Overview
The IT Business Analyst for Mergers & Acquisitions will work within a hybrid model, primarily supporting a growing organization's acquisition strategy. Collaborating with the Programme Manager and Project Manager, the contractor will focus on facilitating integration efforts by accurately gathering requirements and analyzing business processes across multiple teams. This role is crucial for ensuring successful delivery through effective documentation and stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities
- Gather, analyse and document business requirements across acquired businesses and internal teams.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions with business and technical stakeholders.
- Produce current and future-state process maps, workflows, and gap analysis documentation.
- Support data discovery, mapping, and migration activities across systems and business processes.
- Analyse business impacts, dependencies, risks, and operational readiness requirements.
- Work closely with Project Managers and technical teams to support integration planning and delivery.
- Produce high-quality documentation including requirements, process maps, data mapping, business impact assessments, and readiness documentation.
- Support governance activities through analysis updates, decision logs, and stakeholder reporting.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst within complex business or IT change programmes.
- Experience supporting M&A, integration, transformation, or business change initiatives.
- Strong requirements gathering, stakeholder management, and process mapping skills.
- Experience documenting systems, workflows, operational processes, and data dependencies.
- Ability to translate complex business and technical information into clear, actionable outputs.
- Experience working alongside Project Managers, Programme Managers, and technical delivery teams.
- Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Familiarity with tools such as Microsoft 365, Visio, SharePoint, Teams, DevOps, ServiceNow, Power BI or similar BA tools.