Business Analyst Consultant

Datasource; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm seeks an experienced Business Analyst to work on complex defence projects. Candidates should have strong consultancy experience, the ability to translate requirements into actionable outcomes, and proficiency in Agile methodologies. This hybrid role requires 2-3 days on-site work and includes various additional benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Contributory pension with matching contributions

Life assurance

Occupational sick pay

Personal accident insurance

Qualifications

• Proven track record in delivering business requirements.
• Experience in transformation and complex projects.
• Ability to translate complex needs into actionable items.

Responsibilities

• Capture business requirements and conduct detailed analysis.
• Turn business needs into functional specifications.
• Support testing and quality assurance.

Skills

Communication skills

Business analysis techniques

Agile methodologies

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Tools

PowerBI

Tableau

QlikSense

Job description

Introduction

Our large consulting client are looking for a skilled Business Analyst to provide solutions for their complex programmes and projects.

You will need good consultancy experience as you'll be working with defence clients and stakeholders as well as previous experience working in the defence sector.

This role will be a hybrid position with 2-3 days per week on site, as well as travel to other sites too.

Key responsibilities

• Capture business requirements
• Conduct detailed analysis of processes, systems and data
• Analyse and document processes and workflow and system interactions
• Turning business requirements into functional specifications
• Implement product centric operating models
• Ensure products developed are in line with business requirements.
• Conduct assessment and feasibility studies
• Support testing and quality assurance
• Performing data analysis to identify trends and patterns
• Staying up to date with industry trends and practices

Skills & experience

• Technical and business focused skills, who can articulate the outcomes and value of their work.
• Business Analyst or in a similar role, with a strong track record of successfully delivering business requirements within a project delivery environment.
• Experience working on Transformation and/or complex delivery projects
• The ability to translate complex business needs into actionable requirements.
• Proficiency in business analysis techniques, such as process modelling & lean practices, use case development and requirements elicitation.
• Experience with Agile delivery and knowledge of methodologies and tools, such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe 5.0, LeSS.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate.
• Knowledge of how PowerBI, Tableau, QlikSense or other analytical tools
• Expertise in how to test against the requirements and ensure confidence in the outputs
• Ability to understand, interpret, present and challenge technical and/or complex information to colleagues at all levels of an organisation
• Maintaining strong relationships with business stakeholders

Additional benefits

• Holidays, starting at 25 days a year
• A flexible contributory pension arrangement with matching contributions
• Life assurance of six times your core salary (up to a maximum of six times the Earnings Cap, in force at date of death)
• Occupational sick pay
• Personal accident insurance
• Mobile phone is not fully funded but you can claim on expenses for business use.

Our client is committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.

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