Average Business Analyst salary in Belfast

Are you looking to start a career as a Business Analyst (BA) and need tailored recruitment support and the right qualifications to secure your career? A business analyst is a problem solver who for example investigates an issue or area of weakness within an organisation, analyses solutions and helps facilitate the change that is needed. If you enjoy problem solving and analysing, have good admin skills and communicate well, then a career in this rewarding sector will suit you. Demand for junior business analysts continues to soar as organisations need to evolve and stay competitive in an everchanging world. We specialise in placing candidates in the business analysis, change management and project management sectors that have qualified through our business analysis study and placement program. Please note we will be looking to place you in an entry level role so this programme is not aimed at existing Business Analysts. In addition to a new career, you gain a minimum of 4 new internationally recognised qualifications while being fully supported by a team of tutors, mentors, and your own recruitment consultant. The team works with you until you are qualified and placed. Below are salaries in this sector starting at lower-level positions: Administrator/Support: £26,000Junior Business Analyst: £30,000Change Analyst: £35,000Systems Analyst: £40,000Business Analyst: £50,000Senior Business Analyst: £60,000 Using our experience in providing UK and internationally accredited Business Analysis training online and through our expert recruitment consultants, we provide a seamless journey and often fast-tracked route into a new career in the BA sector. How do we do this? 1. Firstly, we place you on a training program which contains the most relevant industry recognised certification courses needed in the industry like the BCS Business Analysis Foundation Course. You can also opt to study the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis to take your studies a step further. 2. Once you have passed the 4 required exams you will be handed over to our recruitment team who will provide you with a professional CV and LinkedIn review, interview support, career advice and tailored support like mock interviews. 3. Our consultants work with you to identify the best opportunities available suited to you. Their tailored support helps you to prepare for interviews and perform at your best. Typically, you will start in a junior business analyst, junior analyst or a support/admin role in this sector. Business Analysts work closely with Project Managers and Change Managers and opportunities in these areas also exist which broadens the net in these sister sectors. To accommodate candidates, the training element of this package is available on finance terms to easily spread the cost of investing in your career. This enables you to get qualified without having to fund all the training costs upfront. In addition, we are so confident in our success with placing qualified candidates that we will refund the cost of the courses to anyone we are unable to place within 12 months of passing their required exams subject to our terms. To get your journey started, enquire now and one of our experienced Course and Career Consultants will contact you within 4 working hours to answer any questions that you may have and to assist you in taking the first step toward your new career aspirations. We understand this is an important and life changing decision and will provide you with all the information to make an informed decision. Our team looks forward to your enquiry and helping you start a new and financially rewarding career.

Group Overview:The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world's leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world's most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist. Role Overview:The Senior Technical Business Analyst (STBA) will elicit, understand and document Functional and Non-Functional requirements whilst working closely with senior stakeholders within the TP ICAP Business, Corporate and Technology teams. The STBA will ensure, together with the project team, that requirements are accurately translated into a Roadmap with Milestones and User Stories. The STBA will work on complex Order Management and Deal Management Systems, including integration with Enterprise services and third party systems. The STBA will analyse, understand and model existing business processes within the company and recommend improvements to ensure the effectiveness of the processes. Role Responsibilities:Requirements Analysis and Capture, Prioritisation, Estimation, SDLC and Delivery Work closely with the business product owners, business product analysts, and the development team, to ensure the delivery roadmap is in line with business prioritiesHelp the development teams identify Stories which can be grouped to form minimum viable deliveries in order to support the identification in order to deploy regularly to productionHelp team members understand the focus and delivery value of each milestone and each releaseBe capable of articulating the business requirements to support planning and estimationBe responsible for capturing business needs in user stories and use cases and ensure that here is sufficient detail to allow scope definition, estimation and prioritisationSupport the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisationBe proactive in supporting the team's engagement in a well defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needsSupport the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging domain and business knowledgeIdentify opportunities to consolidate deliveries so as to more effectively address root cause issues across multiple platforms or business productsChallenge the business on their assumptions of what they need to uncover what their problems actually are so that development will be equipped to propose more efficient or effective solutions, or at a minimum ensure deliveries are addressing root cause issuesEnsure that business prioritisation gates in the SDLC are utilised effectively by guiding the business product owners and analysts through the SDLC Communication and Leadership Work with the business product owners to shepherd their articulation of business needs and priorities and capture these using preferred tooling in recognised formats such as user stories and use casesParticipate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practiceSupport members of the software team in delivering high quality and innovative software solutions that meet business needs by working with team members at each stage in the feature lifecycle: estimation, prioritisation, test case analysis, development, testing, deploymentCollaborate with the development team, the PEs, TLs and TDMs and the business to establish and analyse trade-offs between usability and deliveryBe a liaison between the senior members of the business units, technology and support teamsBe supportive of other team members where possible and seek opportunities to mentor, and share experience and domain knowledge with other team membersSeek to become a subject matter expert for the business areas that are interfaced into and be able to support the wider