Business Analyst w. French

About the job Business Analyst w. French

• We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with Product Owner capabilities, to take on a key role in the evolution and maintenance of our document management applications.

This role involves working closely with the development team and other internal teams, as well as third-party stakeholders in France. You will work across teams, stakeholders, and cultures, contributing to the shift toward agile ways of working.

• Gather and clarify business needs from internal teams as well as third party partners (such as the French Post)
• Translate business requirements into clear, actionable user stories and functional specifications
• Maintain a clear and realistic product backlog by aligning business priorities with technical capacity and delivery timelines
• Estimate effort and cost in collaboration with developers, track team capacity and monitor budget usage
• Prepare regular reports on progress, budget, and risk, for management and stakeholders
• Facilitate planning sessions and retrospectives
• Conduct acceptance testing and validate deliverables before release
• Support the cultural and methodological shift toward agile ways of working

Profile

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analysts, ideally with exposure to Product Owner / Project Manager responsibilities
• Excellent communication skills in French and English, both written and spoken able to bridge gaps between languages as needed
• Strong autonomy and emotional intelligence (take ownership while nurturing collaboration
• Skilled at synthetizing the big picture while remaining detail-oriented when execution demands it
• Able to anticipate obstacles, propose improvements, and create future-focused projections and plans
• Good understanding of budget estimation, tracking and reporting
• Experience in working in agile environments, ideally with cross-functional, multicultural teams
• Promoter of best practices in documentations, process design, and agile collaboration
• Comfortable with tools like JIRA, Confluence, and MS Office Suite
  
  Not only feature-driven: a mindset focused on clarity, structure and improvement

Nice to have:

Experience on IT banking projects

Experience in managing relationships with external partners and third parties, especially in a regulated context (such as document management)

Familiarity with public-sector organizations or postal services

Experience in document lifecycle management