At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Opening paragraph

EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. Technology is at the heart of what we do and deliver at EY. Technology solutions are integrated in the client services we deliver and are key to our innovation as an organization.

Fueled by strategic investment in technology and innovation, MENA Technology seeks to drive growth opportunities and solve complex business problems for our clients through building a robust platform for business and powerful product engine that are vital to innovation at scale. As part of MENA Technology, you'll work with technologists and business experts, blending EY's deep industry knowledge and innovative ideas with our platforms, capabilities, and technical expertise. As a catalyst for change and growth, you'll be at the forefront of integrating emerging technologies from AI to Data Analytics into every corner of what we do at EY. That means more growth for you, exciting learning opportunities, career choices, and the chance to make a real impact

The opportunity

The selected candidate will:

• Collects, analyzes, and interprets business models, processes, and operations to develop an understanding of business needs and requirements.
• Supports the translation of business requirements into technical requirements and specifications, researching system and technical components to incorporate into the technical design.
• Supports the interaction with business stakeholders to gather, understand, document, and analyze business requirements.
• Analyzes and reports on the outcomes of a solution/technology being implemented to provide input into decisions around whether it is meeting business requirements.

Your key responsibilities

• Plan, estimate and socialize the business analysis approach. This information will be provided to and used by the project manager who is responsible for project planning and monitoring and controlling.
• Identify the business need for the change by understanding the problem the business is trying to solve or the opportunities to improve the business. This may include assessing the current capabilities of the business to support the business need.
• Develop requirements through the elicitation, analysis, specification, and verification. This yields multiple levels of requirements in support of the business vision.
• Manage requirements to the appropriate audience throughout the project to ensure all stakeholders have the same understanding and agreement as to the requirements. This implies all conflicts, issues and changes to requirements will be managed to keep everyone informed of the effects of change and the impact on the solution being delivered.
• Ability to work and team effectively with Technology teams and other management personnel including on a global, virtual basis.
• IT background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in different project phases.
• Ability to create User Stories and work in an Agile environment.

Skills and attributes for success

• 6 - 8 years in a corporate IT environment.
• Over 5 years' experience in business analysis or related technical field (application development, technical product owner, deployment/implementation, and infrastructure).
• Experience in selecting and executing elicitation techniques such as Interviews or Exploratory Prototypes.
• Facilitated Workshops, Focus Groups, Observation, User Task Analysis, Documentation Study and Surveys.
• Good stakeholder management skills and experience in pre-sales and business proposals is desired.
• Ability to mentor the team members on business analysis skills.

Ideally, you'll also have

• Have a sense of urgency, decisiveness, ability to work well under pressure.
• Understanding of IT Services, including service offerings, technical standards and policies, technical and business strategies as well as organizational structure.
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skill (written and verbal).
• Demonstrate ability to articulate ideas and present strategies at all organization levels.
• Track record of customer focus, based on openness, trust, and delivering on promises.

What working at EY offers

Reward statement plus an outline of the culture and environment in this part of the firm. If not covered elsewhere, this may include language about the interesting, varied and important work; the freedom and autonomy you'll have in the role; the feedback you will receive that you can learn from to achieve mastery at something; opportunities for personal growth and career advancement; or who and how you will be connected to others.

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