Senior Business Analyst

Answer Digital Limited; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible annual leave

Bonus based on company performance

Training and development

Flexible pension

Healthcare cash plan

Social events

Free parking

Cycle to work & car lease

Hybrid working

Job summary

Answer Digital Limited is seeking a senior business analyst to help clients understand the problems they are solving, asking why and defining an analysis approach tailored to needs. You will contribute to our growing Business Analysis Practice, lead discovery activities, manage requirements and backlogs, and mentor other analysts while engaging with stakeholders across multiple sectors.

We are an employee-owned company with hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support collaboration and

Qualifications

• Experience with discovery phase activities, shaping and clarifying needs to define scope.
• Ability to drive functional integrity of the overall solution and align requirements with the business case.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills for stakeholders at all levels.
• Commercial acumen to ensure value is understood and scope aligned to actions.
• Natural inquisitiveness with the ability to question others, collaborate, shape and confirm ideas and solve problems creatively.

Responsibilities

• Help clients understand the problems they are solving by asking 'why?' and defining an analysis approach.
• Lead and mentor other business analysts and contribute to our Academy.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to shape requirements and backlogs, ensuring alignment with the business case.

Job description

What you'll be doingAs a senior business analyst you will be instrumental in helping our clients understand the problem they are trying to solve. You will be asking the question "why?" to truly understand our client's problems and help define an analysis approach that gets the best results, tailoring your approach to fit the need.

At Answer you will be a key asset to our constantly growing Business Analysis Practice: Working on initiatives to push the practice forward, whilst keeping an ear to the ground and sharing developments in the external analysis environment.

What you'll bring to Answer

Utilisation and advisory experience of industry-standard analysis skills and techniques within the business change and software development life-cycles. Expertise in discovery phase activities, comfortable working with ambiguity, and the ability to shape and clarify needs in order to agree scope, manage requirements and backlogs, and structure statements of work. Ability to drive the functional integrity of the overall solution, ensuring that all key elements of the business case are prioritised and satisfied by the business requirements. Excellent interpersonal skills - articulate and engaging, and able to communicate effectively and confidently with stakeholders at all levels. Presentation capabilities which can transform complex ideas into clear narratives, tailored to your audience. Demonstrable commercial acumen, ensuring value is understood and scope and requirements are managed and align to this, when making decisions or recommending actions. A natural inquisitiveness with the ability to question others, collaborate, shape and confirm ideas and solve problems creatively. Ability to lead and mentor other business analysts, play a role in our Academy, and provide direction and guidance to stakeholders and project teams.

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we'll help you with them

Experience of delivering projects through a range of software development methodologies. Experience in practice of Lean / Systems Thinking JTBD / VMOST. Experience in a number of business sectors and industries, if you've worked in Healthcare or have a passion for Healthcare tech that would be great!

The perks of being at Answer

We're an Employee-Owned Company. After 12 months you will be part of the ownership of Answer through the Employee Ownership Trust; a major factor in driving engagement, retention and growth for our people.

• Competitive salary
• Flexible annual leave (buy/sell and carry forward)
• Twice-yearly income tax-free bonus based on company performance, as a reward for being part of our EOT journey
• Continuous training and development - if you want to learn, we’ll provide the support you need
• Flexible Pension - we match your on contributions up to 5%
• A flexible healthcare cash plan so you can fund the care you value most
• A packed social calendar including; Christmas party and Summer away days, monthly and quarterly company team socials
• Free parking at Head Offices in central Leeds, plus Cycle2Work & Green Car Lease schemes to help get you here
• The chance to give back - get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from different backgrounds into tech, as well as lots of charity and community events
• Hybrid and flexible working - you can vary your working when and where you work, to allow you to collaborate better, feed your creativity, and take the time and space to focus when you need to

Diversity and Inclusion

At Answer we proudly embrace diversity and inclusion - we want to create a safe environment for everyone to bring their true selves to work. We will do everything we can to support your application; if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process please speak to our recruitment team.

A bit more about us

Answer Digital is a highly successful digital transformation consultancy headquartered in Leeds. We're a company on a fast growth trajectory with a reputation of delivering large-scale, operational critical solutions. People are at the heart of everything we do - so much so we're owned by our people. It sets us apart from most digital businesses you'll meet and defines our culture and values. Our people are invested in everything we do, because we are invested in them.