Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Agency Reference Number: 7205510

Venn Group is currently working with a well-established leading academic Publisher who are looking for a Business Analyst to join their team.

Rate: £480 per day – OUTSIDE IR35

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 months

Job Responsibilities:

• Strategically shape and lead analysis as part of multi-disciplinary teams operating within programme, portfolio or scaled agile methodologies

• Design and influence improvements to business structures, processes and information flows supported appropriately with automation and technology

• Use effective techniques to define and manage requirements, prioritisation, and scope with others in a range of different types of change methodologies and situations

• Use a persona-driven approach to support the definition of customer journeys across various channels and writing corresponding user stories

• Define and enhance standards and apply appropriate techniques to elicit and document requirements

• Manage traceability of, change to and the refinement of requirements, identifying issues and omissions and managing escalations with senior stakeholders

• Lead work that delivers effectively and efficiently in fast paced environments, in agile and waterfall project methodologies

• Select the appropriate business modelling techniques that are most effective to help people understand the situations, problems, and solutions

The successful candidate will have:

• Extensive experience of working in different project methodologies and awareness of how to adapt their practice

• Extensive Business Analysis or relevant knowledge gained from recognised bodies (BCS, BABOK, Agile PO)

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, including the ability to create clear observations, analysis and conclusions based on customer interviews, published requirements and data

• Events or Media industry experience with knowledge of products, platforms and emerging technologies preferred

• Digital transformation experience in a large organisation

• Experience with integrations projects involving CMS, CRM, Datawarehouse, marketing automation

• Business process mapping up to level

• Collaborative and remote tooling (Teams, Slack)

• Merger and acquisition projects involving integrations of people, processes and technologies

• Working in a scrum environment

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.