Senior Business Analyst - Hybrid/Flexible/Leeds

Answer Digital Limited.; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible annual leave

Twice annual income tax-free bonus

Continuous training and development

Flexible Pension - 5% match

Hybrid working

Job summary

Answer Digital Limited. is seeking a business analyst to understand client problems by asking why and shaping a robust analysis approach tailored to each project. You will help drive the BA practice forward and collaborate with project teams across initiatives.

You will bring discovery excellence, strong stakeholder communication, and the ability to mentor others within a growing analytics community, supporting flexible, hybrid work arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience with industry-standard analysis techniques in business change and software development lifecycles.
• Proven discovery phase capabilities; able to shape and clarify needs, manage scope and backlogs.
• Ability to drive functional integrity and align requirements to the business case.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills for diverse stakeholder audiences.
• Experience mentoring other analysts and contributing to internal training or academy programs.

Responsibilities

• Understand client problems by asking why and defining a clear analysis approach.
• Lead initiatives to advance the Business Analysis Practice within the firm.
• Coordinate with project teams to ensure requirements are prioritized and addressed in the solution.
• Communicate complex ideas simply and tailor messages to different audiences.

Skills

Industry analysis

Discovery phase

Stakeholder communication

Presentation skills

Mentoring

Tools

Lean / Systems Thinking

JTBD / VMOST

Job description

What you’ll be doing

As a 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 annual income tax-free bonus
• 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%
• Regular tech catch ups/hack events - we also encourage external tech events!
• 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.

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