IT Business Analyst

at  AVEVA

AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software. Our cutting-edge solutions are used by thousands of enterprises to deliver the essentials of life – such as energy, infrastructure, chemicals and minerals – safely, efficiently and more sustainably.
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Position: IT Business Analyst
Location: Cambridge or London (Hybrid, 3 days office)
The Job
As a Business Analyst you will be an inquisitive and strategic thinker who seeks to not only understand the root cause of a business or end user problem/opportunity, but to understand the drivers, asking the right questions at the right time. You will act as a critical friend, collaborating with and enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions based on sound analysis. You will translate the business’s needs to provide the best value outcome for AVEVA, ensuring alignment to strategic and tactical aims.
You will work within the Business Analysis Service Framework to deliver a range of services that support the business in IT enabled change. You will also be encouraged to help support the continual progression of the Business Analysis Service, acting as a champion for it, fostering new relationships to build and grow its use and suggesting new ways of working to ensure it remains aligned to the needs of the business.

Responsibilities:

• Undertake analysis to understand how a business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology
• Identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and business change
• Ensure new solutions and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals
• Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications
• Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures
• Take ownership for improving your own knowledge of business analysis, methods and tools and play an active role within the BA practice and wider community in sharing knowledge and supporting other members.

Essential

• Business analysis. You can apply structured approaches to identify, investigate, analyse and communicate complex business problems and opportunities, within a defined project. You can analyse business goals, objectives, functions, and processes, using relevant information and data to support the definition of requirements. You can conduct options analysis, assess feasibility and operational impact, quantify potential business benefits, and contribute to business case development. You can help to ensure proposed solutions meet business and user needs. You can work with limited direction to complete tasks and defined outputs linked to the project.
• Requirement’s definition and management. You can identify, analyse, challenge, and validate business and user requirements. You can work under limited supervision to co-ordinate and review the prioritisation of requirements. You can use appropriate requirements management life cycle methods to complete tasks and outputs related to the project.
• Stakeholder relationship management. You can identify, analyse, manage, and monitor relationships with and between internal and external stakeholders. You can work under limited supervision to communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts while focusing on user and business needs.
• Business modelling. You can model various elements of the business with limited direction. You can understand the effect of potential changes and how business processes, systems, structures, data and roles and responsibilities interact with one another.
• Business process improvement. You can work with limited direction to identify opportunities to improve business performance within a defined project. You can lead the analysis, identification, design, prioritisation and implementation of process and business changes to improve business operations and services. You can support the implementation of proposed business improvements.
• Experience of collaborative working. You can work effectively and collaboratively alongside colleagues in a multidisciplinary team. You are able to empathise and be considerate of colleagues’ needs while at the same time understand and be clear on your own needs to complete a task.

Skills and qualification (desirable):

• Experience of working within a multinational organisation/project team
• BCS Diploma in Business Analysis
• IIBA Certified Business Analysis Practitioner
• PMI Professional in Business Analysis

AVEVA requires all successful applicants to undergo and pass a comprehensive background check before they start employment. Background checks will be conducted in accordance with local laws and may, subject to those laws, include proof of educational attainment, employment history verification, proof of work authorization, criminal records, identity verification, credit check. Certain positions dealing with sensitive and/or third party personal data may involve additional background check criteria.
AVEVA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to being an exemplary employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. We value diversity and the expertise that people from different backgrounds bring to our business.
Come and join AVEVA to create the transformative technology that enables our customers to engineer a better world

• Undertake analysis to understand how a business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology
• Identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and business change
• Ensure new solutions and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals
• Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications
• Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures
• Take ownership for improving your own knowledge of business analysis, methods and tools and play an active role within the BA practice and wider community in sharing knowledge and supporting other members