Business Analyst
Job Description
Job title: Business Analyst
Company: Pinsent Masons
Job description: Job Description:
Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Birmingham or London
About the Business:
Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.
Purpose of the role:
The Business Change team is responsible for delivery of enterprise-wide programmes and projects, mostly sponsored by the Business Operations and Finance functions. The team also works alongside the Product and Solutions Delivery team to support the creation of legal service and other technology products. The change portfolio of work is broad in range and includes business process improvements, business transformation and technology implementations, often working with a third-party supplier or solution provider. The Business Change team works closely with other teams in Technology Services, together ensuring that all aspects of complex change projects are delivered successfully.
This role is responsible for introducing and managing business change by defining the business needs and identifying solutions, impacts, problems and risks to deliver change successfully on a broad range of change programmes and projects, including business transformation, process improvement and technology design/implementation.
Experience of working with Agile methodologies will be particularly helpful to enable the business to innovate faster, create value quicker and delight customers sooner.
Reporting to a Senior Business Analyst, the candidate will work collaboratively with other members in Business Change and the wider Technology Services teams to support the delivery of effective and valuable change in the organisation.
Candidate Overview:
The ideal candidate will be a strong business analyst with a background in process improvement, who is able to work with minimal supervision and is passionate about improving business solutions and ways of working. The successful candidate will be well organised with excellent communication skills and the ability to manage and prioritise multiple responsibilities. An analytical but pragmatic approach to problem-solving is essential combined with commercial awareness to ensure that requirements are achievable and aligned with the firm’s strategy.
The role will work closely with fellow team members in the Business Change team and will also need to quickly build strong working relationships with all levels of staff outside the team, from senior project sponsors and stakeholders to delivery teams and external third parties.
We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:
- 3+ years experience working as a business analyst within a programme and project delivery environment, ideally on a mix of technology and business change projects across the full project lifecycle
- Experience of working in a programme and project delivery function in an international organisation
- Experience of working in the legal sector or professional services and an understanding of legal business processes
- Proven experience with process modelling including the use of appropriate modelling tools, techniques, and standards
- Proven experience of following business analysis best practices, policies, procedures, and processes with the ability to adapt them as appropriate to meet the specific needs of the change programme or project
Qualification:
- Educated to a degree level standard or equivalent
- Business Analysis / Agile / Process Improvement / Lean accreditation preferred
What can we offer you?
- Agile working (the opportunity to work from home, subject to commitments)
- Carers’ leave (up to five paid days’ leave towards caring responsibilities)
- 25 days’ annual leave entitlement and the opportunity to purchase or roll over 5 days.
- Contributory pension of up to 5%.
- Private healthcare policy
- Death in service cover (4 x base salary).
- Eligibility to apply for an interest free season ticket loan, an interest free gym membership loan and/or an interest free rental deposit loan.
- Cycle to work scheme.
What happens next?
Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.
We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.
Our strength lies in our differences.
We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.