Business Analyst

Accenture UK; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 25 days vacation

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave per year for Charit

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Business Analyst (CL9 – Consultant) to join the Secure Transformation Services team in the UK. The role involves discovering and translating business needs into deliverable requirements, while collaborating with Design, Research and engineering teams.

You will lead workshops, facilitate stakeholder alignment and contribute to agile delivery in complex, regulated environments. Flexibility to spend time onsite with clients is required, with opportunities to influence product

Qualifications

• Performing discoveries and grounding design decisions to user needs.
• Collaborative and capable of leading workshops with stakeholders and users.
• Experience in agile environments and familiar with SDLC.
• Ability to translate business needs into traceable requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Experience working with designers and researchers.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document business needs and translate into epics and user stories.
• Collaborate with Design, Research, and Development teams to shape solutions.
• Help maintain Agile boards and ensure readiness/done criteria.
• Lead workshops and facilitate stakeholder alignment.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

AI awareness

User stories

Agile / Scrum

Requirements elicitation

Job description

Role

Business Analyst

Location

London, Birmingham, Bristol

Salary

Competitive (based on experience)

Level

CL9 – Consultant

Security Requirement

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.

Company Overview

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

Secure Transformation Services

Join Secure Transformation Services, the UK market leading team for sovereign tech transformation at secure clients working on projects in complex, regulated, public sector environments.

We deliver services that make a lasting impact by improving users lives, making our country safer and enabling business to evolve. Our impact goes beyond improving utilisation and sales KPIs. We are expanding the STS Business Analysis team to shape new ambitious and business critical products and experiences for users of both public and private sector clients.

The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

Requirements

• Performing discoveries and are comfortable with planning, conducting, analysing and communicating findings that ground design decisions against user needs.
• An intellectually curious, creative problem solver and passionate about solving business problems by creating inclusive, accessible services for a diverse user population.
• Collaborative and supportive, and you enjoy working in a dynamic and creative environment. You are comfortable working with the different technical experts being part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Keen to be up-to date with AI advancements and are passionate to steer clients to take advantage of AI, and how AI can bring efficiencies to your ways of working.
• Co-creator with stakeholders and users. You relish participation of stakeholders and the wider team and have experience leading workshops and broader inclusive design initiatives.
• A great with stakeholders and are an engaging communicator, able to speak fluently to businesspeople, designers, engineers and other stakeholders.
• Elaborate epics and user stories from high level concepts to 'playable' units of work for the Developers.
• Craft and translate business needs into traceable requirements and show evidence how the solutions meet the required needs with measurable value and business priority.
• Comfortable working with the team reshaping user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
• Elaborate epics and user stories from high level concepts to 'playable' units of work for the Developers.
• Work closely with the Design and Research team, notably User Researchers and Service Designers, and integrate and enable user research as part of elaboration and continuous improvement.
• Assist the / Delivery Manager / Scrum Master with maintenance of physical and digital Agile boards.
• Can articulate the definition of ready/done, user story kick-off and sign-off and requirements for UAT.
• Work with other Business Analysts, Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Technical Leads and QA and external stakeholders on site.
• An advocate for best practice and promote business analysis across Secure Transformation Services.

Experience

• Previous business analysis experience.
• Knowledge and application of the Requirements Engineering Process and experience in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience of applying a variety of BA techniques appropriate to the business situation such as Business Process Modelling (using BPMN), Context Diagrams, Use Cases, SWOT analysis, MOST analysis and Business Activity Models to support the investigation and analysis of business situations.
• Experience of working in an agile context.
• Experience in a range of prioritisation techniques (RoM, t-shirt sizing, MoSCoW etc).
• Understanding of user centric design experience with non-functional aspects such as security, privacy, accessibility, performance and reliability.

What’s in it for you

• up to 25 days’ vacation per year
• private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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