Business Analyst - Times Media

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We are News UK Technology: using technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of media and storytelling. We keep people at the heart of our business through value-driven and inclusive practices enabling our staff to grow and thrive. As such, we are proud members of Tech Talent Charter UK with 34% of our Tech roles filled by gender minorities. News UK Tech is an award-winning team, winning Team of the Year at the UK Business and Innovation Awards, 2023.

The Team: The Times informs, entertains, campaigns and innovates. Our technology team is at the heart of this innovation and helps support a highly creative, multi-channel media operation that has a heritage of modernity, of being first and creating change.

Your Role: We’re looking for a Business Analyst to join The Times Media team to work with development teams to translate product visions into requirements and solutions that can be successfully delivered and will help enhance the reader experience. We are currently building out interactive capabilities across Puzzles and capabilities which will help with how we tell stories to our readers.

Business Analysts are at the heart of our most exciting initiatives to ensure alignment between business goals and technical implementations.

Day to day you will:

1. Engage in business analysis activities that ensure that we continue to develop and improve our widely recognised media products to support the immediate and longer term business needs.
2. Conduct in-depth analysis during the discovery phase on prioritised initiatives. This may also include working with dependent tech teams to understand and illustrate how work sequences together across larger cross-team deliverables.
3. Ensuring requirements are broken down and clearly articulated into well defined epics and user stories that can be prioritised according to their clearly outlined business value.
4. Facilitating the delivery phase and helping to define any new or changing requirements in a clear and transparent way.
5. Ensure there is feedback to the team and key business stakeholders when key stories are delivered which helps to articulate the value that has been created.

You should also expect to actively research best practice and strategic direction within the industry and find ways to share this back into the team. Part of your role will also include contributing and maintaining the quality of BA standards and practices as part of the BA community.

What we’re looking for from you:

1. Experience in eliciting requirements through various techniques which can include workshops, interviews and shadowing.
2. Experience in creating comprehensive documentation, including functional specifications, user stories, and use cases, to clearly communicate requirements (outlining business value, risks, assumptions and constraints) to development teams and business stakeholders where required.
3. Experience facilitating conversations outlining potential solutions and prioritising options based on business value or required outcomes.

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Some of our benefits include:

1. Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
2. Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
3. Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions.
4. Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes.
5. ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme.
6. Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books.
7. Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities.
8. Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling.
9. A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.
10. 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year.
11. Thriving employee networks supporting colleagues to embed and grow, including women in technology, parenting, wellbeing, GenZ, NewsIsOut and faith-oriented groups.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.