Junior Business Analyst

We are looking for a Junior Business Analyst Product Owner who will help a banking-sector customer address strategic, organizational, and software development challenges. The role involves investigating, identifying, and analyzing requirements, as well as defining improvement areas for needed changes.

Main responsibilities

• Participate in work related to key IT development areas, including IT strategy, IT transformation, AI, cloud, governance, cybersecurity, architecture, and operational efficiency.
• Support coordination of transformation initiatives within the IT Division, including monitoring statuses, risks, dependencies, schedules, and next steps.
• Collaborate with IT teams and business stakeholders to gather information, structure insights, and translate them into clear recommendations.
• Support preparation, updating, and monitoring of the Bank’s IT Strategy.
• Help identify areas requiring improvement and contribute to proposals for IT development initiatives.
• Prepare presentations, summaries, reports, and management materials for meetings, committees, workshops, and strategic decision-making.
• Support meetings and workshops by preparing agendas, notes, summaries, and action-item lists.
• Conduct market research to identify market status, trends, and key players.
• Research and analyze improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with the development team.
• Communicate business requirements clearly to business users, IT professionals, and external partners.
• Identify stakeholders, analyze their needs and expectations, and translate them into relevant Product Backlog items.
• Collaborate on user interviews and prototype validation.

Requirements

• Higher education or studies in progress, preferably in management, economics, computer science, data analysis, data science, new technologies, or AI.
• Ability to communicate with multiple stakeholders.
• Awareness of software development processes.
• Self-driven and proactive approach.
• High attention to detail.
• Good time management.
• Ability to analyze information from multiple sources, form insights, and draw logical conclusions.
• Moderate proficiency with AI tools and ability to use them in daily tasks.
• Fluency in the MS Office suite, especially Word and PowerPoint.
• Basic knowledge of the Scrum framework.
• Fluent English.

Nice to have

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.