Business Analyst

Job title: Business Analyst (Summer Graduate)

Duration: 6-8 weeks

Role type: Full Time

Location: Onsite - Cheltenham Office

Pay: £120 - £175 per day (via Umbrella)

Start: ASAP

Role Purpose:

Provide graduate business analysis support across Group IT projects, helping teams analyse data, clarify requirements, secure stakeholder approvals and improve data quality.

Key Accountabilities:

• Conducting accurate analysis, clear requirements documentation and timely completion of assigned activities.
• Contact stakeholders across the business to progress tasks as required
• Highlight anomalies identified in the process, data sets, decision making and flag to project team
• Makes recommendations within agreed scope and escalates risks, dependencies and approvals to project leads.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with project, data and operational teams to understand objectives, scope and information needs.
• Analyse, validate and cleanse data sets; identify gaps, duplicates and quality issues.
• Elicit, document and prioritise business requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Prepare simple process maps, data summaries, issue logs and action trackers.
• Coordinate stakeholder reviews, capture feedback and track approvals/sign-offs.
• Support project meetings, status reporting and follow-up actions across multiple teams.
• Escalate risks, blockers and dependencies promptly to the relevant lead.

Measures / KPIs:

• Agreed analysis and data-cleansing tasks completed on time
• Requirements, decisions and approvals documented clearly
• Stakeholder feedback captured and actions followed through
• Risks, blockers and data-quality issues escalated promptly
• Positive feedback from peers/projects leads that work undertaken is adding value

Relevant Experience:

• Suitable for a graduate or student interested in business analysis, data, technology or project delivery
• Experience using Excel to organise, analyse or cleanse data
• Experience gathering information, summarising findings and working with others
• Exposure to projects, process improvement or stakeholder engagement desirable
• IT, manufacturing or engineering environment exposure advantageous, but not essential

Qualifications, Skills and Competencies:

• Degree or working towards a degree in Business, IT, Data, Engineering or related discipline
• Strong analytical mindset with good attention to detail and data accuracy
• Confident communicator able to ask clear questions and summarise requirements
• Good Excel skills; Power BI, SQL or data-visualisation familiarity useful
• Organised, proactive and comfortable working across several teams and priorities
• Able to document decisions, actions and approvals clearly
• Collaborative, curious and willing to learn business analysis methods