Business Analyst
Bromsgrove, England, United Kingdom
We are recruiting for a Business Analyst to drive continuous improvement, create efficiency and process improvements, while delivering parallel projects, implementations, and integrations. Providing analytical support in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of complex system projects. You will be instrumental in working right from the inception of a project ensuring the business case, business requirements and the technology are then translated into Business Requirement Specifications or User Stories to support the development or modification of our internally developed business systems.
Overview of duties:
Understand business initiatives, strategic plans and platform architecture to influence project execution
Evaluate how system changes will affect other projects, workflows, data, and reporting
Work with the business, IT and implementation partners to optimize, enhance, unify across our platforms
Formalize product feature documentation there by creating EPICs, Features, and User Stories in Azure DevOps (ADO)
Ensure the as-is and to-be process flows for the team has been established.
Facilitate discussions to elicit functional and technical requirements from stakeholders
Perform backlog grooming sessions and scrum meetings
Engage with business users at different levels to understand business needs, analyze, document their requirements
Understand and explain systems features and benefits of the product line as it relates to customer needs
Work with developers to supplement requirement definition in consideration of technology constraints
Act as the subject matter expert to clarify developer inquiries during the development phase and provide on-going expertise to the business stakeholder
Person specification
Knowledge, skills and abilities:
Positive demeanour, passion, and strong work ethic with high level of integrity
The ability to work independently and within a team to achieve objectives for the project
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Possess a hybrid of technical and soft skills
Should have methodical & creative thought processes
Requires a unique combination of business acumen, technical expertise, leadership, and communications
Must be extremely organized, detail-oriented, meticulous, and responsible
Proven working experience in project management
Education / and or Experience
3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst
Experience in a software development environment
Proven experience with use case diagrams and process flow creation
Experience managing multiple projects and demands with various priorities and deadlines
Solid understanding of Scrum Agile key principles and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
Key information:
Hours: Monday – Friday, 35 Hours
Location: Bromsgrove, Hybrid
If this sounds like something you are interested in please apply, or contact Paige Hughes or Lucy Reed for further information.