Functional Analyst
Functional Analyst
Deloitte
Zaventem, Flemish Region, Belgium
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Can’t wait to make an impact on the world? You’re not alone. Join us in driving progress in the working world and beyond. Your journey with usWe are looking for an experienced Functional Analyst to join our team and play a key role in the development and delivery of technology projects that support our Tax & Legal core business. As a Functional Analyst, you will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements for custom-developed applications, primarily within the Microsoft .NET framework, that are critical to our core business functions.
In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders, including business users, the development team, and global Deloitte member firms, to ensure that project requirements are accurately captured, thoroughly understood, and effectively communicated and documented. You will also be tasked with analyzing complex business processes, identifying potential improvements, and translating business needs into clear, actionable specifications that guide our development efforts.
Your responsibilities:
• Supporting business owners to identify product vision & mission
• Helping product owners to translate mission statements into product roadmaps
• Analyzing business requirements on the roadmap and using functional decomposition to define high-level epics, features and user stories to create a well-organized, value-driven flexible delivery
• Documenting interrelationships and associated business process flows
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up and Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Writing individual user stories that are very clear, concise and easy to understand for smooth implementation by the development team
• Guide the development teams to break down large and complex user stories into simplified versions for execution
• Creating test and release plans to ensure the right business requirements are implemented at the agreed timing in close collaboration with the scrum master and product owner
• Organize user acceptance and functional testing in close collaboration with the scrum master and product owner
• Working with the product owner to maintain an up-to-date product backlog
• Documenting acceptance criteria and facilitating sign-off
• Accountable for product release and associated acceptance signoff
• Active participant in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) continuous improvement track for the Tax & Legal technology organization
• Ability to identify improvements in the ALM and flexible delivery processes and tools and/or functional analyst way of working
Let's talk about youThe ideal candidate will have a strong background in requirements analysis, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to navigate project dependencies and stakeholder relationships in a fast-paced, agile environment.
KEY SKILLS:
• Ability to collaborate closely with SMEs, product and business owners
• Identify and analyze core business requirements and key product features
• Coordinate and facilitate interviews and workshops to gather and analyze requirements
• Develop functional and non-functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support identified specifications
• Provide comprehensive support to all stakeholders through training and documentation
• Ability to translate business requirements into a quantified product backlog
• Development and grooming of product backlogs
• Writing user stories resulting in a clear, detailed and complete understanding of features
• Ability to assist off-shore/nearshore and onsite testing
• Has experience working with agile methods and tools
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in an international environment
• Very good documentation skills with the ability to provide structure
• Profound presentation and communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps is a plus
• Ability to think out of the box
• Team playerIf you are passionate about bridging the gap between business needs and technology solutions, and are ready to contribute to impactful, technology projects, we would love to hear from you.
Deloitte Tax and Legal lies at the crossroads of tax, law, business and innovation, so it is subject to constant change. We get that. Unlike others, our young and dynamic team of tax and legal specialists thrive on this complexity and see the opportunities. It’s what keeps us sharp. We help our clients connect for impact by anticipating change, unlocking the full potential of their people, extracting strategic insights from data, and creating new value through digital technologies.
Who is Deloitte?
We provide industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting and related services. We are committed to driving innovation across offerings to help our clients address their challenges, while giving our professionals opportunities to learn and grow in this era of transformation.
In Belgium, +5000 dedicated professionals active in +10 offices, take great pride in bringing multidisciplinary expertise to a wide variety of clients, from national and international companies, small, fast-growing and large organizations to public institutions and governmental authorities.
Why Deloitte?
Be the true you! We foster diversity and inclusion and encourage you to bring your authentic self to work. Explore, question and collaborate while building a career that inspires and energises you.
Never stop growing!Diversity of thought makes us stronger. At Deloitte, we tailor a personalized learning experience, offering you the opportunity to grow at your own pace and achieve maximum impact.
We practice what we preach! As a Purpose-led organisation, at the heart of everything we do is a set of timeless principles and unifying values.
Life looks different for each of us, so we created a varied benefits package that you can tap into:
Empowering our employees with flexible work arrangementsremains essential in today's reality:
Join us to make an impact together! Apply now!
