Senior Functional Analyst

Start Date: As soon as possible

End Date: 31/12/2026

Location: Brussels (Hybrid work model with 3 days of homeworking per week)

Languages Required:

• Active knowledge of French or Dutch (understanding, speaking, writing technical documentation, reading)

• Active knowledge of English (writing documentation)

Description:

In the context of a major business transformation program, we are looking for a Senior Functional Analyst to reinforce the existing teams. As a Senior Analyst, you will join a department of about 90 people to ensure the hand-over, refactoring, or greenfield development of new business applications. The role requires handling all phases of a project and working in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop strong and long-term relationships with stakeholders, including business and project stakeholders, team managers, and partners.
• Conduct detailed identification, analysis, description, and validation of both existing business processes and new (non) functional needs of the users.
• Translate requirements into business solutions by creating functional analysis and application designs.
• Collaborate with technical team members to validate the functional design and create the translation to technical specifications.
• Follow up end-to-end on the delivery of new functionalities and/or applications.
• Produce all necessary documentation throughout the different stages of projects.
• Work closely with business analysts and developers under the supervision of project managers/coordinators to refine and validate proposed solutions.
• Collaborate with project managers to report status, facilitate decisions, manage risks, and escalate as needed.

Deliverables:

• Analysis documentation
• Software requirements specifications (including needed diagrams, analysis, etc.)
• Data model
• User stories
• Test plan and cases

Competencies:

• Strong functional and business analysis skills to assimilate complex material quickly.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the business and development team.
• Solution and customer-oriented approach.
• Ability to abstract complex material.
• Willingness to change business context regularly.
• Ability to integrate easily into an existing team and supervise juniors.
• Familiarity with AGILE/SCRUM methodologies.
• Understanding of classic development technologies (J2EE, Java8, Oracle, Hibernate, Junit, Selenium, Maven, GIT, JIRA).
• Mastery of technical language for functional analyses (APIs, mappings, business model, batches, services).
• Business Analysis - interface with the client to help define their needs.
• Good knowledge of the second national language is a plus.

Skills:

• Agile/Scrum
• BPMN
• Confluence
• Customer journey
• Functional Analysis (UML)
• SQL
• Test Analysis & Design
• UML
• User stories writing

Additional Requirements:

Due to the nature of the activities, the candidate must have Belgian nationality.