Senior Business Analyst

Summary

Join Version 1, a leading technology services company, and contribute to the success of global brands. As a Business Analyst, you will develop business cases, analyze requirements, and collaborate with business users to translate needs into solution designs. You will conduct process mapping, produce comprehensive documentation, and define benefits associated with system changes. Your responsibilities include overseeing a portfolio of digital products, preparing presentations, and managing stakeholders across all levels. This role requires a minimum of 5 years of experience in Business Analysis within the last 7 years, experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies, and excellent communication skills. Version 1 offers a comprehensive benefits package, including profit sharing, career progression opportunities, flexible/remote working, financial wellbeing initiatives, employee wellbeing schemes, generous leave policies, educational assistance, and reward schemes.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ practical experience, gained within the last 7 years in Business Analysis, with a track record in large scale change and/or technology programmes/projects
• Able to produce high quality business cases, business process maps and other functional and business-facing documentation
• Excellent communicator with experience of managing relationships with a range of stakeholders, including those at a senior level
• Skilled communication bridge between IT and the business stakeholders, representing business challenges and requirements clearly to technical resources and relevant points of technical designs and constraints to business resources
• Takes responsibility and accountability for own workload and ensures this is executed in time
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall/traditional methodologies
• Pragmatic and results orientated

Responsibilities

• Develop business cases ensuring strategic alignment and analysis of requirements including delivery options, potential benefits, associated business risks and economic calculations
• Conduct thorough analysis of problems, collaborating closely with business users to identify their needs and translate into solution designs and systems specifications
• Conduct ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ process mapping
• Produce comprehensive Business Requirement Documents including product justifications
• Define benefits associated with changes to business systems and associated IT requirements and ensure that these are baselined and tracked
• End to end product involvement from leading on workshops through to design and delivery phases
• Oversee a portfolio of digital products ensuring investment aligns with priorities and strategic objectives
• Prepare and deliver presentations to stakeholders across all levels
• Stakeholder management across all levels from c-suite through to on-the-ground developers both internally and with clients

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