Business Analyst

Sword Group; Scotland; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Scotland is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to collaborate with stakeholders, analyze data, and deliver insightful solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills and experience in delivering solutions for applications. The role offers a comprehensive benefits package and a supportive work environment, focusing on professional development and work-life balance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience delivering solutions around applications and supporting project managers.
• Ability to present data driven insights to non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate service design and gather requirements.
• Conduct gap analysis and ensure all requirements are fulfilled.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify needs.

Skills

Experience as a Business Analyst

Strong analytical skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to translate business requirements

Job description

Overview

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving real transformation change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

The Business Analyst role will involve working collaboratively with stakeholders to gather requirements, analyse data and deliver insightful solutions to enhance decision making processes and support smooth project delivery. The role will join one of our Energy sector teams within an Oil & Gas Operator environment and will benefit from an excellent working environment.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate service design and gather requirements.
• Handle project kick-off and close-out activities.
• Conduct gap analysis and ensure all requirements are fulfilled.
• Review and generate pertinent documentation.
• Analyse data to produce insightful reports that aid in strategic decision-making.
• Demonstrate the ability to dissect complex issues and convert them into actionable deliverables, including solutions and services.
• Engage with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to define and agree upon reporting and analytics requirements, while providing guidance to the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify needs and set objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst with demonstrable experience delivering solutions around applications and supporting project managers with delivery of work streams
• Ability to translate business requirements in to use cases (with descriptions, acceptance criteria, functional and non-functional requirements)
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets
• Strong analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present data driven insights to non- technical audiences
• Ability to present visualizations/reports in a business context to business stakeholders

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life.

In addition to a Competitive Salary, here’s what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance. We can discuss individual preferences to make it work where possible.

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more.

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

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