Business Analyst

BDO; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services provider is looking for a Business Analyst to work with stakeholders and ensure that business requirements are aligned with IT solutions. The ideal candidate should have strong analytical and communication skills, a relevant degree, and experience in a compliance-oriented environment. This role offers opportunities for professional growth within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Tertiary or vendor aligned technical qualifications in business analysis.
• Experience capturing requirements in a compliance-oriented environment.
• Strong understanding of systems/software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Establish strong working relationships with Product Owners.
• Gather and analyse business requirements.
• Create process maps for potential improvements.

Skills

Business analysis

Documentation skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Technical knowledge of programming

Education

University IT or Business degree

PMI or PRINCE2 certification

Job description

About BDO

BDO is the leading mid‑tier professional services provider globally. In 2024, we recorded global revenues of over US$15 billion across our core service lines – Audit & Assurance, Tax, Advisory, and Business Services & Outsourcing. With a worldwide community of over 119k professionals operating in 166 countries and territories, we’re dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex financial and strategic challenges, aligned to our core purpose People helping people.

More information about BDO can be found on www.bdo.global.

A great place to work

Building a thriving global team is an essential pillar of our bold new vision Global solutions. Driven to be the best. It’s no surprise that our offices around the world are regularly recognised with awards and accolades. We’re a people‑powered business, with a diverse, dynamic and inclusive international team who are committed to excellence, innovation, and integrity.

Professional growth

Our collaborative, international environment fosters professional growth and development, to ensure that all our people thrive. We’re committed to transferring and sharing resources, knowledge, skills, and experience across our organisation, and our Global Mobility Programme provides the gateway to a whole world of opportunities.

Make a difference

We believe businesses have both an economic imperative and an ethical responsibility to contribute to a more sustainable and equitable world. In 2021, we committed to achieving net‑zero carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner. As part of our global sustainability efforts, we continue to integrate responsible practices into our operations and work with clients to support their own net‑zero journeys. In addition, we’re proud to support thousands of colleagues around the globe to ‘give back’ in the communities in which we operate.

Position: Business Analyst

The Business Analyst works with stakeholders from key business units and related third parties to define and document business processes and software requirements for Global IT’s product suite, including online products, content management systems, and business information systems.

The purpose of this position is to act as the pivot or intermediary between defined business stakeholder groups and IT to ensure that business requirements are delivered in IT solutions; inclusive of the development of reports, preparing information from internal and external data sources to support compliance‑oriented business decisions, projects and other initiatives.

Key accountabilities

• Establish strong working relationships with defined Product Owner’s and working groups to drive the continued development of the Global IT product suite.
• Meeting with stakeholder groups to gather and analyse business requirements.
• Provide guidance and support to business in determining and recommending information needs.
• Respond to requests for information by summarising and analysing internal and external processes and data sources.
• Work closely with Solution Architects and Product Owner to populate and maintain the Product Backlog and Product Roadmap.
• Analyse workflow(s) to create process maps and isolate areas of potential improvement.
• Develop requirement and functional specifications that define and document desired outcome of system enhancements and development.
• Producing technical specifications to communicate business requirements in technical terms to programmers and project teams.
• Identifying, preparing, 'crunching', analysing and presenting processes and data utilising available technologies.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), to ensure the overall efficiency, functionality and user friendliness of system enhancement/development meeting business expectations.
• Work as a crucial component of a project team responsible for enhancing existing systems or developing new systems.

Qualifications and Experience

• Tertiary or vendor aligned technical qualifications covering general business analysis and reporting (e.g. University IT or Business degree, certification e.g. Microsoft, ITIL). PMI or PRINCE 2 or Equivalent Business Analyst certification highly desirable.
• Strong ability to converse with both business and IT employees at all levels of the organisation.
• Experience capturing requirements within a compliance‑oriented environment.
• Outstanding ability to analyse, isolate and interpret business needs and develop appropriate technical solutions.
• Outstanding functional and technical specification writing/documentation skills.
• Strong understanding of all aspects of the systems/software development lifecycle.
• Technical knowledge of programming, system design, IT infrastructure and database concepts is desirable.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Able to work with multiple third‑party vendors.
• Ability to balance priorities among competing needs.
• Well‑developed interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence and drive other team members.

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Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Analyst

Industries

• Accounting and Business Consulting and Services