business analyst

business analyst Remote

NEC Corporation
Full Time Remote 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

Company Description
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Working with us, you’ll be helping our 3,000+ employees push the boundaries of what’s possible and support amazing public services.
We work with governments, hospitals, police forces, housing providers, local authorities and more. We help them pay financial support faster, speed up treatments for patients and respond to emergencies in the right way. The more we do, the more our customers can do for others. And together, we make a world of difference.
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Discover more at www.necsws.com
Job Description
This role is within the NEC Environment and Planning business and will be a member [LH1] of an established team of Business Analysts working on products used within Local Government. The team sits within the Product Management group but works closely with other disciplines using a mature scrum agile methodology to deliver great products in a busy and successful team.

Summary of Responsibilities
As a Business Analyst you will be expected to undertake the following principal [LH2] responsibilities:
Capturing and analysing logical system requirements from
High level requirements provided by the Product Manager
User research results
Legislative documentation
System defect reports
Creating all User Stories, to accurately reflect the stated requirements from the Product Backlog.
Understanding the business context for the requirements and documenting where required.
Identifying gaps and amendments for the Backlog.
Defining the features to be developed and recording them accurately on the Backlog.
Responding quickly to queries from the Development and QA teams regarding product functionality throughout the lifecycle of the development process.
Prioritising features/outcomes according to customer needs and product manager direction
Assisting with the evaluation of the output from the Sprints in ‘show and tell’ sessions
Common with all NEC roles, the Business Analyst is also responsible for identifying potential common functionality, to promote software component reuse
Ensuring consistency, improvement of user experience and accessibility of the solution
The role is home-based, but travel may be required throughout the UK to best suit the needs and demands of the product(s).

Customer-Facing Role
The Business Analyst may be required to assist the Product Manager with customer or stakeholder meetings:
Liaising with the customer during Development phases to ensure that the Product Manager can act as an informed customer proxy and to ensure that customer is comfortable with any key design decisions.
Liaising with agencies and government departments to understand detailed requirements
Meetings can take place at any location throughout the United Kingdom, typically at a customer, stakeholder or NEC [LH3] office location.

Qualifications
Business Skills

Essential:
Previous Business Analysis experience
Rigorous analysis skills
Effective requirement capture
Experience of turning high level system requirements into detailed user stories
A knowledge of the end-to-end software development lifecycle
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - capable of exploring and articulating complex concepts across the various stakeholders of the project at all levels.
Ability to learn new business areas to a detailed level - acting as an informed source of information.

Desirable:
Knowledge of Environmental Health, Licensing, Private Sector Housing and/or Trading Standards processes within Local Authorities in the UK
An awareness of systems and solutions used by public service organisations eg. local authorities, health, police etc.
Use of Azure DevOps (formerly known as Team Foundation Server [LH4] )

Personal Skills:
Self - reliant but with strong team player capabilities
Work with minimal direction
Excellent written skills
Flexible and adaptable
Effective relationship builder
Clear and proactive communicator, promoting a shared understanding
Organise time effectively

Additional Information
We are proud of the benefits we offer employees of NEC Software Solutions
Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/ sell
4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
A fantastic selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
We are an employer who cares, we have a invaluable employee assistance programme which can help in every area of your life
All colleagues get free access to LinkedIn Learning. Over 15000 courses covering a huge breadth of subjects. Learn about what you like, when you like, how you like.
Other Information
Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel within the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.
All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting and reference checks. A Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check will be required and dependent on the role further checks may be required.
NEC is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities.

business analyst
NEC Corporation

www.nec.com
Tokyo, Japan
Nobuhiro Endo
Unknown / Non-Applicable
Unknown
Company - Public
Enterprise Software & Network Solutions
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