
Business Analyst - IT
- Manchester
- £45,000-50,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Liaising with business stakeholders, Product Owners and the IT team to enable effective analysis of processes, procedures and business challenges.
- Owning and developing relationship with Product Owners and third parties, working together to optimise and enhance features and integrations.
- Defining and mapping processes, including functional and non-functional requirements, enabling clear understanding and effective solution design.
- Defining critical success factors including reporting and alerting requirements.
- Performing quality assurance, functional and user acceptance testing as required
- Monitoring and reporting on the 'technology experiences' within the firm, with a continual improvement mentality, applying structured techniques to investigate wants, needs, problems and opportunities.
- Redesigning business process models in order to reflect changes in working practice or deliver improvements.
- Undertaking requirements elicitation with stakeholders to identify business and user needs.
- Analysing, validating, prioritising and documenting functional and non-functional requirements for business situations, using relevant techniques.
- Identifying data requirements relating to business improvement.
- Assisting in the management and controlled change of requirements.
- Supporting the creation of data models to illustrate how data is represented within a business system.
- Identifying and analysing stakeholders impacted by a proposed change, understand their perspectives and assess how their interests are best managed.
- Assessing and documenting the drivers, costs, benefits and impacts of a proposed business change.
- Proven experience at the investigation and documentation of system requirements.
- Proven experience of product testing or user experience.
- Strong ability to create and maintain process documentation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills.
- Excellent research and analytical skills.
- Working knowledge of legal business process and procedures.
- Previous experience in Business/Systems Analysis or Quality Assurance.
- Ability to multitask effectively.
- Inquisitive nature and drive to learn and achieve.
- Knowledge of and ability to use Low Code/No Code platforms, such as the Microsoft Power Platform.
- A degree in either Computer Science, Business Studies, Business Administration or similar.
- CCBA or CBAP certification.