Business Analyst

Summary

Join Version 1, a leading technology services company, as a Business Analyst. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements. Analyze current business processes, identify inefficiencies, and recommend solutions. Develop business cases and feasibility studies, create and maintain detailed requirements documentation, and facilitate meetings to gather and validate requirements. Support project managers and development teams during implementation and testing, monitor project progress, and provide post-implementation support. This role requires strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, along with experience in business analysis and relevant tools.

Requirements

• Experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar role
• Strong understanding of business processes, systems, and data analysis
• Proficiency with business analysis and intelligence tools (e.g., Excel, SQL, Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience with project management and software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Waterfall)
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a cross-functional team
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and attention to detail skills
• Knowledge of database management
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical requirements
• Analyse current business processes and systems to identify inefficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Develop business cases and feasibility studies for proposed initiatives
• Create and maintain detailed functional and non-functional requirements documentation
• Use tools such as data modelling, process mapping, user stories and workflow analysis to inform and support decision-making
• Facilitate meetings, workshops, and presentations to gather and validate requirements along with communicating findings and recommendations
• Support project managers and development teams during solution implementation to ensure solutions meet business needs and requirements
• Provide support during the implementation and testing phases
• Monitor project progress and measure outcomes against expected business benefits
• Provide post-implementation support and assess solution effectiveness

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, or similar
• Experience with CRM, ERP, or custom software implementations
• Familiarity with tools like JIRA, Confluence, Visio

Benefits

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more
• Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes