Business Analyst

Agriculture & Forestry
January 14, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Business Analyst

Company: LexisNexis

Job description: About the business:

Proagrica is the trusted partner for global agriculture and animal health. Our mission is to help agricultural and animal health organizations maximize productivity through smarter connectivity and data-led insight. We provide our customers with integrated data solutions and powerful analytics that inform business decisions and drive real growth, innovation, and connectivity in the agricultural supply chain. You can learn more about Proagrica at the link below.

About our team:

Within this position, you will work with business units, supporting multiple assigned projects aimed at delivering IT solutions and services that meet company cost, quality, and strategic targets. The role will predominately focus on gathering and analysing work group data, defining current processes and requirements, researching best practices, and identifying and documenting process improvements and functional specifications.

About the role
This is an opportunity for you to have a major contributing role to a product that provides a global impact on agriculture.

You’ll be responsible for:

  • Gathering business requirements for new features on the product roadmap.
  • Liaising with subject matter experts, design, and product teams to refine these requirements.
  • Develop systems specifications, process flow and conversion strategies.
  • Follow established business processes, protocols and quality standards in the development and deployment of complex solutions.
  • Producing documentation and diagrams for work items to facilitate the knowledge transfer to the development and testing teams.
  • Writing detailed user stories to present to the squad during story pointing workshops.
  • Work to maintain the quality of the product throughout the development process.
  • Conduct and expedite user acceptance testing to ensure that the functionality being released upholds both development and end-user standards.
  • Create technical and functional user documentation.

Qualifications

  • An ability to maintain automated test scripts.
  • Proficient analytical skills to interpret and translate the needs of customers and stakeholders into operational processes.
  • Exception organisational and time management skills to balance multiple workstreams.
  • Ability to facilitate communication and collaboration between the development team, stakeholders, and customers.
  • Proficiency in documenting As-Is and To-Be processes.
  • A broad understanding of software development methodologies and the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
  • Previous experience of working in an agile environment and using a recognized development methodology e.g., Agile, SCRUM, KANBAN.
  • Competency with Microsoft Office products.
  • Written communication skills including process documentation.
  • Knowledge and prior use of UML modelling language.
  • Broad technical understanding across various methodologies, platforms, tools, and languages.
  • BS/BA degree in relevant discipline or equivalent experience required, ISEB qualified Business Analyst preferred.
  • Scrum master experience is desirable.

Women in technology:

LNRS is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 24% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:

  • Mentoring scheme for women in technology
  • Women’s network forum
  • Regularly run events for schools girl about careers in technology to inspire the next generation of girls in tech.

Culture and benefits:

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At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: .

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Expected salary:

Location: United Kingdom

Job date: Sat, 06 Jan 2024 08:46:37 GMT

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