team in their acquisition of knowledge in the general domain and in specific business products Change, Risk and Issue Management Identify and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriateWork with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actionsShare complex business needs or issues with other team members and influence their decision making where necessaryEnsure business risks are fully communicated and understoodAssist and facilitate prioritisation of software defects and enhancements Experience / Competences: Education/Professional Qualifications • Degree or equivalent industry experience Essential • Experience in a business analysis role in the delivery of complex systems • Experience of eliciting and capturing requirements, using user stories and use cases, in a software development environment for the delivery of complex systems • Enterprise system experience • Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role Desirable Education/Professional Qualifications • Relevant Masters or higher degree Experience • Experience of delivering platforms and services across multiple teams • Experience of multi-year projects from inception to maintenance • Experience of regulatory driven projects • Experience of mentoring colleagues and supporting colleague growth and advancement • Experience of transitioning applications and/or products from vendors or remote locations to local teams • Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products • Financial sector experience • Experience of using agile tooling to support team delivery • Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach • Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills #NIJobs Not The Perfect Fit?Concerned that you may not meet the criteria precisely? 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We are looking for an experienced Data Mapping and Reconciliation Business Analyst based in Belfast, to work on a client data quality and reconciliation transformation project within the Loans space. Who are we?  Treliant is a global consulting firm serving banks, mortgage originators and servicers, FinTechs, and other companies providing financial services. We are led by practitioners from the industry and the regulatory community who bring deep domain knowledge to help our clients drive business change and address the most pressing compliance, regulatory, and operational challenges. We provide data-driven, technology-enabled advisory, implementation, and staffing solutions to the regulatory compliance, risk, financial crimes, and capital markets functions of our clients. Founded in 2005, Treliant is headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in New York, London, Belfast, Northern Ireland and Lódz, Poland. For more information visit www.treliant.com. About the role  The scope and nature of the projects on which you’ll work will vary however, examples of duties/responsibilities include: Mapping data flows from circa 50 systems into the core Loans processing data repositoryData mappings and translationsPreparing and distributing mapping documentations beyond the data teamCreating presentations and written reports to effectively communicate findings and recommendationsConducting data analytics to support decision-making processesProviding streamline reporting, analytics and insights Collaborating with various teams to gather and define business requirementsA large focus of the work will be ensuring data integrity and validity, including validating the required automated reconciliations.Developing process flowsValidating data sourcesDefining and documenting business requirements and functional specifications Who are we looking for?  Qualifications & Experience Strong educational background – Degree (Masters would be an advantage)Demonstrated experience working as a Business Analyst (BA)Experience in data reconciliation and tracingAdvanced experience with Excel Data validation and presentation systems a plusExperience working with data flows, and mappings and translationsConfident writing mapping documents for a range of audiencesExperience of working on professional services projects, ideally for Investment Bank or a Big 4 consulting firmAbility to manage multiple tasks across various timelinesStrong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skillsDemonstrated independence, teamwork and leadership skillsExcellent communication skills across all levels of seniority Professional Skills  Communication – advanced interpersonal & communication skills.  Able to liaise confidently with senior stakeholders, either over the phone or via email  Team Player – able to work well within dynamic and goal-focused teams  Process Driven – able to become quickly proficient in new processes and systems  Detail-focused – very strong attention to detail  Multi-tasking – highly organized and able to balance various responsibilities simultaneously  Professionally Skeptical – able to identify and flag anomalies for review  Decision-making – ability to make decisions in a fast-paced and pressurized environment. Commitment – strong work ethic and delivery focused  Why Treliant?  Career Development - We put an emphasis on personal and professional growth by providing all the training you’ll need to become a highly skilled Treliant consultant. Programs cover Finance, Regulatory, Technology, and Operational aspects of investment banking.  On top of that, we also provide support in obtaining highly sought-after industry-recognised qualifications. Clients – As a Treliant consultant, you will be working with some of the top clients in the financial services marketplace, such as top tier Investment Banks.  Our roles place you at the cutting edge of the projects on which you’ll be working, and give you the opportunity to learn from, work with and build relationships with the very best within those companies. Rewards – Treliant offers our permanent staff an excellent compensation package.  Core Values – Whether you are a Client or an employee, Treliant wants the best for you.  All our relationships are based on our Core Values: Deliver Excellence, Constantly Innovate, Treasure Diversity, Be Nimble, Listen First, and Develop our People. Diversity & Inclusion – Treliant is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that values and embraces all races, religions, ages, abilities, gender, sexual orientations, ethnicities, languages, nationalities, political parties, socioeconomic groups and other characteristics that inform an individual worldwide view and experiences and systems of beliefs (“the principles”). We believe in championing every voice and ensuring everyone’s full potential. Right to Work  Treliant is not in the position to provide sponsorship for this current position and so applicants must be able to work in the United Kingdom without requiring sponsorship. Please note, Treliant receive a high volume of applications for all roles.??While we will endeavour to respond to all applicants, this is not always possible. Should you not receive a response to your application within 2 weeks, it is likely that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.??However, we would like to retain your details on our systems for 6 months and may contact you should another potentially suitable vacancy arise.