IT Business Analyst

**About Apex**

Apex Group Ltd., is a global financial services provider. With over 80 offices in 38 countries worldwide and more than 10,000 employees, Apex Group delivers an expansive range of services to asset managers, financial institutions, private clients and family offices. The Group has continually improved and evolved its capabilities to offer a single-source solution through establishing the broadest range of services in the industry; including fund services, digital onboarding and bank accounts, depositary, custody, super ManCo services, corporate services including HR and Payroll and a pioneering ESG Ratings and Advisory solution. Apex Group’s purpose is to be more than just a financial services provider and is committed to driving positive change to address three core areas; the Environment and Climate Change, Women’s Empowerment and Economic Independence, Education and Social Mobility.

Life at Apex isn't just about the work you do, it's about embracing the culture and loving what you do. Every employee plays a part in making Apex who we are today and the more that we grow, the more important that becomes. Whatever your career path or specialism Apex ensures it rewards loyal and dedicated employees. The international nature of our business and global network of offices means that there are opportunities to broaden your life experiences and take both short-term or permanent relocation options.

**Role summary**:
The primary responsibilities or the Business Analyst will be working with stakeholders to determine requirements and produce analyses in order to deliver functional and design documentation. To assist with the delivery of solutions by working closely with their team, and ensure quality by testing solutions against their requirements. The analyst will act as a core part of a persistent team helping that team deliver high quality solutions and continual improvement.

**Key responsibilities**:
The successful applicant will be able to quickly understand the business strategy and objectives and act as a link between the business stakeholders and IT technical staff. It will be necessary to successfully handle multiple tasks, projects and priorities in a fast paced environment.
- Define and document business processes and requirements through collaborative stakeholder engagement. This includes working with the business to deliver solutions with a smooth transition through to the production environment;
- Produce technical (functional and non-functional) documentation as Feature Specs, BRD’s, RFP’s, DRS’s and, end user product documentation;
- Ability to clearly communicate ideas to both technical stakeholders and business end users;
- Interpreting business requirements and translating these into viable solutions with tangible business benefits;
- Support development, testing during the build and test phases and deployment of solutions;
- Identify new opportunities for technology.

**Skills / experience**:

- Experience of 4-5 years working as a business analyst;
- Experience in the financial services industry is preferable;
- Demonstrated ability to work in a changing and challenging environment with a record of producing high quality business analysis documentation;
- Knowledge of all phases of the development lifecycle and experience in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies;
- Motivated self-starter who can work in a team environment;
- Experience with UML, BMPN or other modelling notations;
- Excellent communication, listening and writing skills;
- Excellent stakeholder management skills;
- Be able to plan and track activities/tasks;
- Ability to work to complete work to schedule;
- Ability to multi-task;
- Background in software development;
- Experience of implementation and rollout to critical systems;
- Be willing to travel (limited) if required to support project objectives;
- 3rd level Qualification (preferably IT related);
- PBA or CCBA preferable.

**What you will get in return**:

- The ability to contribute to the refinement of processes to drive innovation and have a tangible impact on the business
- A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business
- Work for a fast developing and world-leading independent financial services provider
- Opportunities for professional development
- Positive and hospitable work environment
- Exposure to all aspects of the business, on a cross-jurisdictional basis

**Total Benefits**
- Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to:

- We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees
- Health Insurance
- Working Schedule: August and Fridays reduced hours

**More about us**:
We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share, but also by how we positively impact people, society and the pla