ServiceNow - Senior Business Analyst - ITOM Module (CMDB & Discovery)

2 days a week onsite in Knutsford
inside IR35

Overall purpose of role
Business Analyst responsible for capturing & defining business requirements and ensuring delivery of those
requirements within the IT Service Management function with a focus on the ServiceNow ITOM platform.

Key Accountabilities
* Understand the current "as is processes"
* Requirement specification for enhancement requests for existing ITSM/ITOM tools and processes
* Leading various ITSM customer working and focus groups to solicit requirements
* Direct interaction with customers - as well as on and off-shore development teams
* Identify areas of process and tooling improvement
* Ensure gaps are clearly defined and assessed
* Functional specification of "target state" processes
* Work closely with the development teams throughout all phases
* Produce test strategies and engage actively in the testing phase
* Coordinate user acceptance testing with key project stakeholders to ensure deliverables align to requirements
* Work closely with BA's in other ITSM streams
* Take an active role in customer and stakeholder engagement sessions
* Take respective ownership throughout the project lifecycle
* Ongoing involvement in continuous improvement of operating process and toolset enhancement
* Conversant with Agile methods including SRUM

Stakeholder Management and Leadership
Leadership:
Holds working knowledge in concepts and practices of Leadership:
* Develops basic presentations to influence others
* Contributes to and encourages ideas; builds on suggestions of others
* Inspires confidence by making and honouring commitments; demonstrates initiative and competence; communicates a vision and strategy of own role
* Stakeholder Management: Ability to assertively manage stakeholders at all levels, including confidently challenging requests when necessary, while ensuring alignment with business objectives (experience with Barclays is desirable)

Management:
Holds working knowledge in concepts and practices of Management:
* Can identify and map stakeholders of the project
* Demonstrates initiative and competence; supports and encourages positive working behaviours in others
* Effectively delegates tasks; provides examples of own ability to shift well from task to task
* Experienced in working in a team, creating and managing project plans
* Knows the objectives, initiatives and issues of their team & department and can use this to prioritise work


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