Senior Business Analyst

Osborne Clarke; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international legal practice is looking for a Senior Business Analyst in Bristol. This role involves facilitating business analysis activities to support impactful change, collaborating effectively with senior stakeholders, and mentoring junior staff. Competitive salary and generous benefits offered, as well as a hybrid work model.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Generous benefits

Support for health and wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experience of the end-to-end project life cycle.
• Track record in delivering business outcomes via innovative solutions.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and drive clarity.

Responsibilities

• Understand and document project requests and business needs.
• Provide data-driven recommendations.
• Support the creation of project documentation and user acceptance testing.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Problem-solving

Business analysis tools

Collaboration

Verbal and written communication

Customer service focus

Education

Recognised Business Analysis qualification

Tools

Microsoft Products

Job description

Role profile

Osborne Clarke are looking to add to their Change & Transformation team with an exciting new Senior Business Analyst opportunity in our Bristol office. Osborne Clarke have a clear understanding of the value Business Analysis brings to the business and how they can support the successful delivery of change.

This role will involve business analysis activities from supporting strategic design to delivering against complex projects and programmes, ensuring our clients receive consistently excellent services and promoting a culture of mutual understanding through effective communication across the OC business as a whole.

This is a permanent position offering hybrid working.

The role

The Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for delivering the following activities:

• Understanding and documenting the context of project requests, the needs of the business, and the benefits targeted, against the strategic roadmap and relevant KPIs.
• Providing data-driven recommendations to support decision-making processes.
• Supporting the sponsor in their development of a business case, ensuring costs and benefits are clearly defined.
• Supporting the creation of project, business, and user documentation to enable the delivery of the associated business objectives and outcomes.
• Capturing the 'as is' and 'to be' states using a variety of tools and techniques.
• Eliciting and documenting business requirements and ensuring they are prioritised by the business and signed off.
• Acting as the voice of the business, being the liaison point between the business and supplier teams.
• Translating business requirements into detailed functional and non-functional requirements.
• Supporting the vendor selection process, including inputting into RFPs and assessing the outcome of tenders against requirements.
• Supporting User Acceptance Testing and supporting the creation of standard operating procedures to ensure they meet the business need.
• Helping to develop and mature the BA Practice at Osborne Clarke.
• Working hand in hand with the other Change & Transformation teams (PMO, Project Management and Change Management) to successfully deliver change to the business
• Supporting and mentoring more junior members of the BA team.

We are looking for

• Proven success of being comfortable working with senior stakeholders and aligning strategic design with problem analysis.
• A track record in solving problems and delivering business outcomes, including providing innovative solutions to complex business opportunities underpinned by business analysis activities.
• Experience of the end-to-end project life cycle and associated BA tools and skillsets (from requirements gathering, through to solution development, process/workflow mapping through to embedding of associated benefits).
• A highly collaborative and effective team player with experience of working in multi-disciplinary project teams.
• Experience using different tools and applications for analysing and capturing requirements and visual representation of process maps, particularly with Microsoft Products
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt your style to a range of activities and audiences, including senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work across the more complex projects and programmes within our portfolio, and to be able to handle ambiguity and drive clarity.
• A focus on providing excellent customer service to our internal clients as part of our high performing team.
• A recognised Business Analysis qualification

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it\'s fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

*Services in India are provided by a relationship firm