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Business Analyst

Employer
Version 1
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£50,000 - £65,000 + bens
Closing date
27 Feb 2019

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Clearance Level
SC
Sector
Consultancy, Information Technology
Job Type
Permanent

Job Details

The Business Analyst role is responsible for investigating business systems, identifying areas for improvement and bridging the needs of the business with the use of IT. The job holder will be required to manage and implement process and system improvement initiatives across the business, facilitate business and system change and deliver optimum process efficiency and effectiveness.


Due to on-going expansion, we have exciting new roles for a number of Business Analysts to work as part of Version 1’s Business Applications Solutions Practice.


You must have 5+ years practical, post graduate experience working as a BA in any of a number of sectors (banking, insurance, finance, utilities, retail, public services etc.) and wish to further develop your skills and career prospects, within a rapidly expanding IT Consultancy. 


Key Responsibilities:
•    Arrange and conduct meetings, workshops and presentations for a variety of audiences, demonstrating consistently high quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills.
•    Analyse alternative solutions and make recommendations.
•    Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods and tools
•    Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes.
•    Perform root cause analysis of problems and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into solution designs and systems specifications.
•    Produce detailed Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off prior to development commencement.
•    Work closely with developers during the technical design and implementation phases to ensure common understanding, agreement and effective implementation of projects.
•    Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to IT and business staff (including senior managers) at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change.
•    Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release.
•    Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process.
•    Where necessary devise detailed cut over plans to address potential operational impacts at cutover.
 

Qualifications

Experience Required:


•    5+ years experience in a Business Analyst role
•    Strong communication (written & verbal) and interpersonal skills
•    Strong documentation skills, in particular writing detailed requirements specification documents in English         for use by development and test teams
•    Previous experience with UML and Use Case Scenarios an advantage.
•    Has worked on both large scale and smaller projects and been responsible for defining and designing               business solutions
•    Good project management skill with ability to plan and schedule own work and work towards tight                       deadlines.
•    Experience in Waterfall and/or Agile project methodology, experience in both beneficial
•    Change Management experience
•    Qualification in Business Analysis beneficial


Behavioural Competencies:


•    Customer focused
•    Ability to work effectively within a team environment
•    Honesty and Integrity
•    Proven ability to drive and manage change
•    Demonstrable ability to think “outside of the box” and innovate
•    Comfortable challenging the ideas of others

Additional Information

Simon O'Regan
Version 1 Talent Acquisition Team

We are an equal opportunities employer. Please refer to our Diversity & Inclusion statement located at: 
https://www.version1.com/careers/culture/

 

Company

Version 1 proves that IT can make a real difference to our customers’ businesses. We are trusted by global brands to deliver IT services and solutions which drive customer success. Our growing 3000+ strong team works closely with our technology partners to provide independent advice that helps our customers navigate the rapidly changing world of IT. 

Version 1 are an award-winning company who provide world class customer service; we think big and we hire great people.

Version 1 are more than just another IT services company - we are leaders in implementing and supporting Oracle, Microsoft and AWS technologies. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you; if you are driven, committed and up for a challenge, we want to meet you.

Company info
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Location
Grosvenor House
Prospect Hill
Redditch
West Midlands
B97 4DL
United Kingdom

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