AFAQ Libya

is looking

for experienced Business Analyst / Project Manager

to join our team!

Job Description:

Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager

• • The Business Analyst / Project Manager will be responsible for the overall success of a project, requirements definition, and quality assurance activities.
  • Project Management responsibilities include time and resource management, financial planning, scope management, issue and risk management, project execution. This person plans, directs, and monitors the work produced by the team(s). He or she is responsible for managing stakeholder relationships, including general, ongoing communications, negotiation of scope and schedule changes, key risks, issue resolution, and ongoing progress reporting.
  • As a Business Analyst, they serve as a liaison between functional users and technical staff in the development or modification of typically complex information systems. He or she leads in definition of user business requirements, assures requirements are appropriately addressed in application implementation, and redefines business processes to maximize application usage as required. Responsibilities include creating and executing test plans, performing hands-on functional testing, and leading user acceptance testing. This position will also provide ongoing user support, including troubleshooting and resolution of more complex system issues.
  • The Business Analyst / Project Manager shapes client expectations, and manages contracts and scope related to the project. This person must have a broad knowledge of industry best practices and be able to proactively identify potential project risks in order to advise and consult with clients on risk identification, analysis, and mitigation strategies.

• Qualifications
  • • 5-10 years job-related experience
  • • Experience working with Project Management software
  • • Experience using EVM
  • • Strong working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle Process, including iterative and Waterfall methods
  • • Excellent organisational experience, professionalism, and time management skills
  • • Effective analytical and presentation skills
  • • Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills; ability to tailor communication to different audiences, such as management, stakeholders, users, SMEs, developers, and others
  • • Ability to lead others to articulate additional possibly hidden needs
  • • Ability to communicate and work effectively with both functional area experts and technical team members
  • • Strong process analysis and documentation skills; experience on projects to develop workflow-based enterprise software
  • • Self-motivated and able to work independently
  • • Experience being both a PM and BA on the same project
  • • Ability to manage work on multiple projects with competing priorities
  • • Advanced skills in data organisation and analysis, problem solving, systems documentation
  • • Knowledge of SQL, database, and relational data models
  • • Experience overseeing user acceptance testing and providing test cases
  • • Experience working with web application development teams who use technologies such as Java and PHP.
  • • Experience in enterprise systems integration
  • • Experience or knowledge in one or more technical solutions/architectures such as web services, portals, business process modelling, UI technologies like AJAX, relational databases, Business Intelligence (coding experience not required)
• Location: Remote or on Premise in Misurata, Libya. Preference for candidates willing to work from our Misrata, Libya office.
• Compensation: Competitive, determined based on experience