Business Analyst West Midlands
Baxter Williams
Full Time
West Midlands
55000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
About Our Client
Our client is one of the leading players in the financial services sector with a national presence.
They are looking to recruit a Business Analyst to support their high growth and acquisition aspirations over the next 12/18 months across the UK based in the Midlands.
Role Description
Business Analysts represents the needs of customers and the business; they serve as the ‘voice of the customer’ and have a broad range of responsibilities. The Business Analyst must build and manage key relationships, synthesize information from multiple sources, maintain a focus on business strategy, and communicate effectively with a variety of audiences—all with a bias toward delivering, and learning, quickly.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Essential Experience & Skills:
Our client is one of the leading players in the financial services sector with a national presence.
They are looking to recruit a Business Analyst to support their high growth and acquisition aspirations over the next 12/18 months across the UK based in the Midlands.
Role Description
Business Analysts represents the needs of customers and the business; they serve as the ‘voice of the customer’ and have a broad range of responsibilities. The Business Analyst must build and manage key relationships, synthesize information from multiple sources, maintain a focus on business strategy, and communicate effectively with a variety of audiences—all with a bias toward delivering, and learning, quickly.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions by encompassing user experience design, operational design, and solution design.
- Communicating with stakeholders at all seniority levels to find out what they need to achieve and translate this need into business outcomes and requirements.
- Exploring how the business is currently operating via research (which could include interviewing employees and collecting quantitative data), using data modelling techniques to identify ways in which the business can operate more effectively.
- Working closely with the digital transformation team to convert business requirements into technical requirements / user stories for development sprints.
- Influencing internal and external stakeholders of the benefits of new technology or strategies.
- Ensuring that agreed changes are made – for example, by overseeing the implementation of new technology or a new approach
- Performing user acceptance testing as required.
- Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures.
- Managing competing resources and priorities.
- Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of initiatives.
Essential Experience & Skills:
- Proven experience in business analysis, with experience within Financial Services or another regulated environment desirable but not essential.
- Be keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership.
- Embrace change and continuous improvement.
- Effective communication via all channels such as face-to-face meetings, emailing, conference calls, web meetings etc.
- Problem-solving – ensure there is a shared understanding of the problem and the solutions that are available.
- Critical thinking – when considering a solution to an organisation’s needs, decide on the solution that provides the best fit for the business, whilst keeping the stakeholders’ needs in mind.
- Documentation skills – create documentation that is clear and concise to keep vital data organised and easy to find.
- Relationship-building skills – engage multiple stakeholders, project teams and the business. forging strong relationships to ensure successful completion of the project.
- Be a team player – ability to interact with different personalities on different levels of the organisation and be able to communicate both ways (speaking and listening) with the same level of interest.
- £55k p/a
- Pension
- Health benefit scheme
- CPD professional qualifications
- Flexible working
Baxter Williams
www.baxterwilliams.com
Worcester, United Kingdom
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