Business Analyst

Business Analyst required by marker leading, award winning, professional services organisation based in Central Bristol. The Business Analyst will work on a hybrid basis with 1-2 days a week onsite with flexibility.

The successful Business Analyst will join our clients Business Change Team in Central Bristol, this role would suit someone who comes more from a business background, than IT/technical.

Main Responsibilities Include:

• Investigate business systems and processes and identifying options for improvement.
• Produce robust business cases and support the production of project plans, resource requirements and delivery of products to enable the realisation of business benefits Use appropriate business analysis activities throughout the project lifecycle to achieve the required outcomes.
• Identify and deliver successful business analysis products within different business change frameworks and environments e.g. agile, waterfall, projects and programmes.
• Identify and document business requirements using a range of business analysis techniques including interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal clients to analyse information, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Drive and challenge business teams on their assumptions of how the solution will meet their needs.
• Work with requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria to create test scripts, plans and scenarios.
• Support peers and junior team members to deliver business analysis products of a high standard throughout the project lifecycle.

Required Background/Experience:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Ability to extract and document business processes and identify where improvements can be made.
• Excellent Excel, Vision and general Microsoft Office skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to adapt to different working styles to get the most out of the team and project contributors.
• Good technical understanding (The role will be business focused not IT focused).
• Self-starter with good time management skills, ability to prioritise conflicting deadlines and expectations.
• Evaluate information gathered and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs.
• Document the results of business analysis, for example workflows, obtaining sign-off from clients on the As-Is and To-Be process or solution.
• Document use cases or user stories, analysing requirements and agreeing their priority with clients and stakeholders, including evaluating a minimum viable product for the proposed solution.
• Review and update requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solution to ensure traceability of decisions and related changes.

This fantastic role comes with a basic salary of £48,000-55,000 p/a and on top of the bespoke training package, comes with the following benefits: A 10% annual bonus, remote working, annual salary review, 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service), private medical insurance, pension and many more.