Title: Business Analyst

Location: Ideally based within commuting distance of Cardiff.

Additional: Likely UK travel once every 2 months

Hours: Monday Friday, 09:00-17:30 (with flexibility).

Report into: Programme Lead

The Business Analyst will provide analysis for technology and business led projects. The Business Analyst will be required to understand the nature of business requirements, liaise with business stakeholders, service delivery, technical leads and with external suppliers where needed.

T the Business Analyst will be working directly with Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters and outsourcers and could sometimes be working with other BAs OR could be tasked with be the sole BA. You will be near to your stakeholders, have a huge variety of projects from EV charging to heat pumps, to solar panels to smart meters to dashboard data driven projects. Working in a team of 5 there will be ample opportunities to learn, to deliver meaningful projects and progress to a Senior in time.

Key Responsibilities

• Translating business need into clearly specified functional and non-functional requirements (Epics, Features and User Stories with acceptance criteria).
• Document as-is and to-be business processes, use case diagrams and class diagrams using recognised tools.
• Support the launch of new products and services and assist in the implementation of the documented required changes.
• Create and manage appropriate requirements documentation, describing system changes required to support business change and liaise with Product Owners and Developers to ensure changes are delivered as required.
• Support testing to ensure system changes deliver expected results.
• Liaise with Scrum Team and technical architects/consultants to ensure appropriate solutions are designed to meet business requirements and to ensure issues raised during throughout the project are resolved.
• Investigate issues raised from live systems and work with business units and Scrum Teams to ensure a satisfactory resolution.
• Investigates, defines, and resolves complex issues.

Experience needed

• Demonstratable experience in a Business Analyst role.

• Experience of working in an Agile Scrum driven environment.

• Experience of specifying functional and non-functional requirements.

• Experience in delivering user stories and elicit user experience requirements in complex situations.

• Strong communication skills.

• The ability to present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• The ability to facilitate input from stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and enable effective prioritisation of requirements.

• The confidence to deal with problems and issues, manage resolutions, correct actions, as well as the collection and dissemination of relevant information.

Education/Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a Business Analyst role

• Experience with Agile Scrum methodology.

• Recognised Business Analysis qualification (or working towards).

Personal Attributes

• Appetite for continual personal improvement

• Attention to detail, organised, methodical and is quality focused

• A tenacious approach with the focus and determination to get things done effectively, looking for solutions to overcome difficulties

• High level of personal ownership and team ethos

• Self-motivated, passionate, and comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

The company

Our client is multi-billion-pound smart energy solutions provider based across the UK. In working with private and public sector partners they plan to help decarbonise the UK economy by 2050. They are driven to lead from the front in the energy market, put their staff and people first and aim to create a sustainable and low carbon environment for all.

Employment Benefits

• 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell).

• Hybrid working options.

• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption leave.

• 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.

• Medicash health plan

• Access to our Share Incentive Plan which allows you to become a shareholder in a tax-efficient way and benefit from the success of the company.

• Life Insurance (4 x annual salary).

• Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary).

• Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.

We will be reviewing applications and interviewing candidates on an ongoing basis and encourage you to submit your application early. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a successful candidate is appointed. We may close this vacancy earlier than the deadline as applications are being reviewed regularly throughout the advertised period and interviews may take place for suitable candidates

For immediate consideration please send your CV today