Business Analyst

Location
Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
Salary
£30000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted
05 Aug 2016
Closes
02 Sep 2016
Ref
AUG20160442
Contact
Vacancy Filler
Sectors
IT
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Company:

We provides online recruitment software to education and to wide variety of businesses across the country, combining all the best recruitment tools, such as posting to job boards, applicant tracking and candidate communication tools, into one simple software suite.

What makes us truly different from our competitors is the user, candidate and recruitment support we offer our clients. We reduce employers' need for recruitment agencies as well as streamlining their in-house process to save time, costs and to recruit the very best talent.

We encourage open and eager to know culture, where our developers, designers, sales force, marketer and support team are on par to share ideas and make better products and services.

Job Description:

We are looking for an ambitious Business Analyst who will be responsible to implement technology solutions in a cost-effective way by determining the requirements of a project or program, and communicating them clearly to stakeholders, facilitators and partners. The successful candidate will be working multiple projects within IT & software working across the whole business.

You have & required to:

* Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements for new and existing software development project.

* Working in a fast paced agile environment with the whole team to define and plan a testing strategy during iteration (sprint) planning, taking into account any changes in requirements through quality assurance.

* First-class communication skills, including the ability to influence customers (at different levels) and colleagues.

* Review any 3rd party supplier design and specification documents and provide feedback as required.

* Be a confident user of spreadsheets/word processing/drawing and mapping /planning software.

* To maintain and publish product roadmap to business users, customer and all other relevant stakeholders involved within the project.

* To support the end users with training and associated documentation as needed.

* Monitor progress against BA, Dev & QA milestone for each release and flag any hotspots/delay at implementation/Pipeline meeting.

* To support other colleagues in the different aspects of the project, including testing support.

* To facilitate the creation of the business case and any associated proposal documents, including the following aspects to ensure that the proposed solution will provide the business with the best value for money

We would like see:

* Knowledge of PM methodologies including: Agile/SCRUM, PRINCE2.

* Working with various requirement and development tools (e.g. Visual Studio, Bitbucket, YouTrack etc.)

* Excellent analytical and complex problem solving skills

* Nurturing and supportive leadership and management style

* Excellent written, oral and presentation skill

* Hold the ISEB Business Analyst Foundation/Practitioner stage or working towards formal ISEB diploma qualification.

We Offer

We have an entrepreneurial environment where their ideas matter, where they're rewarded with competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, company hangouts, lunch-and-learn sessions, skills development, and plenty of recognition for their great work. Other benefits includes company pension, free on site gym, parking and you will also have your own Herman Miller chair.

You will benefit from joining a company which offers you a huge potential for progression in a company that has realistic aims to be the number 1 provider in its field and at the same time opportunity to gain exposure to emerging technologies.

Pizza, Jacket Potatoes, Fish n Chips!!!!!!! Finish your week at Vacancy Fillers Friday free food, where our team comes together to talk about progress and future plans.

On top of everything we offer fun, happy and politics-free work culture built on the principles of lean and self-organisation.

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