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Business Analyst - Automation
Permanent - Full Time
Location: Office Base can be London, Cardiff, Salford, Newcastle or Glasgow. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.
Job Reference: SF20244
Band: D
Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to.
Job Purpose
As a Business Analyst in the Technology & Media Operations team, you will challenge, understand, and gather business requirements for project, product, and programme delivery. Capturing and optimising business processes and workflows, ensuring they align with strategic objectives. Identifying business benefits for successful technical delivery across a vast portfolio of projects, products, and transformational change programmes.
Our technical products are integral to BBC production, supporting creativity, producing wonderful content for our television, radio, online and streaming applications, and our social media services. Our supply chain is everything, reviewing and improving our business data and system processes to ensure it is robust and continuously improved.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
* Supporting the business to identify new ways of working, innovating, adding value, and eliminating inefficiencies.
* Gathering workflow requirements to support the drive toward standardisation and design of straight-through-processing capabilities.
* Measuring capacity, aligning to technology and business strategy.
* Delivering against milestones and competing deadlines.
* Engaging with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across Technology, Production, Broadcast, Operations, and Support Functions to document current and target state processes.
* Identify options for potential workflow between automation solutions and assess for both technical and business suitability.
* Working with Microsoft Platform and enterprise products to get the most out of those applications and services.
* Working with finance teams to develop opportunities for change in processes and to challenge the status quo.
* Research options for automation and system-based solutions within the business and wider group.
* Perform reviews and analyses of current data and processes using operational metrics and reports to demonstrate efficiency.
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
To be successful in this role, you will have:
* Highly motivated with a desire to succeed with the ability to see the “big picture.”
* Ability to effectively deliver timely and comprehensive results in environments or projects that are nonlinear.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to quickly adapt communication styles to different audiences.
* Broad knowledge of business processes and automation.
* Degree in Business Management, Enterprise IT, or other relevant field or equivalent experience.
* Comprehensive knowledge of business and data analysis tools and techniques.
* Thorough knowledge of project lifecycle delivery as a Business Analyst in a technical environment.
* Excellent planning and organisational skills; able to juggle competing priorities and take the appropriate course of action.
Interview Process
Interviews will be held virtually and between the 23rd and 30th April. We expect them to be one stage only and the format will be a blend of BBC Value questions and Technical questions.
About the BBC
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants.
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.
DISCLAIMER
This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance.
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