Senior Business Analyst (5249)

IM LLP; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

We're a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is 'we're legal and financial experts that care' - something you'll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we're more than just a law firm - we're a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life's ups and downs. Working here you'll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.

We'll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to one of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

Your role as Senior Business Analyst will be primarily a business-facing role and so both strong 'soft' and technical skills are essential, as is the ability to work in a sometimes less than structured environment with continually changing stakeholder requirements. An appreciation of continual improvement is important along with a commitment to ensuring business continuity.

What You'll Be Doing

1. Gathering data and facts to document the current state of a given business problem and support with the recommendation and prioritisation of decisions made to inform the Change Delivery Road map.
2. Taking responsibility for critically evaluating information consumed from varying sources and reconciling any conflicts.
3. Delivering quality analysis and design documentation; formulating, refining and baselining business requirements with thorough acceptance criteria to ensure the end product is fit for purpose.
4. Leading requirement workshops, eliciting, documenting and validating the requirements ensuring that all aspects of the problem domain are within scope, complete, and deliverable.
5. Proactively communicating and collaborating with stakeholders (internal and external) to analyse information needs and requirements.
6. Transposing requirements into new or existing business processes using the Business Process Mapping & Notation (BPMN).
7. Understanding and articulating the costs and benefits of a change, work with finance to gather the required insights to model the impact to the business Profit & Loss.

About You

1. Experience working within a delivery/project background with strong planning and organisation skills, including the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
2. Ideally, BCS Diploma in Business Analysis or Green Belt.
3. Ability to adapt ways of working to suit different delivery methodologies and frameworks such as Waterfall/Agile.
4. Knowledge or experience of working within the legal sector or another regulated industry.
5. Experience supporting business areas through change including frameworks and tools.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

1. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
2. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
3. Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid).
4. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We're committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It's made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

Additional Information

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group's on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group's employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre-employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.