Business Analyst

Job Description

Role: Business Analyst

Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol

Salary: Competitive (based on experience)

Level: CL9 - Consultant

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) and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.

Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement

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 these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

Qualification

Join Secure Transformation Services, the UK market leading team for sovereign tech transformation at secure clients working on projects in complex, regulated, public sector environments.

We deliver services that make a lasting impact by improvinguserslives, making our country safer and enabling business to evolve. Our impact goes beyond improving utilisation and sales KPIs. We are expanding the STS Business Analysis team to shape new ambitious and business critical products and experiences for users of both public and private sector clients.

The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate,operateand deliver valueprovidesan unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

Requirements

Youwill playan important rolein bridging the gap between all business stakeholders, both internal and external, including Sales, Project Management, Technical Architecture, Development, QA Testing, and service support colleagues. You will take ownership to understand the change needs of our clients, investigate business problems and opportunities, andfacilitatethe delivery ofappropriate changesthrough the application of business analysis techniques and documentation.For this role you are:

• Performing discoveries and are comfortable with planning, conducting,analysingand communicating findings that ground design decisions against user needs.
  

• An intellectually curious, creative problem solver and passionate about solving business problems by creating inclusive, accessible services for a diverse user population.
  

• Collaborative and supportive, and you enjoy working in a dynamic and creative environment. You are comfortable working with the different technical experts being part of a multidisciplinary team.
  

• Keen to be up-to date with AIadvancements andare passionateto steerclientstotake advantage of AI, and how AI can bring efficiencies to your ways of working.
  

• Co-creatorwithstakeholders andusers. Yourelish participation of stakeholders and the widerteam andhave experience leading workshops and broader inclusive design initiatives.
  

• Agreat with stakeholders and are an engaging communicator, able to speak fluently tobusinesspeople, designers,engineersand other stakeholders.
  

• Elaborate epics and user stories from high level concepts to 'playable' units of work for the Developers.
  

• Craft and translate business needs into traceable requirements and show evidence how the solutions meet the required needs with measurable valueand business priority.
  

• Comfortable working with the team reshaping user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
  

• Elaborate epics and user stories from high level concepts to 'playable' units of work for the Developers.
  

• Work closely with the Design and Research team, notably User Researchers and Service Designers, and integrate and enable user research as part of elaboration and continuous improvement
  

• Assistthe / Delivery Manager / Scrum Master with maintenance of physical and digital Agile boards
  

• Can articulate the definition of ready/done, user story kick-off and sign-offand requirements for UAT
  

• Work with other Business Analysts, Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Technical Leads and QA and external stakeholders on site
  

• An advocate for best practice and promote business analysis acrossSecure Transformation Services
  

Experience

• Previousbusiness analysis experience
  

• Knowledge and application of the Requirements Engineering Process and experience in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
  

• Experience of applying a variety of BA techniquesappropriate tothe business situation such as Business Process Modelling (using BPMN), Context Diagrams, Use Cases, SWOT analysis, MOSTanalysisand Business Activity Models to support the investigation and analysis of business situations.
  

• Experience of working in an agile context.
  

• Experience in a range of prioritisation techniques (RoM, t-shirt sizing,MoSCoWetc).
  

• Understanding of user centric design experience with non-functional aspects such as security, privacy, accessibility,performanceand reliability.
  

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will alsohave an extensive benefits package which includes up to 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Locations

London

Birmingham

Additional Information

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About Accenture

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