Business Analyst

at  Blick Rothenberg

BLICK ROTHENBERG

Blick Rothenberg are a leading tax, accountancy and business advisory firm founded on personal integrity and technical expertise. Our teams work seamlessly to provide advice throughout the life cycle of our clients. Our partner-led approach ensures that our clients receive an excellent service from a team of high-quality people who combine technical expertise with personal integrity. Our ethos is reflected in the way that we work with our clients, taking the time to understand their business and invest in the relationship to ensure that we can provide the best advice possible. We want success for our people, our clients and for our business.
In order to help preserve this winning formula, to bring it to life with our new joiners and to explain it to our clients, we have articulated our approach through the values of Collaboration, Authenticity Respect and being Dynamic. You can read more about our values here.
Blick Rothenberg is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce across all levels by building a culture that’s genuinely inclusive, a culture where everyone can fulfil their potential and can be themselves.
We seek to attract smart talented people from the widest talent pool as well as those that reflect the diversity of the communities we live and work in.
BR supports flexible working (BRighter working) which aims to allow you to balance your life with the needs of colleagues and the high expectations of our clients.
What we offer
We offer a nurturing and collaborative working culture that is caring and protecting of our people, within an environment where they can learn and flourish. In addition to a competitive remuneration package, we offer a range of flexible benefits and flexible hours of work. We have clearly defined career pathways which empower you to manage your own development. We have a number of colleague-led collaborative working groups which help shape our strategy.
The role

We are currently looking for a Business Analyst to join the Operations team. The Operations team is responsible for streamlining and improving day to day processes. The work is very broad and includes process improvement, elements of transformation, as well as Technology implementations. A short number of key responsibilities outlines below (this list is not exclusive):

• Creates, manages and develops processes and procedures that support best practice delivery and comply with industry regulations, whilst maintaining a balance against business needs, driving business process improvements, risk and cost
• Work with the business owners to create and maintain an operating plan to achieve a strategic vision that defines the people, processes, tools, and technology
• Liaise with business and our partners to elicit, analyse, translate, and document business requirements into technical requirements
• Analyse, document and test program development, logic, process flows and specifications
• Document user manuals to describe application installation and operating procedures

This role is responsible for introducing and managing business change by identifying and defining the business needs, help identify solutions, problems and risks to delivering the change successfully on a broad range of programmes and projects.
The main focus for this candidate will be on process change and improvements within Business operations with a lean towards potential automation across our technology stake so technical skills would be advantageous but not required.
Reporting to the Operations Director, the candidate will work collaboratively with other members of the Operations team, Continuous improvement team and the business to support the delivery of change.

The ideal candidate will have;

• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Great communication and influence
• Strong technical understanding across a wide portfolio, ideally accountancy and banking and finance.
• Exceptional analytical skills applied to understanding business functionality and translating them into application requirements
• Ability to create compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimations
• A solid understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies
• Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing business requirements
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot problems that may arise in work products
• In depth understanding of the various software development lifecycles (e.g. Agile, Waterfall etc)
• Automation experience is preferable but not a necessity for the role
• Technical BA mindset

A note from the Hiring Manager
“"You will be joining a forward-thinking, progressive team with a supportive and friendly atmosphere. The role provides an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and keen to make a difference person within a dynamic business."”
Azets
Blick Rothenberg are a part of Azets, an award-winning firm of Accountants and Business Advisors operating across the UK, Nordics and the USA. Azets are a family of over 6,500 employees and have seen dramatic growth in recent years which has made us the 9th largest accountancy firm in the UK. This allows Blick Rothenberg to continue to deliver the high quality, partner-led service, but with greater resource that being part of a larger business provides.
What’s in it for you?

Coming up with a strict set of rules that work for every team and individual in a business as diverse as ours isn’t possible. Instead, we have BRighter Working, a framework to find ways of working that give us individually and collectively a great experience, while continuing to provide the highest quality service to our clients when and where they need us. This is inclusive of:

• Hybrid working– where teams are working together in multiple locations i.e. a BR office, a client site, their home or somewhere else
• Synchronous/Asynchronous working– using the office or technology to work together at the same time / using technology and different ways of working to work at different times to colleagues.
• Smarter working– finding simpler, more efficient ways of delivering services to clients and working together as a BR team. These can be tech-enabled but may also be simple changes to our processes
• Flexible working– a temporary or permanent change to someone’s terms and conditions which fixes a working pattern different to the standard contract

Pension - Looking after your future self when it’s time to step back and relax.
25 days annual leave + bank holidays – Time to focus on what’s important to you.
Private Medical Insurance – Taking care of your health. One less thing to worry about.
Permanent Health Insurance - Financial protection in the event of illness or injury.
Life Assurance – 4 x times salary, our family is important to us, and so is yours.
Employee Referral Bonus – We’re always looking for talented individuals to join our family.
Employee Benefits Portal – Cashback and vouchers on everyday purchases.
Extensive Learning & Development Opportunities – Continuous development and support not only for your professional qualifications but also for your personal goals and aspirations, so we can grow together.
Opportunity to attend social events – Time to stop, pause and have fun.
Career Coaching – Better never stops. Sharing our time to make the best use of yours.
Job Reference: BR0053

• Creates, manages and develops processes and procedures that support best practice delivery and comply with industry regulations, whilst maintaining a balance against business needs, driving business process improvements, risk and cost
• Work with the business owners to create and maintain an operating plan to achieve a strategic vision that defines the people, processes, tools, and technology
• Liaise with business and our partners to elicit, analyse, translate, and document business requirements into technical requirements
• Analyse, document and test program development, logic, process flows and specifications
• Document user manuals to describe application installation and operating procedure