Business Analyst - London
Business Analyst
Locations: London (must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis)Salary: Competitive salary and package (Depending on level of experience)
Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.
“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
The Role
As a Senior Business Analyst you will play an important role in bridging the gap between all business stakeholders, both internal and external, including Sales, Project Management, Technical Architecture, Development, QA Testing, and service support colleagues.Your primary responsibility will be to understand the change needs of our clients, investigate business problems and opportunities, and facilitate the delivery of appropriate changes through the application of business analysis techniques and documentation.
- Performing discoveries and are comfortable with planning, scoping, conducting, analysing and communicating findings that ground design decisions against user needs.
- An intellectually curious, creative problem solver and passionate about solving business problems by creating inclusive, accessible services for a diverse user population.
- We are very collaborative and supportive, and you enjoy working in a dynamic and creative environment. You are comfortable working with the different technical experts being part of a multidisciplinary team.
- A strong desire to co-create with users and relish participation of stakeholders and the wider team, and have experience leading workshops and broader inclusive design initiatives.
- You are great with stakeholders and are an engaging communicator, able to speak fluently to business people, designers, engineers and other stakeholders.
- You are business savvy, able to craft and translate business needs into traceable requirements and show evidence how the solutions meet the required needs with measurable value. You are comfortable working with the team reshaping user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
- Work collaboratively building and maintaining a backlog of prioritised requirements/user stories.
- Elaborate epics and user stories from high level concepts to 'playable' units of work for the Developers.
- Work closely with the Design and Research team, notably User Researchers and Service Designers, and integrate and enable user research as part of elaboration and continuous improvement.
- Assist the Delivery Manager / Scrum Master with maintenance of physical and digital Agile boards.
- Own and continuously improve the user story lifecycle, including definition of ready/done, user story kick-off and sign-off.
- Work with other Business Analysts, Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Technical Leads and QA and external stakeholders on site.
- Apply communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to ensure that the team’s plans and objectives are achieved.
Set Yourself Apart:
- 2-4 years business analysis experience.
- Knowledge of the Requirements Engineering Process and experience in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Experience of applying techniques appropriate to the business situation such as Business Process Modelling (using BPMN), Context Diagrams, Use Cases, SWOT analysis, MOST analysis and Business Activity Models to support the investigation and analysis of business situations.
- Experience of working with a range of business and technical stakeholders in an agile context.
- Experience in communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Experience working in fast-paced, multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience in a range of prioritisation techniques (RoM, t-shirt sizing, MoSCoW etc).
- Understanding and experience of user centric design experience with non-functional aspects such as security, privacy, accessibility, performance and reliability.
- Business Analysis certification is highly desirable for this role.