Business Analyst

• Location: Ballina Co. Mayo (Hybrid Working Model)
  Contract / Permanent: 12 Months with Further Extensions
  Start date: April 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter
  
  About the role:
  The client is seeking to procure the services of a Business Analyst (BA). The Business Analyst (BA) works within the CLIENTs Design Authority (DA) on the client enterprise architecture which comprises the business architecture technical architecture and information architecture functions within the organization.
  The BA identifies business requirements and processes in line with the Design Authoritys aims to:
  Leads the review and analysis of the organizations business intentions services processes and information needs to identify changes that lead to business improvements.
  Enable innovation by increasing the ability to change and transform.
  Standardize and mitigate risk by identifying common business solutions that can be used across the organisation to enable delivery of the CLIENT mission.
  Reduce technology cost and complexity by coordinating eliminating non-value adding solutions identifying common components and reuse opportunities.
  Improve business capabilities by being able to invest in common aspects eliminating any duplication and ensure learnings and benefits are shared across the organisation.
  Realise the organisations strategy and transform the business by providing integral blueprints and landscapes for the strategically required capabilities solutions and information and guide projects to deliver them.
  Establishes the contribution that technology can make to business objectives defining strategies validating and justifying business needs.
  Conducts feasibility studies producing high-level and detailed business models.
  Prepares detailed specifications and oversees development and implementation of solutions taking into account the implications of change on the organisation and all stakeholders.
  Liaises with management regarding the delivery of process and organisational change.
  
  Mandatory Requirements (Pass/Fail)
  Experience (Minimum Requirement)
  Minimum 4 years relevant experience in a Business Analysis role
  Experience on large-scale technical transformation or systems implementation programmes
  Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams
  Candidates with less than 4 years experience will not be considered.
  Qualifications
  A formal qualification in Business Analysis (or related discipline)
  Minimum Level 8 (or higher) on the National Framework of Qualifications (or equivalent international qualification)
  Availability
  Must be available to start in April 2026 (or shortly thereafter)
  English Language Requirement
  Native English speaker OR
  CEFR Level C2 (Mastery/Proficiency) certification
  If certification is not available but fluency is evident this may be assessed during presentation stage.
  
  Key Deliverable: The following non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables are applicable to this Role.
  
• Create update and maintain consistent design patterns and decisions across the organisation to support the corporate plan themes
  
• Identify document and manage the needs and requirements of the business and other stake holders by liaising directly with business users and process owners in order to understand and prioritise business requirements.
  
• Analyse requirements and collaborate closely with stakeholders developers suppliers to create the detailed Functional Design and Process Design documents to support project delivery.
  
• Assess capability gaps identify relationships and dependencies between new and existing systems and evaluate proposed solutions against enterprise architecture principles and objectives.
  
• Produce appropriate documentation to ensure understanding and facilitate sign-off by using Plain English diagrams process flows other techniques and scenarios etc.
  
• Provide necessary guidance on business requirements and design documents to the development team and user acceptance test team
  
• Develop business analysis communication and requirements management plans participate in and potentially lead design planning meetings and work with project managers to define the business analysis tasks for a project.
  
• Manage business requirements and process mapping across the RSAs business units using interviews document analysis requirements workshops surveys site visits business process descriptions scenarios business analysis and workflow analysis concepts.
  Assist the business in determining which requirements and processes can be made more efficient automated simplified eliminated etc.
  Work with the project manager and project team to ensure that acceptability criteria are being met and to manage scope creep and change requests.
  Support best practice by introducing new business analysis tools document templates and checklists for the team.
• Support and participate in multiple projects of varying type and complexity drafting and updating relevant documentation as required.
  
• Work full project lifecycle involving both Waterfall and Agile development approaches as required
  
• Review artefacts produced by third parties including design documentation user stories diagrams process flows scenarios etc to ensure that they meet expected CLIENT standards
  

Requirements

Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets:The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.