Business Analyst Job Description Template

The following job description may be tailored for use by a Business Analyst without any people management responsibilities.

Business Analyst Role Description

To develop a sound knowledge of <the affected business area> and the effect of the requested changes.

To liaise with business managers and low-level users to understand and document business requirements across affected business areas.

To understand, document and prioritise business requirements across affected business areas.

To work with business owners and delivery workstreams to develop optimal solutions.

To develop complete and accurate business models including process, data and organisation.

Business Analyst Working Relationships

Work with project sponsor to understand and document project objectives and scope.

Work with business owners from affected business areas to understand current processes and to document and prioritise requirements.

Work with delivery workstreams to communicate business objectives and requirements, make decisions on delivery options and produce delivery costs and timescales.

Work with <other related> projects to understand and manage project dependencies.

Work with project manager/s to plan analysis work and highlight risks and issues.

Work with Finance to define accurate, meaningful and measurable business cases.

Work with the business owners to define acceptance criteria.

Business Analyst Deliverables

Project initiation documents defining high-level scope.

Business requirements document describing the project's objectives, how the work was done and listing the requirements for each business area prioritised into mandatory, desirable and optional categories. Desirable and Optional requirements will have an associated business case which will allow the project sponsor to make informed decisions about delivery of the project.

Detailed requirements that enable the chosen solution to be developed and tested with minimal analysis support.

Business cases defining the costs and benefits associated with requested changes.

User Acceptance test plans.

Business models incorporating process and data models.

Business Analyst Reporting

Weekly reports will be produced for the project manager showing progress against outstanding milestones, status, resource requirements, issues, risks and dependencies.