Agile Business Analyst - Permanent - £40,000-£45,000
A Business Analyst is required to join a multinational company based in London. This is a permanent opportunity that will allow the successful candidate to act as a conduit from the IT team to the rest of the business, to identify business needs, and to coordinate and manage change across the whole business.
Responsibilities / Accountabilities:
- To develop a sound knowledge of the business and the effect of the requested changes
- To liaise with business managers and employees to understand and document business requirements across affected business areas
- Contribute to and support research, requirement gathering and validation activities directly with customers, including usability and acceptance testing
- To understand, document and prioritise business requirements across affected business areas
- To work with business owners to develop optimal solutions
- To develop complete and accurate business models including process, data and organisation
- Work with project manager/s to plan analysis work and highlight risks and issues
- Work with the business owners to define acceptance criteria
- Assist in developing best practice in the execution of requirements, design and usability
- Create project initiation documents defining high-level scope.
Mandatory Skills and Experience:
Technical skills
- Demonstrable experience of being a Business Analyst
- Use of modelling tools, requirements management software, wire-framing tools and basic photoshop-type skills
- Experience of operation with Agile / DSDM project methodology
- Basic MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint skills
Personal skills
- Able to work with little direct supervision
- Able to work effectively in a team environment where team members may not be co-located
- Self-motivated and pro-active
- Good analytical and process improvement / business transformation skills
- Able to identify and manage business risks and issues
- Understands expectations that were set with business and recognises when issues / events may affect delivery.
Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Legal qualification or demonstrable knowledge of the Legal market
- Detailed knowledge of online services and content centres.