business analyst Petersfield, England
Job description
About Us :
Vanquis Banking Group has a rich history dating back to 1880. The company was founded in Bradford by Joshua Kelley Waddilove as The Provident Clothing and Supply Company to help people access finance and goods who couldn’t from traditional lenders.
Today, Vanquis Banking Group is a FTSE All Share company listed on the London Stock Exchange with around 1.6 million customers and plays the same role in people’s lives today, as it did when it was founded.
Vanquis Banking Group is a unified group made up of two brands: Vanquis (cards and loans) and Moneybarn (vehicle finance). While they offer different products and services, they share the common purpose and customer-centric values at the heart of our group. We understand our customers are real people with varied life experiences, so everything we do from our products to our customer experience is designed with this in mind.
You and Your Team:
Our Junior Business Analysts help to plan for the future in line with Group goals. This includes undertaking analysis, documenting and managing business requirements throughout the discovery and delivery lifecycle ensuring traceability of agreed requirements through delivery of new processes and/or system solutions.
Junior Business Analysts understand the business context and business requirements in order to contribute to the delivery of key projects contributing towards the continuous improvement and development of the Business Analysis practice.
In your day-to-day role, as a Junior Business Analyst you will, with support and guidance from the Senior Business Analyst:
- Discover, analyse and understand the true business need and determine the business objective
- Establish in depth understanding of the reasons to progress a particular change, and the impacts including critical success factors
- Manage and influence key decision makers and stakeholders
- Elicit business requirements using a catalogue of business analysis tools and techniques
- Review and analyse existing business documentation, processes, tasks and workflow information
- Conduct interviews, workshops, surveys and site visits with stakeholders, projects teams and relevant business areas to elicit requirements (Business, functional and non-functional)
- Perform gap analysis using ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ process modelling to determine requirements
- Critically evaluate information gathered from different sources to reconcile any conflicts and work with Stakeholders to achieve resolution
- Identify effective business solutions and produce agreed documentation to support any recommendations
- Support development and testing, including UAT and assisting successful implementation of the change
- Contribute to and provide estimates and plans for delivery of Discovery activity within agreed scope and deliverables
- Support the development of the plan and prioritise objectives/deliverables
- Contribute to the creation of project RAID logs
- Producing documentation required to support the change at the required high standard and in line with set governance and guidance.
What you will bring to the team:
You will bring a range of skills and experience and be:
- Familiar with the elicitation and capture of requirements, including UAT, training and standard business analysis documentation e.g., Business Requirements doc
- Customer focused, able to build strong relationships within the business
- Able to interpret complex data, diagnose problems and root causes, and apply creative and innovative thinking.
- Possess strong communication skills enable you to contribute to business meeting and workshops with the ability to communicate difficult/sensitive information both verbally and in a written format.
- A strong desire to self-learn to improve own capabilities and adopt different business analysis techniques appropriate and relevant to delivery scope. Able to manage own workload and prioritise effectively
Additional Information
Why Moneybarn?
We understand that a reliable car, van, or motorbike is more than just a vehicle. We have a passion for getting our customers where they want to be. The company has won awards for its service and approach, most recently they won ‘Sub-Prime Lender of the Year’ and ‘Independent Finance Provider of the Year’ at the Motor Finance Europe Awards 2021, ‘Specialist Lender of the Year’ and ‘Vehicle Finance Provider of the Year’ at the National Credit Awards 2021, ‘Responsible Lender of the Year’ at the Credit Awards 2022 and the Feefo Gold Award 2022
We’re passionate about our colleagues and invest in professional development, offer flexible working, and provide a variety of tools to support wellbeing. Our colleague forums run regularly which allows everyone to have their say in an environment that offers no judgement. We’re also incredibly proud to have won the Company Culture Lotus Award for several years running.
Our Management Team are constantly improving the way we look after our people and have created an environment where everyone feels valued and can be themselves
On top of all this, we will give you a package including:
- Competitive salary
- Flexible/hybrid working considered
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Up to 30 days holiday in additional to bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Life assurance of 4x salary
- Private Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Colleague ‘Perks at Work’ recognition schemes
- Opportunity to grow, develop and learn
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay schemes
- 1 paid day to ‘give back’ to local communities or chosen charity
We strive to constantly improve the way we look after our people and have created an environment where everyone feels valued and can be themselves. We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We also believe this goes a long way to helping us live our purpose and defines why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.
We’re an equal opportunities employer and we want people to join us no matter how they identify, their sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.
We want to attract and retain the best people. So, we make sure that, if people need it, they’re given all the extra support and reasonable adjustments to take part in any part of our application or interview process. We’ve also got lots of colleagues who choose to work flexibly, so please feel free to talk to us about how you prefer to work at any time.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
