Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Salary: up to £45,000 per annum (dependant on experience)

Hours: 35 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Location: Hybrid (Office: West Bromwich)

The West Brom Building Society is looking to recruit a Business Analyst to join our Business Analysis team. The individual will be operating within the core BA Services under general guidance and direction from the Senior Business Analyst:

Core Services:

• Requirements Definition - Elicit, analyse, validate and document requirements for business and IT change initiatives.
• Solution Verification - Evaluate the proposed solution to assess the degree of fit in which it satisfies the business needs.
• Business Change Deployment - Support the deployment of business and IT changes to ensure a smooth transition.
• Business Process Engineering - Review As-Is business processes and develop new methods to improve productivity, efficiency, and operational costs.

Key responsibilities are:

• Understand and model business processes, workflows and systems using best practice techniques.
• Work collaboratively with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders to fully capture and analyse functional and non-functional requirements and be able to re-present them back in a clear and concise manner to achieve acceptance and sign off.
• Challenge the rationale and priority of requirements to ensure they meet the actual needs of the business, both tactically and strategically.
• Define change requests for internal and external software developers.
• On larger projects, support the project initiation, business case and tender processes.
• Analyse the impact of software solutions and changes to software on the business operation.
• Support test teams where required to develop an understanding of business requirements and wider business context that they support.
• Support the coaching of Junior Business Analysts as part of the project.

The skills and experience required are:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills are required. Combined with an ability to challenge and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Previous experience as a Business Analyst is required with a proven practical experience gained within a business analysis environment, including experience of working with a range of business analysis tools and techniques.
• Ability to understand complex business processes across a wide range of business areas.
• The jobholder must have the ability to understand at a detailed level how computer systems support the business operations, and how data supports these processes and operations.
• Undertake key project activities including business requirements definition, feasibility studies, functional specifications, and Invitations to Tender processing.
• The jobholder must have experience of working with and co-ordinating 3rd party suppliers.
• A high degree of personal motivation and initiative is required.
• The job holder will be required to work as part of a team planning and managing activities within small and large projects, within which there will be a large number of timing dependencies.
• The job holder will be defining requirements for business processes and systems which shape the way our business operations will run in a number of key areas.

What’s in it for you?

• Generous annual leave starting at 25 days + 8 bank holidays, (pro rata)
• Pension scheme where we will augment your contribution by 0.6% (Up to 10.6%)
• Social club membership – dozens of discounts available for a wide variety of family days out and events
• Performance related pay scheme
• Corporate health plan with the option to include family members
• Discounted travel cards
• West Brom staff car scheme
• Life assurance provided by the Society at 4 times your salary

Why choose the West Brom?

At the West Brom we appreciate that our employees are unique individuals with differing needs depending on their specific circumstances and stages in life. We are proud of our heritage and absolutely believe that the West Brom is a great place to work.

The West Brom is a Disability Leader employer and encourages disabled applicants and applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. We will consider requests to make adjustments to our recruitment process and offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants meeting the essential criteria.

Check out our careers page to find out more about our culture, values and benefits: https://www.westbrom.co.uk/careers. If you share our values and our enthusiasm, then you will find a home at the West Brom.

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*Please note – We reserve the right to withdraw our adverts earlier than the original published expiry date, therefore if you are interested please submit your application as soon as possible.*

Head Office: 2 Providence Place West Bromwich B70 8AF. www.westbrom.co.uk The West Brom is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. Register no. 104877. ‘the West Brom’ is a trading name of West Bromwich Building Society.