Business Analyst

Business Analyst - Change

Closing date for receipt of applications is Friday (05/09/25) at 17:00

Agency support not required for this role

About Pepper Advantage Ireland:
Pepper Advantage Ireland has been instrumental inhelping Irish individuals, businesses and investors navigate their financialjourney since 2012. We manage over €30bn worth of assets and have a skilledteam of more than 600 people across Dublin and Shannon. We're here to serviceloans and mortgages which includes processing loan payments and when needed,working with customers to resolve late payments or assist with financialdifficulties.

As part of the international Pepper Advantage Group, we combinelocal knowledge with global expertise. With operations across the UK, Europeand South East Asia, we employ over 3,500 people and have over €40bn in assetsunder management.

About this Role:
The primary purpose of theBusiness Analyst role is to define scope, requirements & requirementartefacts across the Programme of projects across three pillars: Client,Strategic, BAU Change. The Business Analyst is a key role in the eliciting ofrequirements from a mix of technical and non-technical business resources andtranslating them with developers and signed off as part of the project deliverylifecycle.

The Business Analyst ispart of the Change Team and is a subject matter expert (SME) in Retail mortgageservicing. They will work across allPepper Ireland departments, including Operations, IT, PMO, CRE, Compliance,Lending, Finance & MI, and Pepper clients to ensure business requirementsare defined and delivered to provide maximum benefit to the business.

Location: Dublin or Shannon

Typeof Contract: Permanent

KeyResponsibilities
Requirements & Design
-Host workshops to elicit requirements from business/clients, challenging status quo and mindset to ensure the best possible design and benefit realisation
-Conduct high quality business analysis and provide clear business requirement documentation/functional specs
-Identify and escalate important systems issues
-Playback of requirements back to business/client
-Communication/translation of the requirements to IT
-Ensuring appropriate approvals for sign off of requirements
-Provide support to UAT team e.g. understanding requirements for translation to test scripts, handover on data structure knowledge
Process Definition
-Working with SMEs to capture to be processes and supporting documentation always with a customer first mindset – i.e., SOPS, procedures, policy updates
-Ensuring sign off of process documentation in a timely fashion to allow for controlled delivery throughout the project lifecycle
Communication
-Proactively engage with Project Manager, Change Leadership and/or functional leaders to document business improvements and/or issues.
-Data Reconciliation/Issues
-Analyse data from multiple sources in order to review, validate, cleanse, and load to Pepper systems.
-Perform gap analysis on current data vs data required to perform data migrations.
-Supporting the data query log activities
-Supporting and driving closure of data issues.
Methodology/Training
-Contribute to methodology reviews to ensure Pepper methodology stays relevant, adapts to lessons learned and provides appropriate and proportionate governance
-Facilitate knowledge share sessions across the team

EssentialSkills & Experience
-Relevant 3rd Level Qualification and/or Professional Qualification in Business Analysis
-Candidates should be highly professional, self-motivated with excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
-Minimum of 3-5 years' experience working as a business analyst in financial services/insurance
-Experienced in MS Office including Word, Visio, and high degree of proficiency in Microsoft excel and experience analysing large data sets
-Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools
-Experience of data analysis and ability to present complex information in an understandable manner to all areas of the business
-Problem solving and root cause identification skills
-Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
-Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively
-Strong understanding of all aspects of systems implementation and software development life cycles
-Strong financial analysis skills with the ability to review, understand and interpret loans interest and billing history
-A proven track record of excellent communication and customer service skills enabling successful collaboration with key stakeholders; ability to translate client requirements into tangible requirements/deliverables
-Experience working with technical and business teams to translate internal and external business needs to drive functional and technical requirements

DesirableSkills & Experience
-Experience and knowledge of supporting change in a Retail mortgage servicing business; on/offboarding, digital/customer journey/transformation/BAU change
-JIRA experience
-Experience and knowledge on various loan product types i.e., Simple vs. Compound Interest, Billing amounts, Capital & Interest loans, Interest Only loans, Part and Part loans and Interest Rate types i.e., Fixed rate, Variable rate, Tracker rate (desirable)

KeyPerformance Indicators
-Documents are clear, concise, and accurate
-Person acts as SME and demonstrates functional design competence across all Pepper teams
-Ownership of BA tasks and delivery to a high standard
-Successful implementation of all changes under the remit of the BA
-Prompt identification of important system issues
-Be solution focused to overcome issues
-Urgent issues prioritised and escalated to correct person
-Hold effective stakeholder meetings

Competencies
-Business Requirements and Process mapping
-IT Knowledge – General
-Accuracy & Quality
-Analytical Thinking
-High Attention to Detail
-Communication & Interpersonal Skills
-Communication Skills- Written
-Problem solving
-Team Working
-Conflict Management
-Good Stakeholder Management Skills

Pepper is an equalopportunity employer.
RoleProfiles are subject to change in line with business needs.