Business Analyst

Business Analyst | Permanent role | £45,000 to £55,000 | Birmingham

We’re working with a commercial organisation to hire a permanent Business Analyst who will support the organisation in delivering efficiencies through data enablement and operational improvements. It's a brilliant opportunity to really shape the role and your career within this growing business – a business that is genuinely making a difference to people’s lives everyday.

You could be a Business Analyst looking for your next opportunity, a BA looking to develop and shape your role, perhaps a hybrid Business Analyst - Project Manager, or a junior Product Manager. The key for my client is your abliity to deliver core BA activities, proactively find opportunities for improvement, and to have really good communication skills.

Please note our client is not able to offer sponsorship for this role and this is an office-based role.

The Successful Candidate Will

The Business Analyst role will be crucial to the delivery key projects, including a large-scale CRM and ERP implementation, and you'll be creating dashboards to present data insights in a compelling way to support evidence-based decision making. You'll also be venturing out into the business to proactively identify improvements.

Your primary activities and responsibilities will be to analyse business processes, identify areas for improvement, and develop solutions that align with the company's strategic objectives. There will be significant stakeholder management across the organization, so communication and collaborative working are instrumental to the success of this role.

Responsibilities are likely to include:

• Capturing ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ analysis of business processes and requirements across the organisation, with a focus on IT and digital transformation.
• Effectively collaborate with stakeholders to fully understand their needs and challenges, and translate these into detailed business requirements.
• Ensure proposed technology solutions align with the business requirements, needs, and objectives.
• Develop and evaluate business cases for proposed change and improvements.
• Create and maintain appropriate documentation relating to business processes, requirements, and proposed solutions.
• Help to identify business improvement opportunities.

Our Client Is Looking For

• Well-developed core Business Analyst skills with proven BA experience within IT and digital transformation projects.
• Well-developed communication skills and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to proactively find opportunities for business improvement within an organisation.
• Strong competency in analytical skills, problem solving, and decision making.
• Experience with data analysis and visualization (such as Tableau or Power BI) and statistical packages (such as R, SPSS).
• Proven ability in creating detailed business analyses, business requirements (including documentation), business process mapping, and workflow analysis.

Next steps
If you're interested in this role please click apply or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. If this role isn't quite right but you are considering your next move within Business Analysis, please get in touch.

About Ekim Consulting

Our Business Analysis & PMO Practice helps organisations to deliver impact and outcomes  through a blend of Contingent Recruitment, Interim Management, Consulting & Advisory services. We connect our candidates with appropriate opportunities. We support our client relationships with appropriate solutions to de-risk and deliver their BA and PMO related activities.