ContrOcc Business Analyst

Job Description

Role Introduction This role is for a Principal Business Analyst to join the Development team within Health & Care. Our development team play a vital role in driving our feature development and product innovation. Working across our various software products, our teams gainunique exposure within a challenging environment, working on the latest technologies and are given full autonomy, working on the latest technologies.This role requires someone that has worked in a Local Authority or Care provider business and has extensive operational experience in managing end-to-end financial processes, including financial assessment, biling & payments. The role requires knowledgerelated to social care policy and how this is applied to business practice. The ideal candidate will be experienced in the implementation or operational management of financial systems and be familiar with setup and configuration concepts, such as mappingof budget codes and service structures. They will have an understanding of social care finance within the context of broader social care activity, such as links to assessment and care planning processes, brokerage and funding arrangements. Ideally someonewho may have worked as an analyst developing similar software for the local authority or care market sector, or worked in an operational role with transferrable skills and knowledge that would allow to excel in a Principal BA role. What You Will Do

• Understand and advise on Social Care Finance Policy.
• Work closely with Product Managers (PdMs), Product Owners (POs) and Customers to understand market problems / challenges and the emerging customer requirements from these.
• Work closely with developers to identify the logical solutions to meet those requirements.
• Be responsible for scoping projects to facilitate estimating and planning.
• Work with a variety of other internal and external stakeholders to:
  • Create clearly defined requirements through rigorous investigation, analysis and review in order to define and clearly document business and user requirements.
  • Facilitate workshops to elicit, challenge and verify requirements.
  • Represent Advanced where appropriate in forums, special interest groups and customer user groups.
  • Carry out fit and gap analysis of requirements vs. products to understand if standard products meet user needs and identify key opportunities through areas of product improvement.
  • Help internal and external customers in developing and producing overall as is and to be process map designs.
  • Conduct advanced modelling activities including data mapping where appropriate.
  • Define logical solutions to meet customer requirements.
  • Helping the release of new product features, working closely with the development teams to ensure timely release to high levels of quality.
  • Performing a project / feature Product Owner role when required, managing the Product Backlog for these and liaising with the portfolio Product Owner.
  • Contributing to the production of product specifications and product literature and collateral.
  • Performing benefits realisation to evaluate initiative success, improve benefits and find ways to improve.
  • Preparation and delivery of Sprint Review demonstrations to internal and external stakeholders.

What You Will Have

• Experience of CareDirector Finance, or similar software products such as ContrOcc or Abacus.
• You have a detailed understanding of childrens and/or adult social care finance processes and procedures within either a local authority or care business environment.
• Experience of business process analysis to effect change within case management and Finance systems, and ideally detailed understanding of Financial Assessment policy and practice.
• Practical experience of finance configuration (i.e., service structure setup, budget codes, cost centres, income, and expenditure service element configuration/administration and with an interface to corporate finance systems and other 3rd party systemsetc.).
• Good understanding of an operational process for a Social Care Finance team and an appreciation of how practice influences finance and budget allocations and the benefits offered by an integrated finance system.
• Experience of problem solving applying an analytical approach.
• Experience in Business Analysis or similar to develop software (desired).
• An excellent aptitude for verbal and written communication and an ability to produce high quality documentation with ease including process models and user guides.
• An ability to influence others regardless of position/seniority.
• Strong customer facing skills with the ability to represent the company in a confident and professional manner.

Above stated are the desired requirements but please dont get discouraged to apply even if you do not meet all of those competencies. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Advanced, with an aim to promote at pace as we invest in ourpeople and their growth here. What We Do For You Wellbeing focussedOur people are our greatest assets, and ensuring everyone feels their best self to come to work is integral

Generous Annual Leave25 days of annual leave, plus public holidays and the ability to buy additional daysSummer Fridays Every Friday afternoo