Business Analyst
Job Description
Job title: Business Analyst
Company: Phoebus Software
Job description: Be part of something special, join Phoebus.
Technology shapes the way we live our lives. How we work, learn, move and communicate, and with our technology expertise and talented individuals, Phoebus has been bringing a new market leading contemporary product to life, coming together to change the way financial systems and mortgage services operate forever.
We are seeking a skilled Business Analyst to join Phoebus as part of an Agile team, bringing their own expertise and can expect to be supported by the wider team. At a time where Phoebus are experiencing rapid growth, there is no better time for you to join to develop your career with an evolving company.
We are ideally looking for somebody who can start with the team in January 2024.
About us
Phoebus Software Limited is a market leading provider of flexible, financial systems and services. These augment all aspects of lending and savings servicing capabilities for our clients, which include retail banks, mortgage/lending providers, mortgage administration servicing companies and building societies.
It is a fantastic time to join us. Phoebus Software has achieved recognition as the 16th Best Technology Company to work for in the UK and Top 50 UK Midsized companies through our colleague engagement levels.
If you are looking for your next big career adventure, you have come to the right place. Phoebus have an excellent reputation, continuous growth plans, up to date technologies and our people are at the heart of the business, we put an importance on our employee’s well-being.
We dedicate ourselves to promoting a happy working environment, we know that it all starts with our people and the rest will follow. Phoebus has also adopted a hybrid working approach as we understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.
We are based in the heart of Solihull, just a stone’s throw away from touchwood shopping centre where there are several restaurants that you can take advantage of with your quarterly company paid for quarterly team meals, retail shops and many coffee shops to take a walk to on your lunch break or after work. We also have on-site parking facilities and are a short walk from the train station.
The Role
Phoebus relies on our Business Analyst’s to ensure clients get the most out of our services. We require our Business Analyst’s to have a rare blend of domain knowledge (business and technical) and superb communications skills to engage with clients at all stages of the lifecycle.
The key responsibilities will include:
- Participating in and facilitating workshops as part of project initiation.
- Collaborate with clients to gather and understand requirements.
- Capturing requirements in an unambiguous way to aid the development process.
- Create and maintain epics, features, and user stories in Jira in line with PSL standards.
- Work closely with Product Owner to understand the business needs and goals to prioritise the backlog.
- Collaborate with the scrum team to identify options and propose alternative solutions to meet client business requirements.
- Work closely with the scrum team to form the Acceptance Criteria and using methodologies such as Business Driven Development (BDD).
- Perform system gap analysis on the Phoebus application where required.
- Work with Product Owner and/or Project Manager to manage client expectations.
- Support the estimation process, working with the scrum team to produce ballpark estimates and/or story points as part of the sprint refinement sessions.
- Review and update client release notes.
- Support clients in UAT phase.
- Communicate releases to PSL support team before going live.
About you
We are ideally looking for somebody with two years’ experience working in a Business Analyst or Functional Consultant position or similar. It is advantageous to come from a financial lending services background (mortgages, unsecured lending, commercial lending, deposits, asset finance, origination, and servicing) either within a financial service company or a supplier to the industry.
You will be expected to demonstrate experience as a business analyst using standard based methodologies such as Waterfall or Agile. We are looking for somebody with experience of authoring high quality functional documentation and contributing to technical documentation. We need you to be a self-motivator who also is comfortable and committed to working in a team environment within a development team and alongside other BA’s.
Phoebus Perks: Why work with us?
If you are passionate about learning and development and have a desire to help others grow and succeed, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
🏥 Private Health care scheme including dental, optical, and mental health cover
💪🏼 Wellbeing Choice – £350.00 per annum paid towards wellbeing activities of your choice
🙂 Life assurance scheme at 4x salary
💟 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
💻 Flexible hybrid working
💰 Contributory Pension Scheme with Scottish Widows
🏝 33 days Holiday, including 8 bank holidays (5 of which are flexible bank holidays) & Holiday purchase scheme up to 5 days.
💰 Discretionary annual salary review & bonus
🚗 Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
🎂 Events & gifts to celebrate Long Service and Birthdays & social events
Our Phoebus Values
At Phoebus we are driven by our purpose and values, building our team with the right people is fundamental to our business & culture.
Our Purpose: ‘To care about our clients, our product, our people and having fun’
Our DONE values are made up of the following and we strive to live our values daily when working with colleagues and clients.
Dedicated, Open, No Nonsense, Excellence
Phoebus Software Limited is an equal opportunity employer. We commit ourselves to being an inclusive and diverse workplace. Our working culture embraces and celebrates what makes us unique. We would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments required during the recruitment process as we would like everybody to have a fair opportunity to succeed in what they do best.
