Job Description
Senior Business Analyst - £55,000 - £65,000 + benefits
Location:
Hybrid - on average 2 days per week on client site in either London or Bristol area
About Us:
i3Works has a vision to be a dynamic P3M and Digital consultancy that our colleagues love working for, and our clients love working with. Our company has grown rapidly as a business, with new service lines evolving and teams that bring fresh skills, mindsets and perspectives. To be a trusted leader in the public and private sectors, loved by all colleagues and clients alike, we unite and celebrate our company-wide values, principles and culture here for you to explore.
Role:
As a Senior Business Analyst your core purpose will be to act as the bridge between the business and the technical. You will be the most senior business analyst within a delivery team, directly contributing to that teams’ goals with your analytical skillset. You will work iteratively with the business and the development team to clarify ambiguity, resolve issues and assist with additional functionality across the service development lifecycle.
You will be experienced as a BA in a variety of elicitation methods and can advise your team on the appropriate use of each method depending on the stakeholder and scenario. You will be given the opportunity to continue to grow your management capabilities as well as managing relationships with senior stakeholders as you progress to becoming a leading figure within the BA community.
As a Business Analyst you will be expected to use judgement and a high degree of creativity when faced with complex and varied issues in circumstances where guidance and precedent may not be available. You will use high levels of interpersonal skills to consult with other grades, including more senior managers, to solve issues. You will be expected to make decisions relating to the most effective business modelling required in the circumstances.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Encourage and promote Agile methodologies across functions, setting standards across the function and ensuring these standards and methodologies are followed.
- Operate as a BA either on large, complex projects, or across a number of projects simultaneously.
- Lead workshops, interviews, focus groups and other techniques to effectively understand business problems and user needs within large complex projects.
- Work with user researchers, service designers and technical architects to develop maps of relevant problem spaces.
- Translate the business problem and user needs into a set of detailed requirements for the solution that align to best practice methodology, with the appropriate use of epics, features, user stories and defined acceptance criteria.
- Manage senior stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment across business and technical stakeholders.
- Analyse large amounts of complex information and use it to produce solutions.
- Communicate effectively across senior technical and business stakeholders, ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria is aligned.
- Understand the business processes and activities that impact and that are impacted by the project whilst developing an understanding of how the project aligns with the wider strategy of the department. Additionally, advise on the appropriate selection techniques to model business processes as per the service scenario.
- Assist the Product Owner to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP).
- Advise the Product Owner in agreeing the suitable mix of epics, features & stories for each sprint, as well as actively contributing towards prioritisation activities. Additionally, be comfortable operating as a Product Owner on an interim basis where necessary
- Contribute to the wider Business Analysis Community of Practice.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
- Experience of working in a large digital organisation, or demonstrable understanding of large digital organisations operate in the context of this role.
- Previous experience of working across senior technical and business stakeholders ensuring the understanding of requirements and acceptance criteria is aligned.
- Proven track record of managing product lifecycles ensuring full alignment with wider organisation strategy.
- Experience of analysing large amounts of complex information and using it to produce solutions.
- Experience managing other BAs on a project by quality assuring the work produced and mentoring to improve outcomes.
- Facilitation skills with the ability to find common ground between the technical and non-technical.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience of problem solving and working with others to deliver at pace.
- Experience making decisions within agreed parameters.
- Good communication skills.
- Experience working with GOV.UK frameworks desirable but not essential.
- Security clearance desirable but not essential.
ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES
- Agile working - Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. Helps the team to decide the best approach.
- Able to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP), print and scope.
- Business analysis - Investigates problems and analyses options for new and existing services. Provides recommendations to solutions. Works with stakeholders to identify objectives, opportunities and potential benefits available.
- Requirements definition & management - Responsible for elicitation of requirements. Facilitates setting of business priorities for change initiatives of medium complexity. Manages and implements requests for changes to baseline requirements.
- Business improvement process - Able to analyse current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimise them. Helps to evaluate and establish requirements using relevant techniques such as gap analysis.
- Digital perspective - Has the ability to apply a digital understanding to their work. Is able to identify and implement solutions for assisted digital.
- Innovation - Has awareness of innovation and is able to apply this to own work.
PERMANENT BENEFITS
- Private Healthcare/medical cover.
- Group life insurance.
- Annual bonus scheme (performance dependent).
- 23 days holiday plus bank holidays.
(Increasing by x1 day per each calendar year with the company – rising to a maximum of 30 days + bank holidays).
- Annual leave buy/sell purchase scheme (can purchase up to 5 days per year).
- 5% company pension contribution.
- £250.00 donation towards a Grassroots Organisation or Charity.
- Mental Health and General Wellness benefit
(2 sessions per calendar month with a maximum value of £60.00 per session).(Examples: Gym session, mediation, massage/physiotherapy, life coaching etc.).
- Electric Car Leasing Salary sacrifice scheme.
- Cycle to Work Scheme (save 25-39% on a bike and accessories).
- Paid qualifications through the i3Institue for employees at all levels.
- Additional paid sick leave cover for COVID-related sickness absences.
- Staff referral bonus scheme.
Senior Business Analyst - £55,000 - £65,000 + benefits
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £55,000.00-£65,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
Supplemental pay types:
Work Location: Remote
Reference ID: i3PP-95