This is an exciting time to be joining the IT team...
Overview
The Business Analyst is an active partner and a visionary that shapes the technology demand among the business communit and helps deliver the most appropriate solution.
The successful candidate will act as an intermediary between the business community and the technical community working with IT project teams and business clients to collect, clarify, and translate business requirements into documentation and conceptual design (using appropriate tools and models) from which applications and solutions are developed.
Customers are the most important part of our business, you will need the passion to deliver excellent service to embody our vision: We put our customers and their needs first, we take an honest approach to business, we listen, learn and find better ways to make a difference.
Main Accountabilities:
- Partner with business and technology partners to elicit, analyse, translate, and document business requirements into technical requirements and solution designs.
- Analyse, document and test program development, logic, process flows and specifications.
- Partner with business partners to conduct user acceptance testing.
- Working as part of a team, you will liaise with the business, project managers and other analysts to deliver efficiencies and improvements to help drive excellence within the business.
- Working closely with all areas of the business and IT .
- Models and cultivates behaviours that achieve business success, including collaboration, accountability, and ownership.
- Deliver innovating configuration and workflow solutions to the main business applications to drive efficiency and success.
- Adhere to Quality Management guidelines, as directed, in line with the framework of ISO 9001.
- Ensure own H&S, and that of colleagues by complying with both legal and policy requirements.
- Highlight to the line manager any concerns regarding conflicting duties or areas of responsibility.
Knowledge, Expertise and Qualifications:
- Strong analytical skills applied to understanding business functionality and translating them into requirements.
- Ability to create compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimations.
- Intellectual curiosity and the ability to question thought partners across functional areas.
- Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing business requirements.
- Understanding of basic system engineering, object-oriented design, information risk and security guidelines, and architecture standards
- Demonstrated experience in writing software requirements and test specifications.
- Relentless commitment to authentic relationships and continuous improvement of those relationships, at all levels both within the business and external partners.
- Experience of business analysis and business process improvement is desirable.
- Proven experience of working in a matrix management environment would be beneficial.
- Very good communications skills - both written and spoken.
- Experience and demonstrable examples of improving service to the business.
- Excellent experience of process design and improvement.
- Strong business and customer focus.
- A people-person with an affable personality.
- Good leadership skills.
- Good teamwork ethic with solid influencing skills.
- An ethos for hard work and wanting to do a good job with an intellectual curiosity.
- A well organised person with good attention to detail.
- A self-starter who is able to organise their own agenda and be able to deliver to job needs.
- A good level of numeracy.
- Adaptability, flexibility & resilience.
- Tenacious.
- Good level of standard education.
- A good understanding of how IT operates.
Reward & Benefits
- Career progression opportunities
- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Share schemes (SAYE & BAYE)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity
- HSF, subsidised health fund
- Private healthcare, Critical illness cover and Health assessments via salary sacrifice
- Life assurance
- Wellbeing support - subsidised gym membership - cycle to work scheme - health assured employee assistance scheme
- Dental insurance - subsidised
- Discounted mortgage advice, estate agency fees and home surveys
- Cycle to work scheme
- Charitable giving scheme
About us
The UK's number one residential surveying brand, e.surv Chartered Surveyors and Walker Fraser Steele have been providing property risk expertise and residential surveying services for over 35 years. We are the trusted partner for a variety of stakeholders ranging from high street mortgage lenders and building society's to national landlords and equity release brands.
Every 12 seconds, one of our 600 RICS accredited surveyors completes a property inspection from Land's End to John O'Groats and across Northern Ireland.
Apply
If you feel you match our requirements and are looking for your next career chapter, or for a confidential discussion on the full details of this role please contact Mike Brett; alternatively apply with your CV and covering letter for a quick response.
We're part of the LSL Property Services Group PLC, which includes household names Your Move and Reeds Rains as well as the mortgage network PRIMIS. LSL Property Services are dedicated to protecting your data - our Recruitment Private notice can be viewed HERE.
PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENING - All of our employees have to pass a Criminal Records Disclosure and Credit Referencing Process in order to work with our lender clients, if you are unsure on this, ask the team and we'll be happy to explain the process.