Business Analyst - 12 month FTC London, England
Job description
We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.
As a Business Analyst in our Commercial Technology department, you will play an integral part in the development of our buying and merchandising solutions across ASOS. You will be part of the Commercial technology team, who support the transformation of our global buying and merchandising operations. In this role, you will enable ASOS to offer the most exciting, relevant fashion to our millions of customers across the world.
The Business Analyst will work with stakeholders to identify change impacting their platform, to understand and articulate that impact and define corresponding solution requirements. Contributing to, and helping validate, solution design options will form part of their role, along with active involvement in the development and implementation of the chosen solution. They will normally take full responsibility for changes whose scope affects their platform, and support on larger cross-platform or cross-department initiatives.
You’ll be based at our amazing offices in Camden (with good flexibility to work from home) and will be part of a dedicated business analyst team led by the Lead Business Analyst for the Merchandise Management team.
What you’ll be doing:
The Business Analyst will take responsibility for:
- Requirement analysis – To document and analyse the needs of the business, underpinned by a robust understanding of the current business situation. This includes impact analysis, to ensure requirements are fully understood and account for all relevant business perspectives. They will be responsible that the solution meets the true business need and delivers quantifiable value.
- Requirements management – including requirement elicitation, documentation and validation from both solution and business perspectives. This will involve effectively managing stakeholders at various levels throughout the business.
- Backlog management – including backlog population, refinement, and prioritisation in consultation with business and technology stakeholders, especially the relevant Development team.
- Agile development practice – including ceremonies, appropriate ways of working, dedicated tools, and anything else aligned with Agile principles. The Business Analyst will be expected to champion the needs of all stakeholders throughout this development process.
- Supporting our culture by championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.
We’re looking for tenacious, talented individual, with experience of Business Analysis who wants to take the next step in their development in a high growth, fashion ecommerce business.
We are looking for demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst working with engineering teams or as part of technology transformation projects. You will have confidence in managing stakeholders at all levels, experience working within structured and Agile project environments, and comfortable interpreting large data sets.
It would be a great benefit if you also had some experience of working within Retail industry and Oracle Retail Merchandising System.
Additional Information
What’s in it for you?
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
- ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
- Employee sample sales
- Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
- Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
- Private medical care scheme
- Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
Our Commitments
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how’re we doing it?
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people, find out more here.
How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an assessment or you have requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process - just let us know by email or phone, whatever works best for you. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.
