Business Analyst

at  Elsevier

Business Analyst
London – UK
About The Team:
This is an exciting opportunity working within our progressive data & analytics team, helping Elsevier’s global marketing community deliver their digital marketing programmes. We have a clear vision for enabling data self-service and collaboration, driving innovation through our modern technology infrastructure and toolbox.
About The Role:
You will work within our data & analytics engineering team, acting as a bridge into the business – working closely with a our marketing stakeholders to understand their needs, goals and objectives to support a range of projects and system development opportunities.
This is a multi-faceted role, and will require a combination of analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills to drive business success.

Key responsibilities:

• Requirements analysis and definition – work with business partners to elicit high quality requirements, capture business needs, and identify opportunities for business led delivery
• Refine the product backlog – analyse backlog items to define user stories with the relevant details that aid better delivery increments, squad effort estimation and business prioritisation
• Manage and define the data release process and lifecycle – work with developers to define release cycle process and governance, produce process documentation, and take a pro-active approach to ensure process is followed
• Create high quality documentation at pace – prototypes, high-level designs, and succinct depictions of data flows and data pipelines
• Be a trusted advisor – develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels through effective communication and efficient, quality execution on projects
• Identify solution and technical interdependencies and commonalities to enhance standards and patterns across projects/solutions

Essential Skills & Experience:

• At least 2 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
• A proven technical business analysis skillset – process mapping, requirements elicitation and workshop facilitation, including tools that facilitate the process e.g MS Office, Draw.io, Confluence
• Agile – use of Jira for requirements and delivery management as part of a Scrum team
• Data models – entity relationships, data cataloguing, data dictionary and data warehousing concepts
• A natural relationship-builder with strong interpersonal skills; advanced communication (verbal and written) and customer services skills, with an ability to engage with senior management
• Problem-solver, with experience in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively troubleshoot/diagnose complex issues, and identify risks/impacts that facilitate management decision-making
• Self-motivated and proactive, and able to work with minimal guidance

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements such as:

• Working remotely from home and at our office in a hybrid working style
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day

Working with us
We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co-workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.
Working for you

At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Us
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
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Together, we create possibilities.
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• Requirements analysis and definition – work with business partners to elicit high quality requirements, capture business needs, and identify opportunities for business led delivery
• Refine the product backlog – analyse backlog items to define user stories with the relevant details that aid better delivery increments, squad effort estimation and business prioritisation
• Manage and define the data release process and lifecycle – work with developers to define release cycle process and governance, produce process documentation, and take a pro-active approach to ensure process is followed
• Create high quality documentation at pace – prototypes, high-level designs, and succinct depictions of data flows and data pipelines
• Be a trusted advisor – develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels through effective communication and efficient, quality execution on projects
• Identify solution and technical interdependencies and commonalities to enhance standards and patterns across projects/solution