Business Analyst

Posted 09 February 2024
Salary £41,000
LocationBristol
Job type Permanent
Discipline Technology RecruitmentInformation Technology Recruitment
Contact NameNick Francis

Job description

​​We are currently partnering with a large, respected and progressive not-for-profit business in Bristol in their search for a Business Analyst on a permanent basis.

Working within the Business Change Team, the key function of the role is to provide business analysis support on an exciting digital transformation programme of work and continuous improvement activities. The role works closely with project managers and stakeholders to identify, analyse, and recommend business improvements and develop solutions.  

The Key Activities:

  • Produce design documents, containing multi-level process maps that can portray business requirements, data requirements and data flows between applications including system interfaces 

  • Work closely with project managers to identify the drivers, costs, benefits, and impacts of a proposed business change to develop the business case

  • Design and facilitate workshops to engage staff to understand root cause issues, challenge assumptions to identify improvement opportunities for business benefit

  • Use data modelling practices to analyse findings and create suggestions for strategic and operational improvements and changes

  • Develop user-stories / functional specifications to prioritise requirements against business value

  • Identifying issues, risks and benefits of existing and proposed solutions and outlining business impacts to the project manager 

  • Analyse, validate and effectively communicate the requirements across stakeholder groups using appropriate modelling techniques

  • Communicate, challenge and influence a variety of stakeholders effectively to gain ownership, involvement and commitment

  • Working closely with IT Team to build business system knowledge including systems architecture and interfaces 

Key skills required:

  • Extensive experience as a business analyst supporting the implementation of IT business-change projects and continuous improvement

  • Process-driven with a passion for process improvement

  • Detailed experience in leading effective workshops to elicit requirements and map out business change journeys

  • Proficiency in business analysis tools & techniques e.g. Business Process Modelling and use case modelling 

Please note that you require recent experience to apply for this role.

James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role.

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