Business Analyst Abbey Town, England
Job description
THE FIRM
Walkers is a leading international law and professional services firm providing legal, corporate and fiduciary services to global corporations, financial institutions, capital market participants and investment fund managers. With a global presence spanning the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, we advise on the jurisdictions of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland and Jersey.
Walkers treat everyone as the intelligent grown-ups they are. We take a grown-up approach to getting the job done – trusting and empowering our people to deliver consistently, and enabling them to succeed. Diversity is our secret weapon – it’s the sheer breadth of Walkers people that makes us who we are – gathered from across the globe and fluent in languages, jurisdictions and cultures that help us to mirror our clients and keep our own thinking in tune with the world we operate in.
The Project Management Office operates globally, led by the firm's Head of PMO in the Cayman Islands office. The team supports projects around the globe across the firm's law firm business and professional services business (registered office, corporate and fiduciary services).
THE ROLE
We are expanding our project management team and are looking for dynamic and experienced business analysts to join our growing team.
The Business Analyst is responsible for leading the business analysis activities on one or more projects. A strong analytic mind-set, a high drive to learn and the ability to thrive in a fast pace and always evolving environment are key to success in this role that comes with great opportunity for professional and personal growth. As Business Analyst, you will be part of developing the PMO and you will support and interact with a wide range of stakeholders including those at a senior level, across the firm.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support business case creation and work to create documentation required to get new projects and enhancements approved through PMO
- Manage requirements elicitation, analyze and document processes to capture business and end user needs.
- Prioritize needs within and across projects based on business impact while optimizing for tomorrow's vision
- Collaborate with key partners to ensure we are considering complex factors, align solutions with broader organization mission and forecasts
- Partner with technical lead to communicate solution trade-offs to business stakeholders
- Proactively address project challenges
- Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) including developing test plans, coordinating user participation, and follow up on bugs or issued raised to validate that the solution meets functional and non-functional requirements
- Support organizational change management
- Define & develop training materials
- Support the development of business analysis skills within the PMO, developing best practices and tools
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Essential:
- University degree within a related field, or equivalent work experience
- Relevant business analysis related work experience
- Strong user of relevant tools such as Excel, Power Point and Visio
- Highly experienced with process analysis, optimisation and automation
- Highly experienced in building business requirements, user stories
- Experienced in building business cases
Desirable:
- Legal or professional services experience
- Familiarity with MS Teams & Azure Dev Ops
- Thorough knowledge of agile/iterative delivery
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Strong change management skills and the ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to be persuasive, encouraging, and motivating.
- Strong analytic and written and oral communication skills.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Walkers global is an equal opportunity employer. Equality and diversity are key to our global identity and an integral part of our goal to continue being an employer of choice. We are committed to a work environment that supports all individuals irrespective of gender, ethnicity, nationality, race, religion, marital status, age, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. We make every effort to ensure that employment opportunities are open and accessible to all purely on the basis of personal ability.
Please note that Walkers will not accept any applications received from agencies at this time. Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.
