Business Analyst

Role: Business Analyst

Team/Programme: News Broadcasting

Department: Technology

Location: Hybrid

We are News Broadcasting : Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national and local radio and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. News Broadcasting is the UK's most digital broadcaster with 86% combined digital listening share, complementing its market-leading scale on visual platforms. The group contains the national brands of talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio, Talk and Wireless Ireland-produced radio stations, including FM104, Cork’s 96fm and Dublin’s Q102.

Your Role: We’re looking for a Business Analyst to join our News Broadcasting Digital Team. You’ll work across the News Broadcasting Audio Team. The Audio team looks after our universal web player housing Virgin Radio, Times Radio, TalkSPORT and Talk radio stations. We are currently in the process of extending the web player to support all of our Irish stations, who come up under Onic as a single brand. Additionally the audio squad includes a team of backend engineers who look after the customer data, collecting user’s preferences and permissions. It is essential to be able to demonstrate experience working with backend systems such as REST APIs and GraphQL

Day to day

• You will work within an Agile product team that also comprises the following disciplines - engineering (which also includes QA), product management, project management, UX&D.

• You will engage in business analysis activities that ensure that we continue to develop and improve our widely recognised media products.

• You will work in partnership with the Product Manager to ensure backlogs are high quality in terms of content, visibility, and understanding of business value.

• Analyze, document, and improve existing backend workflows, APIs, data structures, and integrations. You will be expected to perform in depth analysis on prioritized initiatives in a way that they can eventually be broken down into clearly understandable epics and user stories that can be prioritized according to their clearly outlined business value.

• Partner with developers to ensure system solutions align with long-term business and technical goals.

• Collaborate with technical teams to gather and translate business requirements into backend system designs and technical specifications.

• Part of your role undoubtedly will include coaching the dev teams on how to structure and format good requirements and stories further ensuring the team is self-sufficient and you are not acting as a translator/scribe.

• When stories are delivered you should ensure there is feedback to the team and the business stakeholders on the value that was created.

• You should also expect to actively research best practice and strategic direction within the industry and find ways to share this back into the team. Part of your role will also include contributing and maintaining the quality of BA standards and practices

What we’re looking for from you:

Requirements elicitation and analysis

• Ability to elicit requirements through various techniques - workshops, interviews, shadowing, etc. - outlining business value, cost to deliver and time constraints

• A great communicator who can share risks, assumptions and constraints effectively with dev teams and business stakeholders alike

• Experience facilitating conversations outlining potential solutions and prioritising options based on business value or required outcomes

• Ability to present information in different styles according to the need and maturity of the dev team AND according to the stakeholder type

• Experience of the entire technology delivery lifecycle from inception to release and maintenance.

• Encourage and establish (or re-establish) ways of working for the product teams and third parties with clear accountabilities

• Seek ways to collaborate across the wide spectrum of stakeholders in order to achieve common understanding of challenges, opportunities and next steps

• Contribute towards creating a trusted empowered team that feels comfortable handling challenging conversations around scope, benefits, failure and ways of working

• Deliver in agile/iterative environments with some experience of methodologies such as SCRUM, Kanban and Lean. Understanding of iterative product development including MVP, prototyping and lean start-up techniques.

• Help teams achieve their and the associated organisational goals

• Improve a team's performance by promoting Agile values alongside ways of working in order to mature the team’s Agile understanding and confidence to manage itself

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy .

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships , free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• 25 days holiday , plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you to apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected] .