Term: 12 months Location:? Hybrid - mandatory onsite Haymarket, Smithfield, 2 days Start Date:? Immediate Salary: €500 Daily Rate Position Overview:?The Business Analyst will play a crucial role in supporting the organization's business transformation initiatives. This role involves working closely with various stakeholders to ensure that business needs are met through effective analysis, documentation, and implementation of technology solutions. Key Responsibilities: Manage and contribute to business analysis initiatives within Transport Regulation directorate Support the implementation of solutions (technology and organisational) in a cost-effective way; Create and maintain key business analysis documents (e.g. Business Analysis approach, Requirements Management Plan, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Business Process documents, Business Requirement Specifications, etc); Manage the requirements governance framework from initiation through verification, validation and completion; Plan, arrange and facilitate requirements workshops across all phases of the project with relevant stakeholders (internal and external); Support programme and project planning across all phases; Provide relevant input to test strategy, planning and execution and provide assistance to business users in UAT. Manage the analysis and troubleshooting of problems relating to the solution with the business and technical teams by contributing to the priorities for problem resolution, monitoring progress and applying the appropriate escalation procedures; Support the development of the BA function within the team providing experience and advice on clear processes, procedures, templates and governance. Professional Attributes: Manage stakeholder relationships at all levels of the organisation, including Directors, Heads of Business, Project Team, Business Units and third party suppliers; Take a holistic view of business situations, ensuring stakeholder perspectives are identified and analysed to achieve consensus, aligning business objectives and requirements with recommended solutions. Demonstrate up to date knowledge of business analysis trends in terms of best practice approach, processes and tools; Qualifications/Education/Experience: Essential Hold a minimum of a NFQ degree level qualification; At least 3 years of experience as a Business Analyst. At least 5 projects/product/solutions end-to-end experience of SDLC; Desirable Recognized Business Analyst accreditation. (IIBA, BCS, PMI, etc) Have demonstrable Agile skills; Have demonstrable project management skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources; Experience with Requirement Management Tools. Additional Business Analysis Tasks: Translate complex business requirements into functional / technical specifications / or use cases (with acceptance criteria); Conduct As-Is / Current State / Gap analysis; Conduct As-Is and To-Be process mapping; Perform root cause analysis of problems and work closely with business users to identify and translate their needs into solution designs and system specifications; Act as a subject matter expert, transfer knowledge to others and provide advice to relevant stakeholders on the business solution; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Skilled communication bridge between IT and business stakeholders, representing business challenges and requirements clearly to technical resources. Strong analytical ability and logical approach to problem-solving.