Business Analyst - Professional Development Opportunities

About Flintfox:

Flintfox helps you find magic in the margins, giving you enterprise pricing powers so you can analyze, act and automate at speed. We make your pricing, promotion, rebate and revenue management work for you.

Unraveling real-time transactional data can seem an impossible task with today's tech stack. Our intelligent pricing platform untangles this complexity, uncovering actionable intel and unlocking incremental value - providing you with fast and accurate pricing to improve margin and profit on every product. It gives you the competitive edge you need to drive your profits and thrive on a global stage.

Trusted by 225,000 users worldwide, we power more than 12 million transactions every day. As a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, we natively integrate with Dynamics 365, or can plug into any ERP.

Our Vision:

Digital Transformation and Intelligent Pricing Simplified

Our Values:

Customer: We listen and put the customer first

Impact: We deliver results for our customers, partners, and us

Innovate: We invent to reduce complexity

Collaborate: We are better together

Inclusive: We treat each other as we like to be treated

Job Summary:

The Business Analyst plays a key role within the product development team, acting as the main conduit between the development team and the business by understanding and translating business needs into software requirements, ensuring that the requirements, designs, and specifications are captured, defined and well understood by the development team, using agile practices. 

What you will do: 

• Work closely with the project team members to ensure that the product meets the agreed requirements and to ensure the product is of a high quality.   
• Accurately describe the problem statement, business impact and client experience.   
• Create Functional Design Documents (FDD) for product roadmap features with sufficient detail, and clarity, for the product development team to develop. 
• Collaborate and support the product development team during development to ensure an accurate understanding of requirements is maintained. 
• Communicate and demonstrate newly developed features to stakeholders to share knowledge and ensure new product features are widely understood. 
• Work with the business to clearly identify success criteria for each feature requirement the team are working on.   
• Provide feedback to impacted stakeholders on functional issues raised, and potential business solutions. 
• Define the acceptance criteria for user stories and requirements to ensure clarity for the development team.   
• Assist with the definition of the testing strategy and test execution including participation in testing activities and release readiness assessments.  
• Participate in agile ceremonies (stand up, retro, showcases, workshops, inceptions etc.) 
• Identify and resolve conflicting requirements.   
• Gather, refine and articulate business needs, including functions, processes, workflows using a defined methodology including workshop facilitation and stakeholder interviews.   
• Analyse user requirements and deliver artefacts to assist with understanding - including domain modelling, workflows, user stories and interface design, by liaising with a range of people including users & product managers, drawing together information needs from across the organisation.   
• Work with stakeholders to prioritise the product backlog and defects based on business value, ensuring the value of the work that the team performs. 
• Other duties as may be assigned.

Requirements: 

• 2+ years’ experience as a business analyst working in a team environment.  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  
• Strong facilitation, workshop, and organisational skills  
• Has a solid understanding of agile system of work and understands how to identify areas of improvement and influence change.   
• Strong proven Business Analysis experience in a commercial product or bespoke software development organisation.   
• Good understanding of SDLC principles and the software development lifecycle including agile development methodologies. 
• Experience developing financial or accounting solutions preferred. 
• Demonstrable involvement or engagement with the business analysis community and agile community 
• Relevant post-secondary qualification or substantial relevant work experience 

Additional Information: 

• Work Location: Hybrid - Onsite in our Takapuna office on Tuesday and Friday and home office on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Benefits: 

• Health insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Work in a fast-paced, informal environment with a great bunch of highly, skilled, passionate people who freely share knowledge and a great team spirit
• New product development, the opportunity to play a key role in the success of our product roadmap with the development of leading edge on premise and SaaS/Cloud based software
• Career opportunities to grow your role and your skills as our product develops; future plans for the product include Microservices and advanced BI
• Utilise the latest Microsoft and Azure cloud technologies.

For more information about what it's like to work at Flintfox check out our website www.flintfox.com/careers and our Instagram account: @flintfox.staff

Flintfox is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Offers may be subject to satisfactory security clearance.