Freelance Functional Analist

📍 Brussels (Hybrid) (3 days on site)

⏳ Long-term freelance assignment

🗣 English + Dutch or French

📅 Start: ASAP

We are looking for an experienced Functional Analyst to join a cross-functional Agile product team responsible for developing and evolving critical digital solutions supporting complex operational and commercial business processes.

In this role, you will play a key part throughout the entire product lifecycle, from understanding business needs and designing functional solutions to testing, implementation support, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with product owners, business stakeholders, developers, and end users to deliver high-value solutions that support operational excellence and future business challenges.

The application landscape covers a broad range of business processes, including customer onboarding, contract management, demand processing, planning, balancing, billing, invoicing, reporting, data publication, and B2B communication. As part of an international and evolving environment, you will contribute to the modernization and future readiness of these solutions.

As a Functional Analyst, you will:

• Gain a deep understanding of customer and business needs and translate them into valuable, feasible product enhancements.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to gather, analyze, and validate business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications and conceptual models.
• Create and maintain UML and BPMN models, including use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and information models.
• Collaborate closely with developers and other team members to refine requirements into user stories.
• Support effort estimation and sprint planning activities.
• Create, execute, and validate functional test scenarios.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and guide end users throughout the testing process.
• Prepare and deliver demonstrations, training sessions, and functional documentation.
• Handle service requests, investigate production issues, and propose process improvements.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Must-have skills & experience

• Proven experience as a Functional Analyst or Business Analyst.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, or similar).
• Solid knowledge of UML and BPMN modelling techniques.
• Experience with modelling and documentation tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect and Confluence.
• Good understanding of relational databases.
• Ability to write and understand basic SQL queries.
• Experience with backlog and sprint management tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Fluent in English.
• Good command of either Dutch or French, with the willingness to improve the other language.

Nice to have

• Experience within complex operational or regulated environments.
• Knowledge of large-scale business-critical applications.
• Understanding of customer-facing digital platforms.
• Experience working with integration-heavy application landscapes.

What's in it for you

• Long-term freelance engagement.
• Challenging and impactful projects in a complex business environment.
• A collaborative Agile culture with experienced professionals.
• Exposure to large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
• Opportunity to contribute to innovative solutions and future-oriented business evolution.
• Flexible hybrid working model.
• Competitive day rate aligned with your experience and expertise.

Interested?

Are you a Functional Analyst who enjoys bridging the gap between business and IT? Do you thrive in Agile environments and like working on complex, high-impact products?

📩 Send us your CV, availability, and daily rate, and let's discuss how this opportunity could match your next freelance challenge.