Job Title: Senior Business Analyst: Data & Analytics
Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £45,000 + depending on experience and skills

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• Excellent stakeholder management skills (internal and external), to ensure alignment and consensus across multiple work streams
• Extensive experience in collecting, documenting, and validating business requirements, through workshops and stakeholder meetings
• Helping the business with analysing business processes, identifying root causes, that improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Mentoring junior business analysts, providing guidance on techniques and best practices
• Excellent documentation production, clearly stating the different stages of projects ranging from Business Requirements, As-Is/Would-Be process flows, Use Cases, and any functional specifications
• Experience and understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience of working with Solution, Domain, Data and Enterprise Architects, hence forming a good relationship, and acting as a bridge between the business and the Architects teams, so requirements are not misunderstood

Desirable:

• Any business analysis certification or qualification
• Any previous experience working in the defence industry as a Business Analyst
• Experience working with TOGAF or ITIL practices
• Experience in BPMN methodology
• Any experience (multiple large-scale projects) working with ERP systems and understanding their complexity and dependencies

• Leading end-to-end business analysis activities for large-scale projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to identify and document business requirements
• Development and optimization of business processes and actively participating in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and daily stand-ups, ensuring timely and successful project deliveries
• Collaborating with the development team to translate business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring alignment between business needs and system functionalities
• Developing and maintaining a requirements traceability matrix (functional and non-functional), ensuring comprehensive coverage of business needs and smooth project execution
• Collaborating with key stakeholders to define and prioritize business requirements