Business Analyst

Job Description

Business Analyst

Location - London

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.
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At Secure Transformation Services (STS) we design new services that make a lasting impact by improving users lives, making our country safer and enabling business to evolve. We are expanding the team to deliver new digital products and experiences for users of both public and private sector clients. The STS Digital Consulting practice comprises Business Analysis, Enterprise Service Design and 5 design disciplines, being User Research, Service Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems and Design Thinking.

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to become part of our team supporting both existing and new client engagements

Requirements

You will play an important role in bridging the gap between all business stakeholders, both internal and external, including Sales, Project Management, Technical Architecture, Development, QA Testing, and service support colleagues. You will take ownership to understand the change needs of our clients, investigate business problems and opportunities, and facilitate the delivery of appropriate changes through the application of business analysis techniques and documentation. For this role you are,

• Performing discoveries and are comfortable with planning, conducting, analysing and communicating findings that ground design decisions against user needs.
  
• An intellectually curious, creative problem solver and passionate about solving business problems by creating inclusive, accessible services for a diverse user population.
  
• Collaborative and supportive, and you enjoy working in a dynamic and creative environment. You are comfortable working with the different technical experts being part of a multidisciplinary team.
  
• Keen to be up-to date with AI advancements and are passionate to steer clients to take advantage of AI, and how AI can bring efficiencies to your ways of working.
  
• Co-creator with stakeholders and users. You relish participation of stakeholders and the wider team and have experience leading workshops and broader inclusive design initiatives.
  
• A great with stakeholders and are an engaging communicator, able to speak fluently to businesspeople, designers, engineers and other stakeholders.
  
• Elaborate epics and user stories from high level concepts to 'playable' units of work for the Developers.
  
• Craft and translate business needs into traceable requirements and show evidence how the solutions meet the required needs with measurable value and business priority.
  
• Comfortable working with the team reshaping user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
  
• Elaborate epics and user stories from high level concepts to 'playable' units of work for the Developers.
  
• Work closely with the Design and Research team, notably User Researchers and Service Designers, and integrate and enable user research as part of elaboration and continuous improvement
  
• Assist the / Delivery Manager / Scrum Master with maintenance of physical and digital Agile boards
  
• Can articulate the definition of ready/done, user story kick-off and sign-off and requirements for UAT
  
• Work with other Business Analysts, Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Technical Leads and QA and external stakeholders on site
  
• An advocate for best practice and promote business analysis across Secure Transformation Services
  

Qualification

Experience

• Previous business analysis experience
  
• Knowledge and application of the Requirements Engineering Process and experience in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  
• Experience of applying a variety of BA techniques appropriate to the business situation such as Business Process Modelling (using BPMN), Context Diagrams, Use Cases, SWOT analysis, MOST analysis and
  
• Business Activity Models to support the investigation and analysis of business situations.
  
• Experience of working in an agile context.
  
• Experience in a range of prioritisation techniques (RoM, t-shirt sizing, MoSCoW etc).
  
• Understanding of user centric design experience with non-functional aspects such as security, privacy, accessibility, performance and reliability.
  

Why Accenture?

At Accenture, we drive the right change in every organisation through the positive impact of technology. Leading with strategy, architecture, and design, we connect cloud, data, and cyber to engineer and deliver large-scale, complex transformations across public and private sectors. We help organisations realise the value of their business strategy, allowing them to engage in a more meaningful way with their end customers.

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Locations

London

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