Intermediate Business Analyst

Hippo Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing consultancy in Manchester is searching for an Intermediate Business Analyst. You'll translate complex business problems into detailed requirements, work in agile settings, and collaborate with various stakeholders. With no specific certificates needed, strong communication and business analysis skills are crucial. This role offers a competitive salary, diverse working opportunities, and the chance to evolve into an expert in your field.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday plus UK public holidays

Perkbox access for discounts

Critical illness cover

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Cycle-to-work scheme

Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme

Season ticket loans

Flexible benefits options

Qualifications

• Strong business analysis skills are essential.
• Experience in agile workplaces is preferred.
• Excellent presentation skills to convey business analysis benefits.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain product backlog.
• Inform creation and iteration of prototypes.
• Document business processes for service/products.

Skills

Business analysis skills

Communication

Listening skills

Organisational skills

Agile methodology

Team collaboration

Job description

About The Role

Hippo is recruiting for Intermediate Business Analysts to join our growing consultancy. Business Analysts translate complex business problems and user needs into a set of detailed requirements for the end-to-end service or product, with the appropriate use of epics, features, user stories and defined acceptance criteria. You'll clearly and accurately communicate business requirements and user needs to a variety of stakeholders, including SMEs and the team, using the appropriate methods of communication or documentation.

As an Intermediate Consultant, specialising in Business Analysis, you’ll be on your way to becoming an expert in your field. You’ll be inquisitive, keen to learn and be an advocate for agile deliveries. Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to develop and share your expertise with clients and team members, and to develop into an expert Business Analyst.

Your role in a nutshell

• Work with the Product Owner and/or Delivery Manager to establish and maintain a prioritised product, programme or project backlog of what needs to be built
• Work with designers to inform the creation and iteration of prototypes for the services or product to solve the problems users face
• Document business processes for products or services to inform recommendations identifying clear benefits and contributing to delivery plans
• Use insights from user research and metrics to inform the business analysis approach, and explain your business decisions clearly
• Be an advocate in Agile delivery, helping to identify the best Agile processes for projects and measuring the success of outcomes.
• Run workshops with your team and stakeholders
• Build long-term relationships with stakeholders
• Advocate for the use of agile business analysis in particular for the delivery of products or services
• Advise and support business analysis colleagues and other members of Agile teams.
• Work with the hippo business analysis community to share best practice to ensure high standards, including attending business analysis events and writing blog posts

About the Candidate

People are at the centre of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our clients and their users. We take a common sense approach to getting things done. We get things wrong, we learn from experience and we adapt. We stay curious and never stop learning.

We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you can demonstrate the following:

• Have strong business analysis skills including communication, listening and organisational skills
• Have expertise in eliciting and management requirements to meet user needs within a product or services focussed project
• Enjoy working collaboratively with your team and experts
• Be comfortable working in rapid sprint cycles
• Be a strong presenter and happy to sell the benefits of business analysis to people who aren’t familiar with the discipline
• Have a positive “can do” attitude
• Have the ability to develop great consultancy skills, caring about your client’s needs and motivations
• Enjoy sharing your skills and experience with your client to enable them to continue to iterate and improve content after you leave
• Experience of working in an Agile workplace

About The Company

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
  • private health cover
  • private dental cover
  • additional company pension contributions
  • additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
  • wellbeing contribution
  • charity contributions
  • tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hippo locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We’re on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices which will be your contracted office location. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on‑site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.