Business Analyst Leeds, England
Job description
Business Analyst - Digital/Tech Consultancy
What you’ll be doing
As a business analyst you will be instrumental in helping our clients understand the problem they are trying to solve. You will be asking the question “why?” to truly understand our client’s problems and help define an analysis approach that gets the best results, tailoring playbooks to fit the need.
At Answer you will be a key asset to our constantly growing Business Analysis Practice: Working on initiatives to push the practice forward, whilst keeping an ear to the ground and sharing developments in the external analysis environment.
What you’ll bring to Answer
Utilisation and advisory experience of industry-standard analysis skills and techniques within the business change and software development life-cycles
Expertise in discovery phase activities, comfortable working with ambiguity, and the ability to shape and clarify needs in order to agree scope, manage requirements and backlogs, and structure statements of work
Ability to drive the functional integrity of the overall solution, ensuring that all key elements of the business case are prioritised and satisfied by the business requirements
Excellent interpersonal skills - articulate and engaging, and able to communicate effectively and confidently with stakeholders at all levels
Presentation capabilities which can transform complex ideas into clear narratives, tailored to your audience
Appreciation for commercial acumen, ensuring value is understood and scope and requirements are managed and align to this, when making decisions or recommending actions
A natural inquisitiveness with the ability to question others, collaborate, shape and confirm ideas and solve problems creatively
It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them:
Experience of delivering projects through a range of software development methodologies
Experience in practice of Lean / Systems Thinking JTBD / VMOST
Experience in a number of business sectors and industries
The perks of being @ Answer
We’re an Employee-Owned Company. After 12 months – through the Employee Ownership Trust you will be part of the ownership of Answer; a major factor in driving engagement, retention and growth for our people
Competitive salary
Flexible annual leave (buy/sell and carry forward)
Twice a year tax free bonus
Continuous training and development - if you want to learn, we’ll provide all the support you need
Flexible Pension - we match your on contributions up to 5%
Regular tech catch ups/hack events - we also encourage external tech events!
A packed social calendar including; Christmas party (partners invited) and Summer away days, monthly and quarterly company team socials.
Free parking at Head Offices in central Leeds, plus Cycle2Work & Green Car Lease schemes to help get you here
The chance to give back – get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from different backgrounds into tech, as well as lots of charity and community events
Hybrid and flexible working – you can vary your working when and where you work, to allow you to collaborate better, feed your creativity, and take the time and space to focus when you need to
Diversity and Inclusion
At Answer we proudly embrace diversity and inclusion - we want to create a safe environment for everyone to bring their true selves to work. We will do everything we can to support your application; if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process please speak to our recruitment team.
A bit more about us.
Answer Digital is a highly successful digital transformation consultancy headquartered in Leeds. We’re a company on a fast growth trajectory with a reputation of delivering large-scale, operational critical solutions.
People are at the heart of everything we do - so much so we’re owned by our people. It sets us apart from most digital businesses you’ll meet and defines our culture and values. Our people are invested in everything we do, because we are invested in them.
Don't believe us? Well check out our glassdoor and here what our people have to say *link to Glassdoor*
