Business Analyst

Robert Half is recruiting for a Business Analyst to join a member's association for a fixed term contract.

Location: London (Hybrid)

Contract: 12 months FTC

Start Date: ASAP

Day Rate: £55, 000 per annum

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join an ambitious development programme focused on the redevelopment of a core line-of-business application.

The Role

You will quickly immerse yourself in a sophisticated business and data landscape, analysing and challenging existing systems and processes to help design and document a future-state solution.

Key responsibilities include:

• Analysing, documenting and challenging current systems and processes
• Capturing and defining as-is and to-be states, including gap analysis and roadmap development
• Understanding complex data structures and mapping existing information architecture to the new application
• Creating user personas and defining user journeys and stories
• Gathering requirements and capturing business pain points
• Building and refining product backlogs in Jira
• Working within Agile Scrum ceremonies (and deputising for the Project Manager when required)
• Supporting usability testing, QA collaboration and release cycles
• Producing and maintaining high-quality documentation in Confluence
• Championing user-centric design and innovative thinking

Essential Experience & Skills

• Proven track record delivering value on web and application development projects
• Experience working in complex, data-heavy business environments
• Strong understanding of relational databases and ability to interpret/convey data models
• Experience defining user journeys, user stories and information architecture
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
• Experience documenting workflows and business processes (e.g. Visio)
• Agile and Scrum framework experience
• Excellent facilitation skills, with the ability to run workshops and extract requirements from diverse stakeholders
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Degree-level education or equivalent

Desirable

• Experience querying transactional databases (e.g. SQL / SSMS)
• Wireframing tools such as Adobe XD or Axure
• Working knowledge of Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
• BA or Agile/Scrum certifications

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