2431 - Business Analyst

Payroll With Perks LTD; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A progressive payroll solutions company in Milton Keynes is seeking a strategically-minded Business Analyst. You will analyse business processes, recommend improvements, and work collaboratively with teams to ensure services meet user needs. The ideal candidate has strong IT skills, excellent problem-solving abilities, and experience in project management. This full-time position offers a standard work week with statutory holidays and pension benefits.

Benefits

Pension

Statutory holidays

Qualifications

• Competent IT user, especially MS packages
• Strong attention to detail regarding accounting systems
• Excellent written communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to persuade and influence stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

• Analyse and understand business processes and opportunities
• Research to understand the business area and needs
• Identify areas for improvement and recommend solutions
• Ensure products meet business and user needs
• Facilitate workshops and gather requirements

Skills

IT proficiency (MS Office)

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Project management

Job description

Overview

PWP Group are searching for a looking for a strategically-minded Business Analyst.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and understand the business processes, problems or opportunities.
• Undertake research and analysis to understand how a business or business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology.
• Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures.
• Identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and testing of services and business change.
• Make decisions related to prioritisation and minimum viable product by using analysis led insights.
• Ensure new products and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals as well as liaising with the technical and non- technical teams within the business.
• Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience

• Competent IT user (e.g. MS packages, Outlook etc).
• Attention to detail and ability to understand accounting systems.
• An ability to produce clear written communications and good interpersonal skills.
• An ability to persuade and influence a wide range of people, both internally and externally.
• Excellent problem solving skills and ability to find creative solutions.
• Able to work under pressure and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Experience of working to a standard project management approach (eg RSPB Project Management Framework, Prince II).
• Experience of analysing complex business processes and recommendation of areas of improvement.
• Good workshop/meetings facilitations skills as well as experience in requirements gathering, analysis and documentation.

Details

• Hours Per Week: 37.5
• Working hours: 9.00am-5.00pm Monday to Friday, 30 mins unpaid lunch.
• Statutory holidays.
• Pension.