Functional Analyst - Freelance

Position Description

We are looking for a Functional Analyst in the banking domain. In this domain we focus on Investments Trading.

The Functional analyst will be responsible to create functional and non-functional specification

based on the business requirements. The candidate will also liaise with the development team in the Scrum methodology and prepare the needed testing. The candidate will work in close collaboration with the Product owner, Business analyst, Architect and scrum team members.

He/she demonstrates deep analytical skills to evaluate the high-level information gathered from

different sources and decompose it into detailed and structured artifacts understandable by the

development team.

Position Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities

- Analyze business requirements documentation

- Based on business requirements, detail solution with Architect and Development team

- Design service specifications

- Define data model with Data Architect

- Write functional requirements (User Stories in Jira and documentation on Confluence)

- Collaborate with Product Owner and Business Analyst

- Support Scrum Team in developing and testing software

Experience/Qualification/Soft skills

- Degree in Business, Economics or Computer Science.

- +5 years relevant experience as functional analyst

- Dutch or French mother tongue, fluent in English

- High analytical and technical capabilities

- Proven communication skills

- Profound knowledge of methods and tools for functional specifications

- Technical background and an appetite for technology

- Experience with UML or other modeling frameworks

- Knowledge of SQL

- Team Player

- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail

- Experience in working with different Vendors (located locally and/or offshore) in a

multicultural environment

Knowledge & Know-How

Functional / Business Knowledge

• Financial investment products and trading, Advisory business

Technical experience/environment

• Strong knowledge of

• Functional and non-functional requirements

• UML (activity diagrams, sequence diagrams,…)

• SQL

• File formats XML, JSON, CSV,…

• Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Sharepoint,

• Copilot)

• Jira (scrum)

• AI

• Understanding of

• Application server, POD, containers

• Micro-services

• Service orchestration

• Message bus

• ETL