Business Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Clarify project problem statements and change objectives with business subject-matter experts.
• Define project scope with teams, assessing options, complexity and effort.
• Lead functional requirements documentation for allocated change projects, including complex agile changes.
• Inform realistic timescale estimates and work to achieve them.
• Help business-as-usual teams articulate requirements for smaller changes.
• Advise and challenge business change leads to redesign inefficient processes.
• Maintain current-state business understanding for impact assessments.
• Support establishment of the Business Architecture Capability.
• Maintain requirements traceability through testing, training and process change.
• Document data and process impacts and support pragmatic scoping for business value.

What you bring

• Experience in business analysis for IT-enabled change projects, including process and data analysis.
• Requirements-gathering experience with traceability through testing and training.
• Self-driven, with a can-do attitude and strong relationship-building skills.
• Confidence to constructively challenge the status quo.
• Experience in large-scale organizational change projects and ability to align objectives and requirements with solutions.
• Proficiency in agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Strategic experience with external suppliers and partners.
• Experience in complex multi-business, multi-stakeholder and multi-system environments is desirable.

Location

• The role is based at Plumpton Park in Harrogate.

Salary

• Salary is described as annual and competitive.

Benefits

• Benefits include a discretionary quarterly profit-share bonus, flexible family-friendly benefits, meals and refreshments at work, product discounts, health and wellbeing support, holiday options, pension and life assurance.
• Development options include on-the-job learning, external training programmes and apprenticeships.