Business Analyst at J & C Associates Ltd – Knutsford, UK

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of the project to plan, budget and agreed quality and governance standards.
• Manage suppliers in line with agreed contractual obligations, milestones and quality standards.
• Provide effective communications and relationship building with key senior stakeholders within technology, operations and product and provide Project status reporting that is accurate, informative and timely.
• Own and drive the effective governance of the Project.
• Own and drive the Project planning framework, ensuring that plans are developed and tracked to appropriate standards.
• Control the Project scope, ensuring that rigorous change control is exercised.
• Ensure the project meets the expected requirements and that acceptance and handover to business as usual are managed against agreed acceptance criteria and to a defined plan.
• Define project budgets, obtain funding and track actual expenditure to ensure the project remains on track from a financial perspective.
• Knowledge of SWIFT and SWIFT infrastructures.
• Has operated in roles facing off directly to senior Stakeholders. A track record of successfully managing stakeholder relationships is definitely preferred.
• Previous experience of managing payments related projects.
• Ability to manage and deliver Projects in a business that is undergoing a high degree of organisational and strategic change.
• Formal external qualification/accreditation to Prince II or PMI methodologies, or at least experience of Prince II/PMI in a project environment