Senior Business Functional Analyst

About the Position

Senior Business Functional Analyst

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Business Functional Analyst to join our team in Bucharest, Romania. This role is ideal for someone with extensive experience in business analysis, process design, and workflow automation. You will play a crucial role in bridging business needs and technology solutions, ensuring that our projects deliver measurable business value.

Project Description

Our customer is a top-tier investment bank with client assets of hundreds of billions globally. As a Senior Business Functional Analyst, you will work across the full project lifecycle, from discovery and requirements gathering to implementation, validation, and business readiness. You will collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners, engineers, architects, and governance teams to ensure solutions meet enterprise standards for security, control, and compliance.

Responsibilities

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Elicit, analyse, document, and validate business requirements.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Create clear and comprehensive documentation, including process flows, BPMN diagrams, use cases, presentations, specifications, and workflow designs.
• Ensure requirements are understood by both business and technical stakeholders.

Process Design & Improvement

• Analyse current-state processes and design future-state business workflows.
• Identify process optimization opportunities through automation and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Conduct impact assessments for proposed changes across processes, systems, and organizational structures.
• Support business units in defining efficient and scalable operating models.

Workflow & Agentic Solutions

• Support the design and implementation of workflow-based and agent-driven solutions.
• Define user interactions, workflow exceptions, decision points, and agent behaviours.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements.
• Contribute to AI-enabled initiatives, including information retrieval, document processing, and workflow automation use cases.
• Support HR process transformation initiatives where applicable.

Validation & Quality Assurance

• Define acceptance scenarios and business success criteria.
• Validate solutions against requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Assess risks, dependencies, assumptions, and implementation impacts.
• Support testing, user acceptance activities, and deployment readiness.

Stakeholder Management & Leadership

• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements discussions.
• Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders, Product Owners, developers, architects, and governance teams.
• Provide guidance on business analysis methodologies, process modelling approaches, and delivery practices.
• Lead selected initiatives from discovery through implementation and business adoption.
• Support collaboration across international and virtual teams.

Requirements

Essential

• Several years of experience as a Business Analyst in technology, workflow automation, digital transformation, or enterprise change initiatives.
• Strong experience gathering requirements and converting business needs into functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with process modelling techniques such as BPMN, process mapping, and workflow design.
• Proven stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, and influencing skills.
• Experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Preferred

• Experience with workflow platforms and process automation solutions.
• Knowledge of AI agents, Generative AI, and agentic business processes.
• Experience with HR processes and HR technology transformation initiatives.
• Experience in banking, consulting, or large enterprise environments.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
• German language skills are an advantage.
• Academic degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Nice to Have

• REST API design
• Data Flow Diagrams
• Data visualization
• Postman
• Project management experience
• German language

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a highly professional environment with high-level financial instruments.
• Be part of our success story and achieve career growth.
• Access to technical, business-related, or soft skills training.
• Encourage creative thinking in an open-minded work environment.
• Friendly and fun work atmosphere.
• Engaging projects for motivated software developers.

About the Company

Join a top-tier investment bank with global client assets of hundreds of billions. Work with a team that values professional development, creative thinking, and collaboration. We offer a dynamic work environment where ambitious ideas often take shape in our relaxation rooms. Our teams are not just professional but also friends who enjoy working together.

Apply Now

If you are an active person and motivated by the creation/development of software solutions, this is the place to be. Apply now and become part of our fabulous team.

Location: Bucharest, Romania

Employment Type: Full-Time

Position: Senior Business Functional Analyst

Requisition Number: VR-124155