In this role, you will work closely with stakeholders, including business users, the development team, and global Deloitte member firms, to ensure that project requirements are accurately captured, thoroughly understood, and effectively communicated and documented. You will also be tasked with analyzing complex business processes, identifying potential improvements, and translating business needs into clear, actionable specifications that guide our development efforts.
Your responsibilities:
• Supporting business owners to identify product vision & mission
• Helping product owners to translate mission statements into product roadmaps
• Analyzing business requirements on the roadmap and using functional decomposition to define high-level epics, features and user stories to create a well-organized, value-driven flexible delivery
• Documenting interrelationships and associated business process flows
• Participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Stand Up and Sprint Retrospective meetings
• Writing individual user stories that are very clear, concise and easy to understand for smooth implementation by the development team
• Guide the development teams to break down large and complex user stories into simplified versions for execution
• Creating test and release plans to ensure the right business requirements are implemented at the agreed timing in close collaboration with the scrum master and product owner
• Organize user acceptance and functional testing in close collaboration with the scrum master and product owner
• Working with the product owner to maintain an up-to-date product backlog
• Documenting acceptance criteria and facilitating sign-off
• Accountable for product release and associated acceptance signoff
• Active participant in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) continuous improvement track for the Tax & Legal technology organization
• Ability to identify improvements in the ALM and flexible delivery processes and tools and/or functional analyst way of working
Let's talk about youThe ideal candidate will have a strong background in requirements analysis, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to navigate project dependencies and stakeholder relationships in a fast-paced, agile environment.
KEY SKILLS:
• Ability to collaborate closely with SMEs, product and business owners
• Identify and analyze core business requirements and key product features
• Coordinate and facilitate interviews and workshops to gather and analyze requirements
• Develop functional and non-functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support identified specifications
• Provide comprehensive support to all stakeholders through training and documentation
• Ability to translate business requirements into a quantified product backlog
• Development and grooming of product backlogs
• Writing user stories resulting in a clear, detailed and complete understanding of features
• Ability to assist off-shore/nearshore and onsite testing
• Has experience working with agile methods and tools
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in an international environment
• Very good documentation skills with the ability to provide structure
• Profound presentation and communication skills
• Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps is a plus
• Ability to think out of the box
• Team playerIf you are passionate about bridging the gap between business needs and technology solutions, and are ready to contribute to impactful, technology projects, we would love to hear from you.
Deloitte Tax and Legal lies at the crossroads of tax, law, business and innovation, so it is subject to constant change. We get that. Unlike others, our young and dynamic team of tax and legal specialists thrive on this complexity and see the opportunities. It’s what keeps us sharp. We help our clients connect for impact by anticipating change, unlocking the full potential of their people, extracting strategic insights from data, and creating new value through digital technologies.
Who is Deloitte?
We provide industry-leading audit and assurance, tax and legal, consulting and related services. We are committed to driving innovation across offerings to help our clients address their challenges, while giving our professionals opportunities to learn and grow in this era of transformation.
In Belgium, +5000 dedicated professionals active in +10 offices, take great pride in bringing multidisciplinary expertise to a wide variety of clients, from national and international companies, small, fast-growing and large organizations to public institutions and governmental authorities.
Why Deloitte?
Be the true you! We foster diversity and inclusion and encourage you to bring your authentic self to work. Explore, question and collaborate while building a career that inspires and energises you.
Never stop growing!Diversity of thought makes us stronger. At Deloitte, we tailor a personalized learning experience, offering you the opportunity to grow at your own pace and achieve maximum impact.
We practice what we preach! As a Purpose-led organisation, at the heart of everything we do is a set of timeless principles and unifying values.
Life looks different for each of us, so we created a varied benefits package that you can tap into:
- My Benefits My Choice, a flexible rewards plan tailored to your lifestyle and priorities
- Sustainable transport options offered by Mobility@Deloitte
- Flexible work arrangements for all and initiatives supported by Parents@Deloitte
- Wellbeing tips and activities powered by Energise@Deloitte
- Topped off with other health benefits and insurance opportunities
Empowering our employees with flexible work arrangementsremains essential in today's reality:
- Hybrid workplace:combination of home office and on-site (+10 offices in Belgium or client's premises).
- Part-time employment: all our jobs are open to part-time work under a 90% or 80% regime.
Join us to make an impact together! Apply now!
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