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Business Analyst

We Manage Jobs(WMJobs)

Birmingham

Hybrid

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

8 days ago

Job summary

A public agency in the UK is looking for a Business Analyst to work on large scale transformation projects. You will be responsible for bridging between customers and the Digital Team, optimizing business processes, and supporting implementations. The role is based in Birmingham and involves a mix of remote and office work. Proven BA experience, ideally with ERP systems, and strong analytical skills are essential.

Qualifications

  • Proven BA experience with ERP and Data Warehouse solutions.
  • Experience on large scale projects and team collaboration.
  • Excellent communication skills for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience with business process optimization tools.

Responsibilities

  • Manage business requirements and convert them into technical specifications.
  • Produce and optimize business process models.
  • Evaluate and recommend business process improvements.
  • Support transition from As-Is to To-Be states.

Skills

Business process modelling
Analytical skills
Interpersonal skills
Technical solution articulation
Job description

Are you a Business Analyst with experience of working on large scale transformation projects? Do you have a good understanding of the full business analysis lifecycle from Pre-Project and Scoping to User Acceptance Testing and Release Management?

This might be the role for you!

You will play an important part in delivering business outcomes by providing the link between customers and service users and the Digital and Data Team. Working across the organisation and engaging with a range of stakeholders, you will act as a ‘translator’ to identify enhanced digital ways of working and process flow opportunities, converting business requirements into technical specifications.

The position plays a key role in ensuring that WMCA continually develops and maintains a strong relationship between the Digital and Data Team and the wider business.

Please note, this is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

What you will be doing.

  • Work as part of the wider Business Analysis Team to ensure business requirements are optimised and accurately converted to technical requirements.
  • Produce end-to-end, customer facing business process models (including As Is, To Be and transitional states) and optimise them to support our digital transformation initiatives.
  • Use data modelling to create and analyse suggestions for strategic and operational improvements and changes, identifying potential areas of automation from re-engineering the underlying business processes.
  • Evaluate internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes in order to recommend business and process flow improvements.
  • Collect, understand and document business requirements and translate these into functional specifications and detailed test plans, ensuring the organisation’s requirements are understood and delivered by suppliers.
  • Perform route to market and implementation planning activities.
  • Ensure plans are in place and processes are created to evaluate the impact of all changes made.
  • Ensure solutions are tested and signed off by the business adequately prior to implementation and ensuring benefit and value realisation post implementation.
  • Work with project stakeholders to understand and investigate feedback.
  • Support the Lead BA in creating and maintaining standards and ways of working.
  • Contribute to the strategy to improve digital ways of working, optimise business operations and setting the direction and approach for integrating information applications and programmes.
  • Understand the organisation’s ecosystems and its inter-dependencies in order to support and maintain business analysis principles, policies and standards adopted across the organisation.
  • Maintain knowledge of the latest Business Analyst skills, tools and ways of working, identifying emerging trends and their opportunities and potential impact on WMCA.
  • Take a holistic view across all domains, portfolios, programmes and projects to enhance the Business Analysis community.

What’s essential.

  • Proven BA experience.
  • BA experience in implementing ERP systems and Data Warehouse/ Data Lake and reporting solutions.
  • Worked within a team of Business Analysts on a range of varying sized projects.
  • An understanding of and appropriate experience in the full Business Analysis role in project lifecycles including Pre-Project, Scoping, Estimating, Mapping, Stakeholder Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Solution Analysis, Product Analysis, User Acceptance Testing and Release Management.
  • Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and non-technical people.
  • Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to identify and resolve issues experienced by customer leads and end users.
  • Ability to work under broad direction within challenging and unpredictable environments, influencing strategic decision making.
  • Proven experience of working to tight deadlines, delivering on time, to budget and scope.
  • Experience of business process modelling and optimisation tools and techniques.
  • Supporting transition from the As-Is position to the To-Be state, identifying the approach to be taken.
  • Proven experience of identifying potential solutions and appropriateness of emerging technologies.
  • A track record of building rapport and excellent relationships with a range of stakeholders to ensure a user centric experience and deliver planned business outcomes.
  • Experience at identifying opportunities and evaluating and mitigating issues and risks.
  • Substantial experience of working on large scale projects.

Location.

The location for this role is 16 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3SD with at least 2 days a week spent in the office.

Equal Employment Opportunity.

WMCA is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

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