BUSINESS ANALYSIS HEAD

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 JOB PURPOSE:

To manage & Lead the business analysis team who bridge the gap between the different business lines and solution providers to improve the quality of delivery of the business solutions. Responsible for the planning, budgeting, tracking, and resource planning. The responsibilities of a business analysis head job include capturing and modelling CIB business strategy, engaging in strategic business analysis with senior management, prioritizing business initiatives in light of the business strategy, and managing the business analysis engagements and tasks. 

Description:

1. Conduct business strategy meetings with senior management to capture and model the business strategy of the bank.
2. Analyse the business strategy, develop strategic use cases and align on the strategic priorities with the business senior management.
3. Communicate the strategic business priorities with the information technology stakeholders and develop the line of sight from the strategic business priorities to the portfolio of projects and demand.
4. Conduct business impact analysis for new strategic initiatives.
5. Define business analysis best practices, methodologies and tools.
6. Plan and allocate business analysis resources to projects and demand requests.
7. Review Business Requirement models and documents to ensure developing solutions that align with bank’s strategy.
8. Support the process of Changes & Projects Analysis, UAT, approvals & implementation in both projects and demand requests. 
9. Analyse, stimulate and shape business demand for Changes, projects, services, capabilities and investments in order to maximize their business value. This means taking a proactive role in educating the business partner, suppressing demand for low value activities while stimulating demand for high value activities taking into consideration the risk & financial factors.
10. Monitor the planned business impact of business changes enabled by business analysis engagements also monitor the market trends to develop products and improve existing products and services.
11. Monitor business satisfaction and facilitate continuous improvement in meeting the business needs in a way that best serve the bank strategic goals. 
12. Align with information technology stakeholders on acquiring the technology capabilities that enable the business strategy of the bank and maximize the business value provided to the bank’s customers and shareholders.
13. Manage the compliance of business initiatives with the regulations and guidelines of the regulatory bodies.
14. Manage portfolio budgets estimation and utilization to ensure cost-benefits best practices and Manage portfolio level risk for any change to support further Senior Management decisions.
Policies, Processes and Procedures
15. Participate and recommend improvements to set policies, processes and procedures and manage their implementation and update to ensure all relevant procedural / legislative requirements are fulfilled.
Day-to-day management
16. Supervise the day to day operations of the Business Analysis team providing guidance in the related area, encouraging teamwork and facilitating related professional work processes in order to achieve high performance standards
Supervision
17. Supervise the activities and work of subordinates to ensure that all work within a specific area is carried out in an efficient manner and in compliance with the set policies, processes and procedures
Compliance
18. Ensure compliance with all relevant CBE regulations, banking laws, AML regulations and internal CIB policies and code of conduct in order to maintain CIB’s sound legal position and mitigate any potential risks.
Strategy
19. Participate in the formulation and implementation of the Transformation & Delivery Department strategy to ensure the alignment with CIB strategy.

.Qualifications & Experience:

 Bachelor’s degree in Business, Commerce, Economics, Computer Science, or its equivalent
 Minimum 12 years of experience in different business and technology fields with at least 4 years in the banking industry
 Master of Business Administration

Skills:

 Perfect command in spoken and written English & Arabic languages
 Proficient user of MS Office Applications
 Proficient user of business modelling tools
 Strategic analysis Skills
 Risk management Skills
 Client management Skills
 Strong Leadership and Project Management Skills
 Financial Intelligence; have knowledge of Finance and accounting and how to calculate ROI applying the cost benefit analysis techniques.