Junior Business Analyst at Methods Business and Digital Transformation – United Kingdom

Methods is an established £100m Digital Transformation company, part of the Alten Group, which over the last 32 years has provided innovative business and digital technology services. We have over 50 active clients many of which have been working with us for more than 10 years.

Requirements

This is an entry-level role, that will be focussed on rapidly developing your skills and behaviours needed to be successful as a consulting Business Analyst. This will be done through our structured development program which is over six months. The program will be aligned to the Business Analysis development pathway for your early career which supports job shadowing and other opportunities where you will be able to deliver small client assignments under the supervision and support of our senior Business Analysts. This will enable you to develop experience in both the technical and practical application of the core skills, tools, and techniques required for this role.

Successful applicants should have an understanding of the UK public services landscape and a desire for exploring different sectors. In addition to possessing good communication and engagement skills (written and verbal), you will need to be innovative and have a thirst for new techniques and technologies to support the more efficient delivery of improved outcomes.

The role will be home based and will include some work on client sites.  The Junior Business Analyst will initially focus on development of their career to be a Business Analyst, acquiring a detailed understanding of the wider business offerings and developing a set of skills, competencies, and knowledge to extend their contribution to other practices and their continued progression.

What we need from you:

Ideal candidates should demonstrate:

• Confidence in communicating and engaging with different individuals and stakeholder groups
• Good interpersonal skills, demonstrating the ability to relate to customers and other stakeholders in their own language
• Ability to interpret and extract information from a variety of sources, and create well presented, accurate, concise documentation, demonstrating attention to detail
• Excellent organisational/time management skills and the ability to work calmly and professionally at pace and under pressure
• Understanding of the basic principles of project management, business analysis and change methodologies
• Ability to recognise team dynamics and how people work together
• Ability to support an open and collaborative environment to work in, be flexible, and adaptable
• Aptitude for identifying innovative approaches to problem solving and/or devising inventive and creative solutions.
• Ability to harvest, manage, analyse and manipulate data in a variety of formats
• Ability to write clear, accessible and persuasive reports
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office suite

What are we looking for in you:

• Resilience
• Strong collaboration and team working
• Commitment to learning and self-development
• Good Communication skills
• Genuine passion/commitment to improving public services
• A determined and tenacious approach to work
• A creative approach to problem solving
• Good listening and comprehension
• Great stakeholder management

The Junior Business Analyst will have the following responsibilities:

• Contribute to the successful delivery of projects through the application of learning and accessing of colleague knowledge and experience that adds value to our clients

• Engage with clients to elicit information and analyse data sources to provide considered opinion
• Support the analysis and understanding user and business needs, including where material is drawn from multiple sources
• Support the mapping of processes and information flows into appropriate artefacts for communication with both stakeholders and the team
• Translate user needs into system functionality requirements
• Explore under direction, the internal and external situation and environment, eliciting and managing any non-functional requirement
• Manage requirements through their life cycle, ensuring traceability and supporting prioritisation with stakeholders
• Write clear and concise user stories with clear and testable acceptance criteria.
• Support Methods colleagues and other resources as appropriate to achieve client outcomes, resolving issues and escalating where necessary
• Manage mechanisms for knowledge transfer to client teams and foster collaboration across client and internal boundaries
• Support the development of new products and services and evolve existing products and services in line with market knowledge and company capability
• Support internal change projects by applying proportionate best practice approaches
• Contribute to project-related internal case studies and lessons learnt and help maintain the portfolio and company knowledge base
• Actively participate in relevant professional events to gain and share industry knowledge
• Support other team members through knowledge sharing and buddying where appropriate