, updates, or reports both verbally and in written format, to key stakeholders, senior managers, the project team and/or project board.

The Successful Applicant

The successful candidate will have the following experience:

• Proven experience as a business analyst working on previous complex technical migration/transformation projects
• Previous experience of carrying out business analysis on projects involving finance/ERP systems and for cloud migrations
• Significant experience of systems and process analysis including producing diagrams, maps and models, documenting data flows and system integration
• Previous experience of all aspects of business analysis including requirements elicitation, documentation, prioritisation and validation, definition of acceptance criteria and data analysis
• Experience of facilitating on-site, hybrid and remote meetings workshops, meetings and interviews.
• Experience of working on multiple workstreams/projects at the same time within a complex programme

Desirable skills/experience:

• Experience as a business analyst in a Higher Education environment
• Experience of Unit 4 / Agresso

What's on Offer

This role is an initial contract through to end of July 2025 but may be extended.

It is a hybrid role requiring 60% of the time on-site in Liverpool with 40% of the time remote.

It is also outside IR35.