Junior Business Analyst

Rider Levett Bucknall RLB; Winnersh; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established consulting firm is seeking a passionate Junior Business Analyst to join their IT Operations team in Thames Valley. The successful candidate will engage with businesses to understand their needs and translate them into actionable IT solutions. With a commitment to diversity and employee development, this role also offers a hybrid working arrangement and excellent benefits. If you have a degree in Business or a related field and are eager to grow in your career while contributing to exciting projects, apply now.

Benefits

Hybrid Working

Competitive Salary and Holiday Entitlement

Health and Wellness Options

Private Healthcare Insurance

Learning and Development Programme

Qualifications

• Degree in Business or related field required.
• Commercial experience or placement experience desirable.
• Experience in the construction industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of digital skills across RLB.
• Engage with the business to understand IT needs and translate them into requirements.
• Support project managers in producing business cases and feasibility assessments.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Thinking

Team Collaboration

Education

Degree in Business or similar qualification

Job description

Department: IT Operations

Location: Thames Valley

Description

Title: Junior Business Analyst
Location: Thames Valley/ Hybrid

Why RLB?
At RLB, we live by four simple ideas: Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. Four values that live at the heart of RLB. A place where People Make Progress.

We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless.
Bring them to RLB and you’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways.

We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious and exciting projects currently being designed and developed in the built environment sector.

You’ll continue to learn and advance as everyone who works for us is provided with a tailored training programme. Our mentoring and reverse mentoring schemes will enable you to share your expertise while gaining fresh insights.

What makes RLB unique is our inclusive culture. As an independent, employee-owned business, teamwork and collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are just some of the ways we invest in employee wellbeing.
Join us and you will thrive personally as well as professionally.

Overview of role:

We’re looking for a passionate and proactive Junior Business Analyst to drive the development of digital skills and capabilities across RLB. In this role, You will be part of a team responsible for engaging with the business on behalf of the IT project team to understand their needs and translating this into requirements IT can use to develop solutions.

Role Responsibilities:
Project Initiation

• Supporting the Project Manager and the business in producing the business case, in particular ensuring benefits align to strategic and tactical business objectives.
• Supporting the Project Manager and the business in business, technical and financial feasibility assessments.

Requirements Gathering

• Working with the business to capture and document requirements (both functional and non-functional) using a range of techniques such as workshop facilitation, document analysis, sites visits, use cases, scenario modelling, task and workflow analysis.
• Ensuring requirements are concise, complete, specific, unambiguous and that they are aligned to the strategic and tactical goals of the project and the business.
• Combining all requirements into a clear, managed, prioritised backlog.
• Refining these requirements to a sufficient level of detail to allow Solution Architects and Application Developers to implement appropriate solutions.
• Providing refined requirements into project iterations in time to allow design/delivery to commence.
• Managing the scope and traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that they are understood by the project team and met by the delivered solution.

Process Modelling

• Discovering and documenting the as-is process by applying various process modelling techniques.
• Identifying high level solution options for the business and presenting these to stakeholders.
• Designing and modelling the to-be process, performing gap analysis and identifying areas for improvement.
• Working with the Data/Enterprise Architect, ensuing business processes are aligned with the business and IT architecture.
• Reviewing, and signing off solution designs, ensuring business requirements are verified, validated and delivered.

Test

• Working with the project test team to provide business input into test strategy, system test plans, system test conditions and UAT plans.
• Co-ordinating UAT with the business.
• Reviewing and signing off test scripts to ensure requirements are fully tested and met by the delivered solution.

Change Management (where required)

• Ensuring the benefits, impact and release of all changes are tracked and managed and also communicated to the relevant stakeholders.
• Ensuring end users and IT support teams are fully trained to use, support and maintain the application/solution.

Projects Support

• Providing subject matter expertise on the business unit and associated processes and systems to all relevant team members.
• Assisting the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies.
• Assisting the team in resolving any questions related to requirements or process.
• Delivering the required documentation during each stage of the project.
• Supporting the supplier/hardware/software selection process by providing input into the RFI and RFP and assisting in the assessment of responses against requirements.
• Supporting the review of contracts drawn up with any 3rd party suppliers to ensure that they accurately reflect the needs of the business.
• Supporting the Project Manager in post-implementation reviews and incorporating lessons learned into future work.
• Flexibility to support multiple projects at any one time.

Qualifications/Experience

• Degree in Business or similar qualification.
• Commercial experience (e.g., placement or apprenticeship) is a plus.
• Any experience in Construction desirable.
  
  

RLB Employee Benefits

Our culture is built around enabling you to fulfil your potential, so you can look forward to benefits that include:

Hybrid Working - Working patterns to support your work-life balance. As well as competitive maternity and paternity packages.

Well-Rewarded - A competitive salary and generous holiday entitlement. As well as the opportunity to purchase up to five extra days.

Focus On Wellbeing - We offer a number of health and wellness options, including gym membership and cycle to work schemes.

Healthcare Packages - Private healthcare insurance and medical support, including dental insurance and eyecare vouchers.

Personal Development - A continuous learning and development programme, including established APC and in-house mentoring schemes.

Additional Benefits - We offer a wide range of benefits including a season ticket loan and professional membership subscriptions.

Exceptional Exposure - You’ll have the opportunity to work on diverse projects across different sectors and regions.

Social Responsibility - We hold team and social events as well as charity fundraising and volunteering activities.

Our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Commitment

We believe in building a diverse and inclusive environment where each person can be themselves, feel valued for their contribution and be challenged and supported to reach their full potential. We have a responsibility to support the communities in which we live and work, and that our workforce should reflect these communities and our clients. Our talent strategy should enable us to overcome bias in the construction industry by recruiting, retaining, developing, and promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce. Find out more here: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - RLB | Europe

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