Senior / Lead Business Analyst

Description

Our Product Development Team is looking for a Senior / Lead Technical Business Analyst, as it expands to meet the growing demands of the business, at what is an exciting time for the company. This is an ideal opportunity for someone seeking to influence, drive and challenge our software development processes. Alongside your first class technical analysis skills, you'll have significant experience of working with software delivery teams, and be an expert in Agile delivery techniques.

Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders to understand our goals & vision, and identify business needs.
• Assist with project validation by identifying/evaluating areas of risk and devising mitigation strategies. 
• Support product owners and UX with market research, user research and commercial validation efforts.
• Pair with quality analysts and UX designers to define requirements that are clear, concise and comprehensible.
• Use your methodical approach, technical prowess and tenacity to ensure that all edge cases have been identified and articulated in requirements.
• Identify and resolve issues with dependencies and conflicting requirements, dealing with pain points, and translating them into business opportunities.
• Occasionally, act as a Scum Master for a delivery team, by: facilitating meetings and ceremonies (workshops, retrospectives, showcases and inceptions), removing blockers, managing WIP, fostering continuous improvement and keeping the team highly motivated.

Skills & Requirements:

• Significant experience of working successfully with software delivery, Agile teams and are well versed in various Agile delivery methodologies.
• Depth and breadth of experience to help the delivery team, and other business analysts, in prioritising competing demands, obtaining buy-in from stakeholders and resolving conflict with stakeholders.
• Been leading and facilitating inceptions, retrospectives and workshops for delivery teams as well as stakeholders in the business.
• Worked within a software delivery environment as a business analyst, or have a technical (systems/development) background. You are able to analyse and explain issues from both a technical and a business point of view.
• Experience acting as a servant leader for a delivery team, ideally as a Scrum Master with a recent certification, or a similar role.

About you:

• Keen attention to detail, passionate about quality, love collaboration and have a problem-solving mind-set.
• Experience working within collaborative environments supporting product owners, QA analysts and the business throughout the product development lifecycle.

About Us:

Acuris powers business growth for financial and professional services firms worldwide. Through events and subscription-based digital services, we provide unique, high-value content that helps our customers to make the best decisions based on the strongest evidence. Our sector specialists and expert analysts interpret data and intelligence to extract new insights that create business opportunities for our customers. We’re trusted by many of the world’s principal advisory firms, investment banks, law firms, hedge funds, private equity firms and corporates, who rely our brands to help them understand specialist markets and find ideas for business development. Founded in 2000, we’re a growing family of information brands united by common characteristics: sector expertise, analytical skill, proprietary data and solutions that are packaged for maximum value. You’ll find our 1,000 staff, including 500 specialist journalists and analysts, in 67 locations around the world.

Your responsibilities of the role will include the above but will not be limited.

Acuris is fully committed to a policy of non-discrimination and to promoting equality of opportunity in employment on grounds of merit, experience, skills and aptitude in order to maximise the full potential of both existing and prospective employees.