Business Analyst (m/w/d)
Summary
An experienced Business Analyst (32-40 hrs/week) in Amsterdam who develops business cases, manages and prioritises requirements, and tracks benefits for digital initiatives in an asset-intensive (energy) environment, aligning business value, scope, costs, and delivery across business, IT, engineering, and finance stakeholders.
We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to support a portfolio of digital initiatives within an asset-intensive environment. In this role, you will be responsible for business case development, requirements management, benefits tracking, and ensuring alignment between business value, project scope, costs, dependencies, and delivery. You will work closely with business stakeholders, project managers, product owners, architects, IT teams, engineering teams, and finance stakeholders to ensure that requirements, business value, and delivery objectives remain connected throughout the programme lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Drive business case development, including assumptions, baselines, cost and benefit drivers, timelines, and value tracking.
- Identify and document dependencies between projects, initiatives, and business objectives.
- Support the definition and validation of both quantitative and qualitative business value.
- Maintain business case tracking and ensure benefits, risks, dependencies, milestones, scope changes, and costs are regularly reviewed and reported.
- Assess and communicate the impact of changes in scope, timelines, solution approach, or implementation readiness on expected business value.
- Gather, analyse, document, refine, and prioritise business requirements.
- Ensure requirements are traceable to business objectives and suitable for delivery and testing.
- Support solution selection, procurement activities, governance processes, and implementation planning.
- Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to gather requirements, validate business value, and support decision-making.
- Contribute to change management activities to support successful implementation and benefit realisation.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Management, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Business Analysis.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Business Case Analysis and Development.
- Minimum 5 years of experience working with quantitative financial analysis.
- Proven experience in business analysis and requirements management within the energy sector or another asset-intensive environment.
- Proven experience with business case development, benefits tracking, baseline definition, and assumption management within digital or transformation programmes.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to assess relationships between scope, technology decisions, implementation timelines, operating models, and business benefits.
- Experience facilitating requirements workshops and stakeholder alignment sessions.
- Understanding of complex IT landscapes and collaboration between business, IT, and engineering stakeholders.
- Knowledge of renewable energy, asset maintenance, asset data management, financial reporting, or programme governance is an advantage.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Fluent English, both written and spoken.
- Hours: 32-40 hours per week.
- Start Date: As soon as possible.
All our positions are open to both women and men and are, of course, open to people with disabilities.