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We’re growing our team and looking to recruit for an experienced Business Analyst, reporting directly into the Small Change Project Manager within our IT department. We’re looking for an experienced BA to bridge the gap between the business, project and development teams by using tools and techniques to elicit requirements, ensure effective prioritisation, run workshops and produce the appropriate documentation.

You will collaborate with the wider Card Factory stakeholders and wider BA community to ensure dependencies are identified and communicated as well as working directly with development teams to represent requirements at that level.

We offer smart hybrid working, allowing the successful candidate the opportunity to work from home, but also in our Wakefield office, great links to the MI and free onsite parking.

• Understand small change business needs and support the development of business requirements and process change
• Complete the analysis, mapping and communication of current and future state small change business processes
• Create and maintain user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to capture detailed non-functional requirements for small change projects
• Analyse and document new or changes to functionality for small change projects, challenging stakeholder’s requirements to understand the full impact and value of change to ensure correct solution design and estimation
• Work with development and QA teams to define testing scenarios, use case and support manuals for small change projects
• Communicate with other teams and stakeholders to identify, monitor and resolve dependencies for small change projects
• Facilitate workshops using a variety of business analysis standard tools and techniques for small change projects
• Contribute to the BA community by sharing knowledge and experiences for small change projects

• Must have previous experience of working as a Business Analyst
• Demonstrable knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall
• Experience in leading and influencing stakeholders to successful outcomes for small change projects
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail

Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland. In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer. This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey.

cardfactory have just have been ranked as the UK's 3rd Best Big Company to Work For by Best Companies in their Q1 league tables, and placed 1st as the Best Big Retail Company to Work For in the sector league table.

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Benefits

• Pension
• 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
• Save As You Earn scheme
• Financial Wellbeing Support
  • Financial Education Tools
  • Salary Advance
• Seasonal incentive schemes
• Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
• Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
• Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.

For any questions email: [email protected] (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.

No agencies, please.