Associate Business Analyst

SEOPA LTD; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a thriving fintech company in Northern Ireland as an Associate Business Analyst! This dynamic role offers the chance to work on innovative projects, collaborating with talented professionals in a supportive environment. You'll be empowered to identify solutions to business challenges, create impactful documentation, and engage with various stakeholders. With a hybrid working policy, you can enjoy flexibility while contributing to meaningful work that drives the company's success. If you're ready to kickstart your career in a fast-paced and rewarding setting, this opportunity is perfect for you!

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Life Cover

Pension and Annual Pension Clinic

Health Cashback Plan

Hybrid Working Arrangements

Additional Service-Related Holidays

Cycle to Work Scheme

Full Access to Online Training Courses

Paid Company Events

Fully Funded Christmas Party

Qualifications

• Honours degree in computing, science, technology, engineering, or business-related discipline.
• Experience in IT, software development, or fintech is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Identify improvements for existing processes and products.
• Create business requirements and documentation for stakeholders.
• Conduct research and present findings to enhance product offerings.

Skills

Analytical Skills

MS Office (Excel)

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Basic Coding

Agile Methodologies

Data Interpretation

Figma

JIRA

ChatGPT

Education

Honours Degree in Computing or Related Field

A-Levels (3 grade ‘B’s or above)

Tools

Balsamiq

Figma

JIRA

A-HA

Job description

Kickstart your career with one of Northern Ireland’s most successful fintech companies!

This is an excellent time to join our award-winning company as we continue to evolve and innovate across the business and grow in new markets in our mission to help the world find better deals. You will have the opportunity to work in a friendly, dynamic, and inclusive environment with talented and passionate individuals and the option to work in a hybrid work pattern.

The Role

The Associate Business Analyst role is a dynamic position in which you will gain experience in identifying and finding technical solutions to business challenges. You will be involved in existing projects and be given the responsibility to suggest and be involved in new ones.

Tasks are varied – you could be helping business teams to introduce more efficient processes and tooling, writing mapping documents to enable the integration of new comparison system panel members or working with product owners to write requirements to enable the development of Seopa’s latest comparison systems!

You will work closely with various stakeholders within the company, including project managers, product owners, software and quality engineers, as well as external partners such as 3rd party suppliers, consultants and account and integration managers from panel member companies.

At Seopa, we value the contribution each one of our team members makes and so you will be involved in meaningful work that has a demonstrable impact on the business as soon as you’ve completed your onboarding.

Guided and mentored by experienced team members, you will be empowered to quickly take on more responsibility as you gain experience and build up your skills. Tasks you will be involved in may include, but won’t be limited to:

Identifying Solutions to Business Problems

• Helping stakeholders to identify improvements for existing processes, products, and software.
• Working with others to efficiently escalate and resolve technical operational issues.
• Monitoring and reporting on the performance of selected system performance KPIs.
• Conducting research into direct competitor activities and those in similar industries and presenting your findings, with recommendations, to the product owner and other stakeholders to ensure Seopa’s products continue to be ahead of the competition.
• Finding off-the-shelf tooling and systems that can be used to automate, simplify, or otherwise enhance business processes and product performance.

Requirements and Documentation

• Creating easily understood and comprehensive business requirements, diagrams, wireframes, and mock-ups to facilitate easily understood communication with key stakeholders.
• Writing user stories with acceptance criteria to enable developers to create product upgrades, feature enhancements and new products.
• Producing and maintaining clear and up-to-date documentation relating to projects, products, and features to enable the efficient running of the company systems.

Data Mapping and Partner Integrations

• Creating data mapping documents to enable the precise integration of 3rd party companies on Seopa’s price comparison systems.
• Working with stakeholders from Seopa’s technical department to successfully onboard new comparison members.

Presenting your Findings

• Conducting and utilising cost/benefit analyses to demonstrate commercial advantages to your recommendations.
• Participating in meetings with internal and external stakeholders to present issues and proposed solutions to problems or challenges.

Personal Specification

• Honours Degree in a computing, science, technology, engineering, mathematical or business-related discipline (minimum 2:1) ideally with some coding or programming experience.
• 3 grade ‘B’s or above at A-Level are desirable, although not essential.

Experience

• Experience in an IT, software development, website development, e-commerce, fintech or financial services environment is desirable, potentially as part of a placement year.
• Whilst you will not have to write software as part of this role, experience in writing basic code, creating websites and/or a general appreciation of web/software development would be advantageous.

Capabilities

• Excellent analytical and data interpretation skills.
• Excellent skills in MS Office (particularly Excel).
• Ability to manage projects successfully against tight deadlines.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to self-educate where required.
• An understanding of agile, scrum, sprint and waterfall methodologies would be advantageous.
• Experience in Balsamiq, Figma, JIRA, A-HA or equivalent packages would be beneficial.
• Experience with ChatGPT would be beneficial.

Personal Qualities

• Good interpersonal skills
• Articulate, ambitious, enthusiastic and responsible
• Logical, process driven thinker with attention to detail
• Self-motivated and able to use your initiative where possible
• Must be eligible to live and work in the UK
• Can identify with and adhere to our company values – Smart, Efficient, Open, Passionate and Accountable.

Seopa offers an excellent remuneration package consisting of a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits include:

• Private medical insurance
• Life cover
• Pension and annual pension clinic
• Health cashback plan
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Additional service-related holidays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Full access to online training courses
• Paid for company events – including a fully funded Christmas party and other social/hosted events during the year.

Location

The company operates a hybrid working policy, where employees have the opportunity to work both from home and from our offices at Floor 4, Blackstaff Studios, 8-10 Amelia Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT2 7GS.

How to Apply

Please submit your CV to [e-mail]