Business Analyst
Job Description
Job title: Business Analyst
Company: Balfour Beatty
Job description: About the role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst to join our growing team.
This role can be based from ether London, Langley or Birmingham.
What you’ll be doing
Technology has always been a big part of what we do.
On every one of our iconic projects, you’ll find innovation being put into action to incredible effect. As part of our digital transformation, were harnessing our power to innovate to lead an industry shift from paper and pen to data-driven digital processes and decision making.
Our business needs your help to articulate and prioritise the core capabilities and processes which will underpin this change. You’ll work between IT Delivery and IT Strategy teams to be the bridge to our business and clients and help ensure we meet their high expectations. You will have the flexibility to be based at any of our main office locations, and you’ll become a well-known face on our key projects including CPS M25, Lower Thames Crossing, Hinkley C, Sizewell C, and HS2 amongst many others.
This means that the opportunities to make an impact are almost endless. Your ideas could change the way our people work and how our business does things.
“Our industry is ripe for digitalisation. This is the place to be” – Jon Ozanne, Director of IT
So, join us and think bigger. Explore more. Click “I’m interested” and help change the way we think, shape the way we work, and make the most impressive impact on your career.
Who we’re looking for
- Experience in Business Analysis, with a minimum of 5-10 years directly related experience.
- Expertise in business engagement, process, and data including:
- An understanding of how to engage business stakeholders of all levels (executive committee to blue collar) using analytical techniques to provide clearly documented requirements, process and capability statements.
- The ability to work within a business operating model, and strategic roadmap/programme, to prioritise activities, facilitate workshops, and playback outcomes.
- High level data modelling and information requirements.
- Expertise in IT delivery including:
- Supporting the delivery of projects in an IT environment included Infrastructure and Software Solutions both on premise and cloud based.
- Used to delivering projects with multiple external third-party suppliers / partners.
- Experience of different delivery frameworks including Agile, Waterfall etc and when to use them.
- Experience of working within a related or transferable environment. If not IT within construction or engineering, then manufacturing, oil & gas, retail, or supply chain-side would be advantageous.
Other valuable experience includes:
- Working with more junior colleagues and taking ownership for improvement of
processes and work quality. * Working across a variety of governance structures and helping business stakeholders through delivery cycles, and activities such as supporting business stakeholders in the production of business cases.
- Having worked on or being seconded to Joint Ventures or client organisations.
Demonstrates the Balfour Beatty Behaviours:
o Energy Creates pace and momentum to deliver
o Execute Gets the job done and done well
o Edge Makes the right decisions for Balfour Beatty
o Excite Inspires others to outperform
o Empathise Listens, understands and adjusts
Communications Strong communication skills, written and verbal, at all levels of the
organisation
Leadership – Strong leadership skills not just managements skills
Influencer Ability to influences others
Effective Is able to influence outcomes positively and mitigate negatives
Calm – Keeps calm under pressure
Negotiator – Good negotiation skills with both internal business and third parties
Passionate Cares about what they are trying to achieve
Problem Solver – Good problem solver to keep projects moving
Teamwork – Demonstrates teamwork at the highest level, highly collaborative approach, among the first to volunteer to help others succeed.
Why work for us
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and
reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver
on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive,
measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full
at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability
Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to
taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence
‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
About us
Balfour Beattys Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms
teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Build to Last values
of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.
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