Senior Business Analyst - French Speaking

French-Speaking Senior Business Analyst (Fluent French & English Essential) Contract 6 months Up to £600/day (Outside IR35) London - 2-3 days per week onsite

Fluent French is essential for this role. You'll work day to day with French-speaking business stakeholders, IT teams and vendors, in writing and in meetings.

We're partnering with a major international transport operator to hire a Senior Business Analyst for a 6-month contract in its change portfolio. You'll own the analysis end to end: challenging how things work today, defining what good looks like, and seeing it through testing, go-live and handover to operations.

What you'll do

• Review and challenge existing business processes, identify inefficiencies and propose improved target processes

• Secure stakeholder commitment to target processes and RACI

• Elicit, analyse and document business requirements (user stories, use cases) in Confluence

• Translate validated requirements into detailed functional specifications

• Work with architects and developers to validate functional designs against requirements and architecture

• Define and run test strategies, write test cases, and support defect and root cause analysis through testing and post-implementation

• Model processes in Bizzdesign and contribute to the enterprise process repository

• Support transition to run, including documentation, knowledge transfer and end-user support

• Flag risks and issues to the project manager with proposed mitigations

• Coordinate across business, IT and external vendors, and report on requirements status, progress and risk

• Contribute detailed requirements input to backlog refinement and prioritisation

• Contribute to project closure and lessons learned What you'll bring

• Fluent French and English, written and spoken (essential)

• 10+ years as a Business Analyst or in a similar role

• A strong track record in both business and functional requirements engineering

• Experience in process modelling and improvement

• Experience in test planning, test case writing and validation

• Experience in business case preparation and analysis

• Delivery across Agile, Waterfall or hybrid lifecycles

• Experience working with solution architects, development teams and third-party vendors

• Confidence challenging business needs and existing processes with senior stakeholders Nice to have

• Bizzdesign or similar enterprise modelling tools

• Experience in transport, travel or other large operational environments If this fits your background, send an updated CV and I'll give you a call to talk it through.