Business Analyst

PA Consulting; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

PA Consulting is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join their internal team. This role involves leading the analysis and design of crucial business systems, and you will be expected to engage with senior stakeholders and drive change across the organization. Candidates should be strategic thinkers with strong relationship-building skills and a knack for problem-solving, backed by relevant experience in business process mapping and stakeholder management. Hybrid working is available, requiring a minimum of two days in the office or onsite with clients.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave plus additional leave options

Generous pension scheme

Community and charity initiatives

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Tax efficient benefits

Qualifications

• Proactive, strategic thinker passionate about solving complex business problems.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead workshops and facilitate decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end business analysis lifecycle across various projects.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to prioritize business goals and requirements.
• Translate high-level business goals into detailed functional specifications.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and analysis to identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure fit-for-purpose solutions.

Skills

Business process mapping

Requirements gathering

Analytical mindset

Stakeholder management

Written communication skills

Tools

Workday

PeopleSoft Financials

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM

Azure DevOps

Job description

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the internal Business Analyst team within the Group Systems corporate IT function. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will lead the analysis and design of business-critical systems and processes, delivering enterprise-wide solutions that drive operational excellence and digital transformation across the organisation.

What We're Looking For

We are seeking a proactive, strategic thinker with a passion for solving complex business problems. You'll be confident building relationships with stakeholders at all levels, challenging and influencing projects and driving change in a dynamic environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end business analysis lifecycle across a variety of different sized projects
• Engage with senior stakeholders to elicit, challenge, and prioritise business goals
• Translate high-level business goals into detailed functional and non-functional requirements
• Define and document current and future state business processes
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and data analysis to uncover issues and areas for improvement
• Collaborate with technical project teams to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose and aligned with the business requirements
• Develop and deliver business change strategies, alongside internal comms and learning teams to ensure successful adoption

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment

Qualifications

• Expertise in business process mapping and requirements gathering
• Strong analytical mindset with an inquisitive nature
• Effective management of priorities, time and workload
• Demonstrated ability to lead workshops that facilitate decision-making
• Ability to build and proactively maintain positive working relationships
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders
• Excellent written communication skills, including business cases, user stories, and training materials
• Willingness to seek opportunities and feedback to continue to learn and share skills and knowledge

Desirable Technical Skills

• Experience with enterprise platforms such as Workday, PeopleSoft Financials, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps or similar tools for backlog and delivery management
• Understanding of data integration, reporting, and automation concepts

We know the skill-gap and 'somewhat need to tick every box' can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply - we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We're committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [e-mail]

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