Business Analyst
Location: Newcastle
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) at the point of application.
Hybrid Working: This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.
About Accenture:
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services.
As a Business Analyst, you will:
1. Bridge the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, elicit requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders.
2. Create functional designs, sequence diagrams, process flows, business rules catalogues and product backlog items to agree detailed requirements with client product owners and clearly communicate what needs to be developed and tested to the feature teams.
3. Identify, analyse and complete complex business impact assessment across multiple business streams to understand the impact of the product/change.
4. Prepare and co-ordinate business activities to support large implementations.
5. Ensure business is operationally ready to support the target operating model.
6. Lead business change activities, building communications and designing training plans to support change.
7. Support Testing by reviewing scripts, triaging defects and assisting with test queries.
As a Business Analyst at Senior Analyst and Consultant Career Levels, you will:
1. Have the ability and expertise to operate independently in a high impact customer facing role.
2. Be able to take our customers on the journey of requirements identification and elicitation.
3. Have the experience and skill set to integrate closely with both business and technology teams and create a holistic vision of the solution that enables successful delivery.
4. Work closely with solution architects and technical architects to develop solutions to our customers' problems.
5. Have experience coaching and leading junior Business Analysts.
6. Have a solid understanding of the range of Business Analysis tools and techniques and be able to demonstrate experience of their use.
7. Have experience of shaping innovative solutions to problems.
We are looking for experience in the following skills:
1. Establishing and implementing mechanisms to measure and deliver benefits.
2. Ensuring that maximum improvements are made in existing and new business operations as groups of projects deliver their products into operational use.
3. Utilising one or more structured techniques for solution design such as Design Thinking, UML or BPMN.
4. The ability to understand business change needs, and can assess the business impact of those changes, capturing, analysing and documenting requirements.
5. Utilising one or more tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio or Excel.
6. Can demonstrate an understanding of and practical experience with either an Agile or Waterfall delivery.
7. Experience in delivering change in a number of industry areas, including the Public Sector.
Set yourself apart:
1. Hold a professional BA Certification.
2. Experience in working in Scrum, capturing and generating User Stories.
3. Experience in preparing affected business areas for transition to new ways of working.
What's in it for you:
At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
Closing Date for Applications: 30th September 2024.
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found. #J-18808-Ljbffr