Business Analyst Manchester, England
Job description
Take a seat on the Xplor rocket ship and join us as a Business Analyst! Are you a team-player, motivated to make a difference, and looking for your next exciting career move? We are a global provider of gym management software, dedicated to our vision of motivating, educating and inspiring individuals to a healthier lifestyle through the use of our ‘member-centric’ fitness software, and are looking to increase our team due to our continued global expansion.
This role is directly aligned with our driving ethos: fanatically helping the fitness industry smash their goals. You will be working as part of a multi-discipline team to articulate and document business requirements that developers can take away as problems to solve. It is essential that you build and maintain a full and complete understanding of our core business systems, and employ relevant techniques to formalise concise and effective requirements and manage their end-to-end delivery.
Below are the key responsibilities for the role:
- Creating Business Cases
- Planning and monitoring the sprints
- Eliciting requirements
- Researching and analysing customer’s needs
- Working with the current BA’s and Product Managers
- Experience working on highly developed business critical systems
- Systems analysis experience, preferably with a background in computer science or a different technical subject
- Good understanding of BPMN and UML and the ability to express requirements visually in a way that’s suitable for technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent planning, organisational, and time management skills.
- Comfortable working in an agile team environment
- Good knowledge about systems development life cycle (SDLC)
- Used to a fast paced and dynamic working environment
- Strong elicitation skills. You enjoy running workshops with clients and digging deeper into the why behind requirements.
- Experience with requirement validation based on mock ups.
- Experience of working with a UX specialist and an appreciation for the role of UX in the success of a product
- Ability to balance the business perspective against the user perspective.
- Ability to keep the conversation in the problem space (and out of the solution space) long enough to create a strong business case for each high level requirement
- Ability to ruthlessly prioritise requirements based on user value and business value
- Jira/Confluence experience is preferred
- Good attention to details. You research your tasks thoroughly and ensure that the documentation leaves nothing to be misunderstood.
- Excellent communication skills. You can listen to what’s important to the business and then translate this into clear and concise documentation that developers can understand.
- Ability to work collaboratively with people based remotely and in different time zones
Additional Information
What does it mean to work for Xplor?
Our four core values guide us from how we hire and recognise our team members to how we interact with our customers day to day:
- Make life simple
- Build for people
- Move with purpose
- Create lasting communities.
If these values sound like you, and describe people you want to work with, you will thrive at Xplor. As an Xplorer, you will be part of a global network of talented colleagues who will support your success. We look for commonalities and shared passions and give people the tools they need to deliver great work and grow at speed.
Some of our perks and benefits are:
- 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
- #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, plus regular career and growth conversations with your leader, as part of Xplor GPS
- Ongoing dedication to Diversity and inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program
- Access to free mental health support
- Flexible working arrangements
Ready to apply? To start your application, please submit your resume and we will be in touch as soon as we can.
We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via [email protected].
More about us
Xplor Technologies is a global platform integrating SaaS solutions, embedded payments, and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help businesses succeed. Xplor provides enterprise-grade SaaS solutions for businesses in “everyday life” verticals: Childcare & Education; Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global cloud-based payment processing platform.
Xplor Technologies serves over 78,000 customers that processed over $36 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2022.
Good to know
To be considered for employment in the United Kingdom, you must be legally authorised to work in the UK. Xplor does not sponsor visas, either at the time of hire or at any later time.
To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/gb/careers.
We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process www.xplortechnologies.com/us/recruitment-faqs.
Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community.
We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.
