Senior Business Analyst - Deadline 05/11/26

• Evaluate business context, drivers, and expected outcomes to ensure alignment with strategic goals and stakeholder expectations. • Elicit, validate, and document business needs using structured techniques to ensure clarity and traceability. • Assess current and target business models to identify value streams, capabilities, and operational impacts. • Map and evaluate existing processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities using industry-standard techniques. • Create visual representations of workflows using standard notations to support analysis, communication, and solution design. • Compare current and desired states to identify capability gaps, improvement areas, and potential solutions. • Convert business requirements into functional specifications that guide solution design and development. • Identify, assess, and document risks related to business processes, systems, and change initiatives, including mitigation strategies. • Contribute to strategic documentation that defines scope, objectives, value proposition, and governance for initiatives (e.g. business cases, vision documents, charters, and security plans). • Develop clear deliverables such as Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specifications, and User Stories with acceptance criteria. • Define and manage acceptance criteria; support test case design and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure requirements are met. • Maintain requirements traceability (e.g., story/feature with test case) and manage change requests throughout the lifecycle. • Document non-functional requirements (NFRs) (e.g., performance, security, usability) alongside functional requirements. • Facilitate cross-functional communication among stakeholders, developers, and testers to ensure shared understanding and alignment. SPECIFIC EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGIES • Good knowledge of information systems matters. • Good knowledge of large organisation administrative business processes. • Experience with enterprise software development in large-scale, complex information systems. • Knowledge of analysis and modelling techniques aligned with BABOK and IEEE 29148, including user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, state diagrams, and entity relationship models. • Good knowledge of BPMN or UML or equivalent modelling approaches. • Good knowledge of diagramming, modelling and wireframing tools (e.g. Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, UML, BPMN, Axure, Balsamiq, Pencil). • Knowledge of software development and governance methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, RUP, and ITIL. • Experience with requirements management tools such as Jira or GitLab, including backlog practices (epics, user stories). • Practical knowledge of Model Grant Agreements and programme-specific rules such as Horizon Europe, LIFE, and Digital Europe for Grant Agreement preparation, amendments, and reporting. • Awareness of European Commission compliance requirements such as GDPR for participant data, eIDAS for digital signatures, and financial audit trails. • Experience interpreting European Commission call documentation such as Work Programmes and Guides for Applicants to extract system requirements. • Proficiency in requirements management, software development and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint and GitLab for creating, managing, and prioritising epics, user stories, backlogs, acceptance criteria and documentation. • Ability to use data analysis tools such as SQL and Excel to assess usage patterns and identify user needs. • Experience with system integrations, including APIs and manual data imports. • Knowledge of testing methodologies for validating functionalities, including UAT scripts and regression testing. SKILLS • Ability to onboard quickly, understand context, and contribute with minimal supervision. • Ability to prepare business analysis deliverables while facilitating stakeholder input. • Ability to tailor communication to business and technical audiences. • Proficiency in synthesising complex information into clear presentations for senior stakeholders. • Ability to apply structured analysis techniques to support evidence-based decisions. • Ability to balance strategic alignment with detailed requirements and solution design. • Ability to apply high quality standards. • Ability to participate in multilingual meetings. • Ability to build trust and influence decision-making. • Ability to work in a team as well as autonomously. • Results-oriented mindset, focused on delivering. • Effective leadership and team management skills. Level : Senior Delivery mode: Near Site (Brussels) Deadline 05/11/26