Business Analyst

Birmingham
January 20, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Business Analyst

Company: Shakespeare Martineau

Job description: Your job will focus on your ability to take a positive and proactive approach to partner with various business units to develop, deliver and support innovative solutions to the business.

Working within a diverse team to lead business change projects, you will be responsible for the delivery of applications that that give our business a unique differentiator in the market.

The Business Analyst’s remit is to take ownership and responsibility for eliciting; documenting and managing ambiguous and often contradictory business requirements; owning the business requirement management process from inception through construction, test and transition back into business.

The Business Analyst is primarily a business-facing role and so both strong technical and ‘soft’ skills are essential; as is the ability to work in a sometimes less than structured environment with continually changing stakeholder requirements.

  • Developing a strong understanding of how the business and legal teams operate to understand how things can be changed to make a positive difference
  • serving as the conduit between the business stakeholder community (internal and external), the internal or supplier led development teams
  • acting as a product owner, writing user stories, maintaining story boards to prioritise the backlog for the development teams
  • leading requirement workshops as necessary, ensuring that all aspects of the problem domain are within scope, complete, and deliverable
  • proactively communicating and collaborating with external and internal stakeholders

What you’ll need:

  • Previous experience in a business analysis / partnering role
  • Stakeholder management – demonstrable experience working with a variety of senior stakeholders
  • familiar with working in an agile development environment and developing / maintaining user stories
  • an analytical approach to problem solving, combined with a creative flair and commercial awareness
  • strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements
  • strong visual design skills used in creating information sense, easy to understand reports and dashboards

Meet the team:

Our Solutions Development team is responsible for producing the requirements, developing, delivering and supporting innovative solutions to the Business – In a nutshell – full end to end lifecycle of applications. In addition, we lead the delivery of significant business change projects where project management and business change expertise are considered critical.

Based mainly in the Birmingham office, we are a diverse team with outsourced development and testing operations in Moldova, Romania and India.

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How we work

We are committed to driving positive change in our communities, minimising our impact on the environment (we have recently achieved B-Corp status), and ensuring an inclusive, diverse and supportive culture for our people. We want you to be part of this culture.

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work. We want you to own your diary as we believe in empowering our people to work flexibly, to better manage their work-life balance and work during the hours that work for them and their customers.This role will be a hybrid of working from home with occasional travel to our central Birmingham office.

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Additional information

Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found .
Equal opportunities

Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.

Expected salary:

Location: West Midlands

Job date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 01:31:50 GMT

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