Commercial Business Analyst

Fruition Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work setup

Job summary

Fruition Group in London is seeking a Commercial Business Analyst to drive tangible commercial impact. You will work alongside client teams in a fast‑growing consultancy delivering AI‑driven solutions tied to cost, profitability and board OKRs, in a hybrid setup.

Responsibilities include baselining operations, building business cases, and linking solutions to client metrics, while ensuring evidence-based decisions and go/stop recommendations.

Qualifications

• Experience in requirements elicitation, process mapping, structured interviews and workshops with clear written synthesis.
• Financial modelling and benefits identification, realisation tracking.
• Analytical rigour with imperfect data and defensible numbers.
• Commercial awareness of consulting engagements pricing, scope and drift.
• Confident communicator, able to present to senior stakeholders up to board level.
• Solid AI literacy and ability to challenge feasibility claims.
• Sharp eye for spotting and scoping the next opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Baselining current-state operations, covering cost, volume, errors and time, to give every value claim a starting point
• Building quantified business cases, weighing best case against realistic value with sensitivity analysis on key assumptions
• Modelling realised, not just potential, value, adjusting for adoption, effectiveness and integration
• Advising on build-vs-buy decisions, with clear reasoning behind each call
• Connecting every solution to client OKRs and board-level metrics, translating operational gains into cost and margin terms
• Tracking benefits against baseline through pilots, so impact is proven with evidence rather than assumption
• Contributing to go/adjust/stop decisions, including making the honest case to stop
• Delivering classic BA work on established engagements: requirements elicitation, process analysis and documentation
• Turning engagement evidence into reusable value benchmarks and proof points for future work

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Process mapping

Structured interviews

Workshops facilitation

Financial modelling

Analytical reasoning

Presentation to stakeholders

AI literacy

Job description

Why Apply?

This is a Business Analyst position in London for someone who wants commercial impact, not just documentation. You'll work for a fast-growing consultancy that builds AI-driven solutions tied directly to client cost, profitability and board-level OKRs, sitting alongside Delivery Leads and Forward Deployed AI Engineers. If you're searching for a full-time Business Analyst role where your output becomes the evidence base for major business decisions, this is it, with the flexibility of a hybrid set-up and a genuine path through one of the more interesting corners of consultancy careers today.

Commercial Business Analyst Responsibilities

• Baselining current-state operations, covering cost, volume, errors and time, to give every value claim a starting point
• Building quantified business cases, weighing best case against realistic value with sensitivity analysis on key assumptions
• Modelling realised, not just potential, value, adjusting for adoption, effectiveness and integration
• Advising on build-vs-buy decisions, with clear reasoning behind each call
• Connecting every solution to client OKRs and board-level metrics, translating operational gains into cost and margin terms
• Tracking benefits against baseline through pilots, so impact is proven with evidence rather than assumption
• Contributing to go/adjust/stop decisions, including making the honest case to stop
• Delivering classic BA work on established engagements: requirements elicitation, process analysis and documentation
• Turning engagement evidence into reusable value benchmarks and proof points for future work

Commercial Business Analyst Requirements

• A strong business analysis foundation: requirements elicitation, process mapping, structured interviews, workshops and clear written synthesis
• Business case and financial modelling experience, including benefits identification, quantification and realisation tracking
• Analytical rigour with imperfect data, producing defensible numbers with honest confidence bounds
• Commercial awareness of how consulting engagements are priced, scoped and protected from drift
• A confident communicator, comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders up to board level
• Solid AI literacy, able to challenge feasibility claims and understand what drives adoption of AI tools
• A sharp eye for spotting and scoping the next opportunity

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.