[ref. z21787924] Business Analyst
Company Outline:
Job Role: Business Analyst (12month fixed-term contract)Location: Hybrid/Birmingham
Salary: Circa £45,000 to £50,000 (DoE)
Why do we want you?
If you're someone who is skilled at evaluating change effectiveness, identifying improvements, and aligning initiatives with organisational goals, we want you on our team!
Please note: To complete your application, you will be redirected to Wilmington plc’s career site. We shortlist all applicants who meet the essential criteria, and guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet these criteria.For reasonable adjustments or to apply under our interview guarantee scheme, please contact our Talent Acquisition team via the contact details provided on our website!
Job purpose, tasks and responsibilities:
In this role, you will be the person who can bridge the gap between stakeholders and technical teams, driving the analysis, documentation, and implementation of business processes and systems. Your expertise will refine and optimise operations across different functions, ensuring new technologies deliver meaningful impact.
You will be responsible for:
- Develop detailed business process models, workflows, and use cases to capture current and future state processes.
- Translate business requirements into functional and non-functional specifications for technical teams.
- Work closely with project managers, developers, and testers to ensure alignment of project deliverables with business goals.
- Evaluate the impact of proposed changes and facilitate stakeholder decision-making processes.
- Identify gaps in existing processes and recommend improvements or solutions.
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by creating test cases and coordinating test activities with stakeholders.
- Assist in the preparation of business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and project feasibility studies.
- Provide post-implementation support to ensure successful adoption of new systems or processes.
- Keep stakeholders updated on project progress, risks, and issues through regular communication and reporting.
What’s the Best Thing About This Role?
You'll play a pivotal role in our transition to one streamlined system and consistent processes. This is your chance to make a lasting impact by driving transformation and delivering real operational efficiency.
What’s the Most Challenging Thing About This Role?
Managing change effectively and inspiring people to embrace new ways of working can be a challenge, but it's also an opportunity to drive meaningful transformation.
Essential and desirable capabilities:
We always support colleagues to develop their skills but to be successful in this job you really do need to already be able to tick most of these boxes...
To be successful in this role, you must have:
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to translate business needs into actionable requirements and model processes using tools like BPMN, Visio, or Lucidchart.
- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies and tools like JIRA, Confluence, and MS Office Suite.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
- Skilled in managing multiple priorities and aligning deliverables with business goals.
- Experience in process evaluation, identifying gaps, and recommending improvements.
- Support UAT, prepare business cases, and provide post-implementation support.
- Regularly update stakeholders on project progress, risks, and outcomes.
To be successful in this role, it would be great if you have:
- Certifications such as BCS Business Analysis Certification (Foundation, Practitioner, or Diploma), or PRINCE2
- Experience in a specific domain such as finance, training, technology, or e-commerce.
- Familiarity with data visualisation and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).
- Experience with SQL or other data analysis tools to support data-driven decision-making.
- Knowledge of change management principles and practices.
We know it’s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role’s location by the start of their employment.
Wherever you are in your career and whatever your expertise....................:You are a strategic thinker who thrives on achieving goals and developing others. You work well collaboratively and effectively utilise your strong verbal communication skills across all groups.
Before you go....:
About us
We’re Wilmington plc, a group of businesses united by governance, risk and compliance. Acting as a trusted partner, we help our customers to do the right business in the right way as they navigate the Regulatory Compliance landscape. If you’re looking for innovation, opportunity, and community, you’ll find them all and more here.
Find what you’re looking for
We are ambitious and inclusive, filled with integrity and curiosity. We are Wilmington plc. Are you? Join us and achieve more within your career with mutual respect, support and fair rewards.
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The Legal Bit!
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
- Please note that this role may remain advertised until an offer of employment has been made.
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