Business Analyst – IT

La Fosse Associates; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A legal and finance service provider is looking for a Business Analyst to join their team in Cardiff. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in IT-related projects, strong analytical skills, and stakeholder management experience. This hybrid role involves defining project scope, managing requirements, and contributing to business transformation initiatives. Interested candidates can contact Lauren Stutz for more details.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst in relevant sectors.
• Experience with infrastructure and application projects.
• Strong analytical skills and documentation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Define project scope and manage requirements.
• Contribute to business case development.
• Support business change initiatives.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Agile methodologies

Project management

Job description

Overview

An established and renowned Legal Firm are looking to hire a Business Analyst to report into the Software Development Programme Manager. You will be working on a variety of IT-led initiatives that span Infrastructure and application-based projects, playing a key role in shaping and delivering real business change. This is a hands-on role where you’ll work closely with internal stakeholders across the business, from discovery through to delivery. You’ll help define and manage requirements, optimise business processes, and support teams through the full project lifecycle. Please note this role is hybrid and will require you to be onsite in the Birmingham or Cardiff office.

THE ROLE

The Business Analyst will be working on a variety of the business’s Infrastructure Projects and will be defining and managing requirements across both internal and external stakeholders. You will be managing the requirements through the full project lifecycle. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Defining project scope and benefits

• Contributing to business case development

• Eliciting and managing functional and non-functional requirements

• Mapping current and future business processes

• Supporting business change initiatives and benefits realisation

• Ensuring requirements traceability

• Contributing to testing and facilitating user acceptance testing

• Presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders

You’ll also collaborate with Project Managers and Lead BAs to determine the most effective analysis approach, and take ownership of your workstreams to ensure successful outcomes.

YOU

The Business Analyst who will be working on Software Development & Application focused projects will have prior experience of:

• 5+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, ideally in legal, finance, or IT-related sectors

• Experience as a Business Analyst working on infrastructure and application projects/programme

• Strong analytical thinking, with the ability to translate ideas into clear documentation

• Confident communicator, comfortable leading discussions and presenting to senior audiences

• Able to manage multiple projects and priorities in a structured and flexible way

• A self-starter who takes initiative and brings energy to their work

• Familiarity with Agile or other project delivery methodologies

• Exposure to business transformation or large-scale process change

• Experience working with third-party vendors or offshore development team

• Stakeholder management experience with both business and technical SMEs to deliver projects.

For more information please reach out to Lauren Stutz at La Fosse – [e-mail]