Functional Analyst

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Industry: Consultancy & Advisory

Salary: Competitive (dependent on experience)

Overview

We are seeking a Functional Analyst to bridge business objectives and delivery teams, ensuring solutions are fit-for-purpose, compliant, and value-driven. You will collaborate with stakeholders to capture requirements, translate them into clear functional specifications, and support end-to-end delivery from discovery through to go-live and hypercare.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to elicit, analyse, and validate business needs.
• Document functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows (e.g., BPMN), and use cases.
• Support solution design by working with architects, developers, and product owners to define functional scope and priorities.
• Conduct impact assessments, gap analyses, and options appraisals; recommend pragmatic solutions.
• Maintain traceability across requirements, design, testing, and delivery artefacts.
• Support test strategy and execution: test scenarios, UAT coordination, defect triage, and retesting.
• Assist with change management: training materials, user guidance, and communications.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of analysis standards, templates, and ways of working.

Essential Requirements

• Proven experience as a Functional Analyst, Business Analyst, or similar role within consultancy/advisory environments.
• Strong requirements engineering skills, including stakeholder management and facilitation.
• Experience working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and/or hybrid delivery models.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear, testable specifications and prioritised backlogs.
• Familiarity with data concepts (data flows, basic modelling, data quality) and system integration considerations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary, multi-site teams and managing competing priorities.
• Right to work in Belgium and willingness to work on-site in Brussels as required.

Desirable

• Experience in regulated or public-sector contexts (e.g., security, privacy, auditability).
• Knowledge of tools such as Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Miro, Visio, or similar.
• Exposure to API-enabled ecosystems, CRM/ERP platforms, or digital transformation programmes.
• Certification such as IIBA, PMI-PBA, or Agile certifications.
• French and/or Dutch language skills in addition to English.

What You Can Expect

• Varied client engagements with meaningful business impact.
• A collaborative, quality-focused culture with opportunities for development and progression.
• Supportive delivery practices that value clarity, transparency, and measurable outcomes.