Business Analyst Basingstoke, England
Job description
At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.
IT at Frasers Group is delivered by an in-house team and we present an ideal opportunity for someone who is passionate about technology and wants to deliver the absolute best that they can, keeping innovation at the forefront. There is a wealth of opportunity for training and on the job learning. We have a £5,000 per head annual training budget within IT, and bonus schemes including our Frasers Champion where 8 peer nominated winners earn double their monthly salary for their performance
This opportunity is great for someone who is passionate about problem-solving along with interpreting and translating business needs into practical, operational requirements that will ultimately make a positive impact on the business. There is a wealth of opportunity for training as well as on the job learning.
This role is to work as part of a programme team . The role is the sweet spot between the Business and Technology and will involve working with the business to review business issues, define business requirements and recommend solutions, and working with IT to complete the analysis, design, testing, documentation and implementation of applications systems.
- Developing a good understanding of business systems architecture, to provide knowledge to IT management and business representatives.
- Contributing to feasibility studies, business case development, project definition, requirements definition and functional / technical specifications as required.
- Providing support to the Programme Manager in the delivery of projects from initial definition through to implementation.
- Writing user stories independently or supporting the Senior Business Analyst in user story creation in the required tool e.g. JIRA
- Ensuring comprehensive system and user acceptance test plans are written and that testing is completed according to the test plans.
- Leading and supporting User Acceptance Test cycles as required.
This role is a Hybrid role based in Basingstoke with 2-3 days in the office
- Good appreciation of the techniques and technical architecture involved in systems development
- Strong analysis and business system design skills
- Ability to understand a combination of business and technical architectures
- Strong interpersonal skills, a flexible approach to problem solving
- Understanding of the development lifecycle preferably with experience of retail systems development
- Previous experience of working within Retail or Ecommerce advantageous
- Experience of using JIRA and DevOps (desirable).
- Formal training in analysis and design methodologies (desirable).
Additional Information
An opportunity like this at Frasers is for the fearless. The potential is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:
- Think without limits and take the team with you
- Own it and back yourself
- Don't hesitate and act with purpose
- Be commercial and customer-focused.
