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A leading global law firm with a rich history are now looking for a Business Analyst to join on a 12-month fixed term contract basis.

The role:

• Leading requirements analysis, definition, validation and verification, ensuring that requirement statements or user stories are complete, traceable and unambiguous; as well as proportionate and truly useful.
• Creating process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction where required for delivery.
• Collaborating with project sponsors to determine project scope / vision and help inform project artefacts relating to these such as a business case
• Eliciting requirements using interviews, workshops, use cases, scenarios and other techniques; or develop requirements from UX designs.
• Managing, prioritising and enhancing user requirements or product backlogs as appropriate, using change control processes where necessary
• Preparing clear and concise documentation, and supporting materials in relation to specific projects

Skills and experience:

• Experience as a Business Analyst with a proven track record of successful project delivery in a professional services company, ideally a law firm.
• Experience of gathering and managing technical details and requirements or user stories and acceptance criteria
• Able to learn, understand and challenge current business processes and help to model new processes/ procedures
• Experience in a business analyst role on customer-facing technology projects with an application development or software product development scope within both agile and waterfall methodologies
• Working with cloud based technologies, preferably MS Azure
• Excellent analytical skills
• Able to listen to and understand customer requirements
• Able to operate within a project brief, reporting to the Project Manager as required
• Good knowledge of testing approaches/methods including automation and deployment pipelines.
• Awareness/exposure to different software development life cycles and methods
• Producing high level solutions/approaches, requiring systems analysis and design skills
• Assisting with research and evaluation of software solutions from 3rd party suppliers and production of necessary deliverables such as tender documents, liaising with suppliers
• Able to manage small projects from inception to delivery

Desirable:

• 
  A good technical background
• Experience of working on digital projects
• Working knowledge of different analysis techniques/methods, including requirements definition and specification, ERD/DFDs etc.
• Familiarity with MS DevOps
• Strong requirements elicitation skills
• Familiar with business application components and application migration
• Working within a structured project framework but also able to adapt and change and self-start in less certain environments
• Knowledge of legal back office systems such as Document Management, HR and Practice Management systems
• Familiar with MS Office for documentation
• Knowledge of Web technologies and n-tier architecture
• Knowledge of client-server architecture
• RDBMS understanding (MS SQL Server)
• Familiar with Windows 10
• Familiar with ITIL, Prince 2, Agile