Finance Business Analyst

Role Summary
The business analyst is responsible for helping to maintain the product appeal for their area of the product. This is achieved by working with the Product Manager to assess changing market needs and customer enhancement requests, translating the most strategic into product functionality.
The other key aspect of the role is product communication. This includes marketing the features and benefits of the product area to internal and external audiences to enforce the product’s position as the leading DMS product.

Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To maintain a thorough understanding of the current Dealer Management System products in the area of Finance and Environment, and maintain requirement definitions for any new development, either long or short term
- Perform an ongoing product enhancement review and document the results for the Finance and Environment aspects of the product
- Review all enhancement requests in the Finance and Environment area and respond to them in terms of queries and eventual acceptance or rejection
- Validate the functionality of new and enhanced software provided by the development department
- Assist in the development of release notes and other documentation for new and enhanced software to agreed standards and time scales
- Prepare and deliver on-line training for sales & marketing, plus implementation & support on product benefits & return on investment
- Assist in hand-over training of new releases to support analysts and implementation consultants designated for acceptance testing
- Assist in the training and implementation in either new market pilots or pilot versions of new software including attendance at customer sites in the UK and abroad
- Attend any pre and post-sales customer and/or franchise meetings that may be necessary
- Ensure that all their policies and processes that impact product marketing are adhered to
- Ensure that all documentation development is secured on a daily basis and backed-up to an off-line media regularly (minimum once per week)

Job Function Competencies
1.  Managing Enhancement Requests
- Maintain a balanced focus between the expectations of customers and the best interests of the client
- Develop clearly structured functional requirements documentation for each accepted enhancement request so that this can be used by R&D for development and testing

2.  Market and Product Understanding
- Maintain a good understanding of the business and process requirements of the retail and wholesale automotive industry for which we provide IT solutions
- Maintain a thorough knowledge of the product functionality of the application area of the product that you are responsible for

3.  Project Management
- Proper utilisation of the SPACE project management system in order to manage collections of enhancements requests to an agreed deliverable

4.  Product Communication
- The production of clear and concise product marketing materials for internal and external audiences that make clear the features and benefits to their customers of using our products

Experience and/or Qualifications Required:
- A working knowledge of the retail and wholesale automotive distribution process, especially in the area of vehicle management
- A full understanding of current MS applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
- A good understanding of current and future operating systems (UNIX, MS Windows etc.)
- A good understanding of current and future application development tools (KCML etc.)
- An appreciation of the techniques used to market products and services
- Experience in either a sales or marketing related role would be advantageous

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