Senior Business Analyst with Publishing

Endeavour Recruitment Solutions; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Business Analyst to support the development of key systems, requiring strong business analysis techniques and effective stakeholder management. The role entails both internal and customer-facing tasks, with a hybrid work model requiring onsite presence in London twice a week. Ideal candidates will excel in requirement elicitation, API experience, and possess strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of and experience using business analysis techniques.
• Ability to elicit and capture requirements, including chairing requirements workshops.
• Experience of capturing workflows, both written and in BPMN/UML format.
• Writing test scripts / scenarios and managing testing.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of key systems, both internal and customer-facing.
• Liaise with Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Web teams.
• Management and support of testing, documentation, and standardisation of internal processes.

Skills

Business analysis techniques

Requirement elicitation

BPMN/UML workflow capturing

API experience

Writing test scripts

JIRA experience

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Self-motivated

Tools

SQL

Job description

Senior Business Analyst

Our client, a world-renowned company, requires a Senior Business Analyst to support the development of key systems, both internal and customer-facing. To liaise with Finance, Sales and Marketing and Web teams, and work with vendors in order to realise the development of new, business-critical systems. The role is Hybrid, and you will be required to be onsite in the London Office 2 Days a week.

Other duties include management and support of testing, documentation and implementation of lessons learned, standardisation of internal processes, advice and support implementation of best practice.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Knowledge of and experience using business analysis techniques
• Ability to elicit and capture requirements, including chairing requirements workshops
• Experience of capturing workflows, both written and in BPMN/UML format
• Experience of working with third-party APIs
• Writing test scripts / scenarios and managing testing
• JIRA experience
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Attention to detail
• Tenacity, the love of investigating data problems right to the very end
• Self-motivated, team-player

Raising awareness of business analysis

Champion the Business Analysis function and service across the company. Provide coaching and mentoring services to support understanding and the implementation of consistent approach across all projects. Lead a culture of continuous improvement of Business Analysis processes and technology usage, remaining abreast of best practice and guidance.

Desirable

• Line Management experience
• Experience of managing projects (and knowledge / experience of using project management methodology: Prince2 or PMI) a plus
• Good Knowledge of SQL
• Understanding of ETL and data modelling
• E-commerce experience
• Experience of finance fundamentals and working on finance related projects
• Publishing experience, and experience of bibliographic databases, especially Biblio3
• Experience with Royalties related systems
• Experience of complex projects involving multiple systems and interfaces between these

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