IT Business Analyst

Costain; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled IT Business Analyst to join their dynamic Management Office team for a 6-month contract. This role involves developing IT solutions that enhance corporate departments and manage change effectively. You will engage with diverse stakeholders, document business requirements, and support project management initiatives. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to innovative solutions in a collaborative environment, ensuring that the organization meets its strategic goals. If you thrive in a fast-paced setting and enjoy problem-solving, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience working in business improvement and IT operations.
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Gather and document business requirements from stakeholders.
• Collaborate with project teams to support delivery objectives.

Skills

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Problem Solving

Agile Methodologies

ITIL

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

Prioritization Skills

Education

Experience in Business Improvement

Experience in IT Operations

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

JIRA

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for an IT Business Analyst, within the Costain Management Office (CMO) team, for a 6 month contract while an existing team member is off on sabbatical.
The CMO team is part of the wider Strategy & Transformation function, managing change across organisation, as well as delivering Core IT solutions that support corporate departments, contracts and clients. The role will be a 6-month fixed term contract.

Reporting into the Lead Business Analyst, work in this role will primarily focus on developing IT solutions that support corporate departments and contracts but will also support wider change in the business. The person will be responsible for creating requirements for new projects and on occasions, ensuring the project is managed efficiently and accurately following our change management processes.

To complete these responsibilities, you will need to engage with users and stakeholders from across the business, interpreting requirements, feeding these into the delivery team and, on occasion, supporting project management. You will be part of project teams throughout the delivery lifecycle of initiatives, supporting great communication and innovative solutions for the business.

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Responsibilities

Our project teams apply ITIL and Agile methods and Oracle, Microsoft or third-party platforms to quickly deliver value.

You will demonstrate the flexibility to work on multiple initiatives at a time, if required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gather, review, analyse and document business requirements
• Identify key stakeholders, ensuring clear communications and building trusted relationships
• Liaise between various business departments and groups to support requirements gathering
• Maintain documentation regarding various projects, processes and operations
• Collaborate with project managers, other analysts and cross functional teams to support delivery of objectives
• Project managing smaller initiatives across the overall lifecycle, as required
• Build relationships across the Strategy and Transformation team, to understand individuals' skillsets and support delivery
• Contribute to the Business Analyst team to support continuous improvements of methods, tools and techniques

Qualifications

• E experience working in a business improvement and/or IT operations
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence key stakeholders
• Excellent leadership skills
• Problem solver who thinks creatively to create innovative solutions
• Ability to stay calm under pressure
• Prioritisation skills to ensure focus on most critical requirements
• Familiarity with industry technology systems to gather data and problem solve
• Understanding of project delivery methodologies in traditional waterfall, agile and hybrid
• Proficient using Microsoft suite of tools, including Excel and PowerPoint
• Understanding of project team structures, roles, responsibilities
• Comfortable working with different types and seniority of stakeholders, including analysts, clients, technology specialists and senior leaders
• Desirable: experience in a similar role in a professional services environment
• Desirable: experience in delivery of Microsoft Azure based services
• Desirable: experience using JIRA project tracking software to manage projects

About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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