Senior Business Analyst
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permanent
Liverpool, North West, United Kingdom
The Huntsman Group
15.03.2024
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Full Job Description
Our client is a leading and award-winning
international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool,
Manchester, London, Leeds, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong.
With more than 840 people including 175 partners and legal directors,
the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full
legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work,
to all forms of commercial litigation.
They act as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of
clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and
logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance,
marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking
and financial services.
Due to
the growing team we are now actively looking for a Senior Business
Analyst to join them.
Job Role - Senior
Business Analyst
Hours - 37.5 hours a
week FTE OR part time 4 days per week
As the winner of Working Families’ ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
As the winner of Working Families’ ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Department - IT
Transformation
Location - Liverpool
Benefits
We understand
that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a
comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here are some examples of what we offer:
- 25 days’ annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carry over scheme
- 2
charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible, agile
and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health
insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season
ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment
Role overview
Introduction to the role:
The Business Analysts within our team are key to the
success of our project delivery methodology. They work with
stakeholders at all levels across the business to uncover and document
detailed requirements that form the basis of a successful project.
They also ensure that any changes to requirements are captured along
the way.
The team work alongside our Testers
to ensure that requirements are fully covered and understood during
test preparation and work with the Project Managers to help manage
scope and change control. Also, capturing requirements at such a
detailed level means that our BA’s become experienced systems users
and are therefore key to supporting testing activities and our
in-house Training Team with the rollout of business change and post go
live support.
Our BA’s need to be
excellent communicators (both written and oral), persuasive,
analytical and tenacious. We’re looking for someone with experience of
working in a similar environment - used to working with Stakeholders
at all levels and comfortable leading workshops and delivering
training.
Introduction to the team:
As part of the Delivery and Change department in the
firm, you will be part of a large team of Project Managers, Business
Analysts and Testers within the PMO. Within the firm wide PMO, you
will bring to the team your experience and ability to roll up your
sleeves and assist with an exciting change within the business. The
team delivers all projects across the firm and is a well-respected
part of our business model. We have high standards for work but we
also have fun while we’re doing it and work as a team fully supporting
each other.
Key responsibilities:
- Able to demonstrate a high
level of experience of Business Analysis across multiple departments
and functions(Yellow Belt or above)
- To lead the Business
Analysis team and drive change and improvements within the Business
Analysis team
- To be the key point of contact for the
team with other teams
- To ensure a consistency of process
and documentation within the Business Analysis team
- To
provide support to the other Business Analysts in the team both on
projects and as Business Analysts
- To mentor less
experienced members of the Business Analyst team
- To
carry out the role of Business Analyst on projects covering:
- Analysis - of current processes and requirements for new
processes
- Documentation – of current processes, new
processes, agreed decisions etc
- Testing – supporting the
Test team with test preparation and the undertaking of test cases when
required
- Training & Support – assistance with training
and post go live support
- Analysis - of current processes and requirements for new
processes
What we are looking for
Essential:
- Demonstrate
knowledge and application of Lean Six Sigma practices to ensure
continuous improvement process mapping of business activities.
- LSS Data approach and high level of understanding data to
evidence areas of opportunity and measure success.
- Demonstrate a high level of experience of business analysis
practices and documentation including analysis and investigation
- Able to work on the most complex project as either the sole
Business Analyst or the lead Business Analyst
- Able to
lead a team of Business Analysts to improve project processes and
documentation as well help develop team members
- Strong
working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel
- Demonstrable
experience of requirements gathering, workshop delivery, process
mapping and gap analysis
- Able to demonstrate experience
in stakeholder management in a complex stakeholder environment
- Ability to understand and respond to user needs in a rapidly
changing business environment
- Excellent communication
skills
- Able to demonstrate tact and diplomacy when
liaising with stakeholders
- Excellent analytical and
problem-solving skills
- Able to work independently and as
part of a team
Desirable:
- Previous involvement in
complex data migrations
- Previous experience working on
upgrade projects (systems & technical infrastructure)
- Working with integrated systems
- Knowledge of
the legal sector and legal sector software systems or knowledge of
insurance sector business processes, software systems or
knowledge.
Mission –
who we are and our approach
We act as trusted
advisors to our clients, providing commercial solutions in their
specialist markets for their strategic
success.
20:20 Vision – where we want to
be
We want to grow a sustainable and
profitable business, with a positive and inspiring culture, which
places us as a top 40 law firm.
People Strategy
To create a firm we are
proud of and a culture that reflects our values to deliver our
ambitions of growth
Equality,
Diversity & Inclusion
To foster an environment
of fairness, equality and respect for all regardless of age, gender,
gender identity, professional skills or status, ethnic origin,
disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status,
nationality, religion or belief and to create an inclusive culture
that is representative of all sections of society.
Partnerships
We work with
Stonewall as part of our commitment to being an LGBT friendly
employer, to ensure all policies are gender inclusive and we are up to
date on language and terminology. We link in with local Pride events
and wear rainbow lanyards to show support to the LGBT legal community.
We work with the Social Mobility
Foundation to offer work experience placements in October each year
for students from low socio-economic backgrounds. We deliver a formal
mentoring programme with associates and trainees mentoring students
from the Social Mobility Foundation. We continually review our
recruitment processes to ensure fairness and inclusion for all roles.
We are members of Working Families
and work with them to ensure our policies and practices are family
friendly as well as commercially viable. Working Families worked with
us to develop our updated Smart Working guidelines which promotes a
healthy work life balance by encouraging all employees to have a
flexible approach to work in a way that is beneficial to them and to
their work.
Values
Trust: We understand that
trust is fundamental to how we do business, it empowers our
colleagues, builds loyalty and inspires creativity.
Respect: We will maintain the highest
standards of professionalism and integrity so that we foster a climate
of mutual trust and confidence amongst our colleagues.
Innovation: We will embrace change, utilise our
technologies and modernise our approach to business and people
management.
Collaboration: We will work together
and integrate across teams and in doing so share our expertise and
knowledge for the benefit of the firm and our clients.
Disability Support
We will make reasonable adjustments to help you perform at
your best. Please contact the Huntsman Group Recruitment Team and tell
us what adjustments you need to submit an application for a vacancy,
or if you require reasonable adjustment should you be invited to
interview.
All successful
candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening,
including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring
Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion
of all checks.
Due to the high response
levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior
to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your
application as soon as possible.
Trust - Innovation - Collaboration - Respect
Next Steps
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