Senior Business Analyst - Process & Data Insights

Hitachi Solutions India Pvt Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Solutions Europe is seeking a Senior Business Analyst within Consulting's Change, Adoption and Learning practice to gather, analyse, document and validate requirements for processes, systems and applications. You'll work with stakeholders to understand challenges and propose improvements to boost efficiency and performance.

You will lead workshops, create user stories, maintain documentation through Azure DevOps, and collaborate with project managers, product owners and SMEs to design

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a Business Analyst role.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder mgmt. skills.
• Proficiency in business analysis tools and documentation software.
• Understanding and experience of working on Government projects following Service Standard.
• Understanding and experience of project methodologies (Agile,Scrum) and Waterfall.
• Exhibits strong leadership abilities as role model, partner and mentor to project teams and clients.
• Results-focused with strong business acumen combined with analytical and structured thinking.
• Consulting skills, including: team facilitation, conflict management, business case development.
• Ability to work in high pressure, rapidly changing environment whilst dealing with ambiguity and diversion opinions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, document, and validate how a business or business area works, considering people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology and document the business requirements ensuring they are clear, complete and aligned with business objectives.
• Conduct interview, workshops and meetings to understand and analyse business processes, needs and pain points.
• Use various techniques such as surveys, data analysis and process modelling to identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Lead, analyse, identify, design, prioritise and implement process and business changes to improve business and operations and services.
• Create detailed business requirements, user stories, use cases and functional specifications to communicate the requirements to the development team and other stakeholders.
• Maintain clear and concise documentation through the project lifecycle and update as necessary based on changes or additional insights.
• Lead, analyse, identify, design, prioritise and implement process and business changes to improve business operations and services.
• Analyse and interpret data to extract valuable insights, identify trends and support data-driven decision making processes.
• Define success measures and metrics.
• Provide input and feedback on proposed solutions to ensure they align with business requirements and are feasible.
• Collaborate with project managers, product owners and SMEs to design effective solutions to meet business needs.
• Apply user research skills to inform decision making and apply design principles to ensure the user interface is intuitive.
• Management of requirements and user stories through project lifecycle within Azure Dev Ops, including mgmt. of backlogs.
• Assist in defining test cases and test scenarios to validate that the developed solutions meet the specified requirements.
• Support the design, execution and assessment of business process tests and usability evaluation.
• Assess the efficiency, usability and impact of business processes and end to end services.
• Support UAT and work with stakeholders to ensure the solutions meets their expectations and is ready for deployment.
• Apply agile mindset to all aspects of your work (in applicable projects) with an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery.
• Stay up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to business analysis.
• Proactively identify areas for process improvement within the organisations and propose innovative solutions.
• Analyse organisational landscape and strategy and can support future state architecture aligned to the strategy.
• Translate business drivers, goals and constraints into business objectives and define the required capabilities and operating models to meet these objectives.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder mgmt

BA tools

Govt projects

Agile/Scrum/Waterfall

Leadership

Business acumen

Consulting skills

High pressure env

Collaboration

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Hitachi Solutions Europe is seeking a Senior Business Analyst within Consulting's Change, Adoption and Learning practice to gather, analyse, document and validate requirements for processes, systems and applications. You'll work with stakeholders to understand challenges and propose improvements to boost efficiency and performance.

You will lead workshops, create user stories, maintain documentation through Azure DevOps, and collaborate with project managers, product owners and SMEs to design