Senior Business Analyst

DLA Piper; Loose; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

DLA Piper LLP is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to drive business change initiatives across complex, international settings. You will engage with senior stakeholders from early discovery through to successful implementation, shaping scope, drivers, objectives and high-level requirements.

You will lead detailed BA activity across medium to large initiatives, translate needs into actionable requirements, and ensure proposed solutions deliver measurable value aligned with business objectives.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Senior Business Analyst in complex organisations.
• End-to-end BA delivery across the full project lifecycle.
• Experience on medium to large scale transformation programmes.
• Excellent requirements gathering, analysis and documentation.
• Strong process analysis and mapping capability.
• Ability to engage, influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Translate complex business needs into practical solutions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in an international environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis across medium and large change initiatives from discovery to implementation.
• Investigate complex problems, identify changes across processes, people, information, tech and roles.
• Define drivers, objectives, scope and early requirements.
• Work with senior stakeholders to understand requirements and feasibility.
• Take a holistic view of challenges, ensuring dependencies and value are clear.
• Use journey mapping to understand current and future state processes.
• Assess options, risk and strategic alignment; make recommendations.
• Perform impact analysis and identify trade-offs.
• Translate needs into clear, actionable requirements for delivery teams.
• Challenge assumptions to ensure solutions address root needs.
• Support projects through full delivery lifecycle to implementation.

Skills

Senior stakeholder engagement

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Education

BCS Business Analysis qualification

Job description

The Senior Business Analyst will play a key role in delivering business change initiatives across DLA Piper, engaging from the early stages of the project lifecycle through to successful implementation. Working closely with senior business and technology stakeholders, the role will help define the drivers, objectives, scope and high level requirements for change initiatives. The Senior Business Analyst will take overall responsibility for detailed business analysis and requirements activity across medium to large initiatives, ensuring that proposed solutions are aligned to business objectives and deliver measurable value.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activities across medium and large change initiatives from initial discovery through to implementation.
• Investigate complex business problems and opportunities, identifying changes required across processes, people, information, technology, organisational structures and roles.
• Define business drivers, objectives, scope, requirements and expected benefits at the early stages of the project lifecycle.
• Work closely with senior business and IT stakeholders to understand strategic requirements and assess the feasibility of proposed solutions.
• Take a holistic view of business challenges, ensuring that objectives, requirements, dependencies and expected value are clearly understood.
• Use techniques such as Customer Experience and Journey Mapping where appropriate to understand current and future state processes.
• Assess potential business and technology change options, providing recommendations based on feasibility, value, risk and strategic alignment.
• Undertake detailed impact analysis across proposed design options, identifying dependencies, risks and trade-offs.
• Translate business needs into clear, structured and actionable requirements for delivery teams.
• Challenge assumptions and provide constructive recommendations to stakeholders to ensure solutions address underlying business needs.
• Support projects throughout the full delivery lifecycle, ensuring requirements remain aligned to agreed objectives through to implementation.

The successful candidate will have

• Significant experience working as a Senior Business Analyst within complex organisations and change environments.
• Strong experience delivering business analysis across the full project lifecycle.
• Experience working on medium to large scale transformation and business change programmes.
• Excellent requirements gathering, analysis and documentation skills.
• Strong process analysis and process mapping capability.
• Experience undertaking impact assessments, options analysis and risk evaluation.
• The ability to engage, influence and challenge senior stakeholders across both business and technology functions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify root causes rather than symptoms.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into practical solutions.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and operate effectively in a complex, international environment.

Desirable experience

• Experience working within a global professional services, legal or similarly complex organisation.
• Experience of Customer Experience, Journey Mapping and service design techniques.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Experience supporting technology enabled transformation programmes.
• Relevant Business Analysis qualifications such as BCS Business Analysis certifications or equivalent.

Personal attributes

• Confident and credible when working with senior stakeholders.
• Pragmatic and solutions focused.
• Comfortable challenging established ways of working.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Collaborative and able to build effective relationships across different teams and functions.
• Able to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely.