Wholesale Business Analyst

Portsmouth Water Ltd; Havant; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water utility in Havant is seeking a Wholesale Business Analyst for their digital transformation journey. The ideal candidate will have excellent experience in business analysis and a strong understanding of the water market. Responsibilities include designing workshops, defining processes, and improving technology roadmaps. The role offers a competitive salary and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Company pension

Private medical insurance

Free parking

Health & wellbeing programme

Paid volunteer time

Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of all aspects of Business Analysis.
• Experience in a regulated utility environment preferred.
• Strong data-fluency to interpret and model data.

Responsibilities

• Designing and facilitating workshops with stakeholders.
• Defining business processes and system requirements.
• Performing data collection and analysis for business cases.

Skills

Business Process Modelling

Agile methodologies

Analytical skills

Strong written and verbal communication

Collaboration skills

Education

GCSE

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Description:

Job information Wholesale Business Analyst from the Company Portsmouth Water Ltd, located in Havant PO, United Kingdom. This latest Wholesale Business Analyst job vacancy is open to job seekers with a GCSE education.

We are looking for experienced Business Analysts to join our team at Portsmouth Water at an exciting time. We are embarking on a digital transformation journey to revolutionize the way we interact with our customers and operate our business. We have large technology transformation programs and smaller innovation projects, and we need you to play a critical role in developing new solutions to meet our business and project goals. This role will focus on ensuring the wholesale area of our business has the processes and technology required to meet industry obligations and internal efficiencies.

What will you be doing?

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and facilitating workshops and interviews with business stakeholders to understand their challenges and aspirations
• Defining the future business processes and system requirements needed by our stakeholders for success
• Performing data collection, modelling, and analysis to support the development of business cases and beyond
• Articulating process, system, and data requirements via Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Defining user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting elements of testing to ensure the expected quality standards are met
• Working closely with Project Managers, contributing to project governance including planning, status reporting, and risk & issue management
• Working closely with Product Owners to shape our technology roadmap
• Building and maintaining positive relationships with all stakeholders to support driving projects to success
• Supporting business change activities by providing content and review where appropriate
• Helping to shape and define the Business Analysis team practices and processes to continually improve our ways of working

What do you need?

Skills, Competencies & Qualifications:

• Excellent understanding of all aspects of Business Analysis with experience using techniques such as Business Process Modelling, MoSCoW, SWOT, etc.
• Experience of the water Non-Household market including MOSL, CMOS, etc. (desirable)
• Experience in a regulated utility environment and knowledge of regulation e.g. Ofwat, Consumer Council for Water, Department for Transport, Highways Authorities (desirable)
• Experience with Asset Management systems in the context of field operations (desirable)
• Experience using Agile tooling (preferably Azure DevOps or similar)
• Strong relationship building and collaboration skills across a diverse range of stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to critically evaluate problem statements
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor communication language and style based on the audience and format
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall delivery environments
• Data-fluency with the ability to interpret, analyse, evaluate, and model data across a range of sources
• To be an innovative problem solver to find new solutions to complex challenges
• The ability to self-manage and be proactive in delivering work commitments to time and quality expectations

We recognise people want to work in a variety of different ways, this means we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you may want.

We support equality, diversity, and inclusion and encourage applications from all sections of society. The Company has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work and live in the UK.

Job details: Full-time, Permanent, £46,475.00-£57,336.00 per year. Benefits include company pension, enhanced maternity leave, enhanced paternity leave, free flu jabs, free parking, health & wellbeing programme, on-site parking, paid volunteer time, private medical insurance, sick pay, and work from home.

Schedule: Monday to Friday. Work authorisation: United Kingdom (required). Work Location: In person.