Business AnalystMethods

As a Business Analyst you will act as a translator between the stakeholders and the delivery team. Working closely with all roles in a multidisciplinary team on client projects, driving the initiation, planning and implementation phases in line with client goals and strategic objectives. When not working on client projects, you may be involved in: Improving Business Analysis best practices within the BA community of practice, improving internal processes and procedures, supporting the commercial team with bids, or providing consultancy services to our clients based on your areas of expertise.

You will be:

• Playing a pivotal role in understanding the complexity of delivery and distilling into clear and simple communications and documentation. This should facilitate the work of the development team and maximize the value of the product or service.
• Working with stakeholders to understand their needs and represent them as usable requirements for the delivery team
• Collaborating with internal colleagues and departments to understand the technical constraints. Facilitate the communication and resolution of technical blockers.
• Mapping client's as-is processes for products or services. Gather stakeholder and user feedback to identify pain points and potential improvements.
• Collaborating with the development team to map out a to-be process for client's product and services. Do gap-analysis to identify and communicate the required changes.
• Using data modelling practices to analyse your findings and create suggestions for strategic and operational improvements and changes.
• Producing analysis and documentation of risks, opportunities, benefits, and costs.
• Providing data driven recommendations to the client. Communicate the benefits of your recommendations across stakeholders and help to address any concerns.
• Creating visual representations or written documentation to support your work, report on findings and present to stakeholders.
• Supporting client staff and teams in applying the recommended changes using problem-solving skills to resolve any issues and overcome blockers.

You would ideally demonstrate:

• Experience in eliciting business requirements using a range of techniques (e.g., workshops, interviews, workflow mapping etc.)
• Experience of Business Analysis planning and monitoring, for example building and maintaining a Requirement Traceability Matrix
• Experience in developing and managing Epics, Use Cases and User Stories, as well as creating, managing, and refining product backlogs.
• Knowledge/experience of writing scenario-based acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Experience of working in an Agile project delivery team using an agile project management tool such as Jira, Azure Dev Ops or Trello.
• Excellent MS Office skills.
• Demonstrate a structured approach to analysis, modelling, and documentation, using recognized tools and techniques.
• Knowledge/experience of Power BI, Tableau, or other similar BI visualisation tools.
• Understanding of relational database modelling, analysis, optimisation, star schema/ snowflake models, ETL (Extract Transform Load), normalisation, complex SQL queries, stored procedure, automation scripting.
• Understanding of Azure, AWS, or other similar cloud platforms, and how they are different from on-premises platforms.
• Awareness of Data Science, AI, and big data principals.
• Ability to work on own initiative with minimum supervision in a deadline-driven environment.
• Setting up business metrics to evaluate the quality of a solution.
• Relevant professional development certification, such as IIBA or BCS certifications.
• Knowledge/experience of using T-SQL, Python, R, or other programming languages.

You may also have desirable skills and experience:

• Setting up business metrics to evaluate the quality of a solution.
• Relevant professional development certification, such as IIBA or BCS certifications.
• Knowledge/experience of using T-SQL, Python, R, or other programming languages.
• Understanding of Data Governance
• Understanding of Data Architecture Principles and ITIL Framework.
• Understanding of User Centered Design and Service Design including the Government service standard.

Working at MA

Methods Analytics (MA) exists to improve society by helping people make better decisions with data. Combining passionate people, sector-specific insight, and technical excellence to provide our customers an end-to-end data service.

We use a collaborative, creative and user centric approach to data to do good and solve difficult problems. Ensuring that our outputs are transparent, robust, and transformative. We value discussion and debate as part of our approach. We will question assumptions, ambition, and process – but do so with respect and humility.

We relish difficult problems, and overcome them with innovation, creativity, and technical freedom to help us design optimum solutions. Ethics, privacy, and quality are at the heart of our work, and we will not sacrifice these for outcomes.

We treat data with respect and use it only for the right purpose. Our people are positive, dedicated, and relentless. Data is a vast topic, but we strive for interactions that are engaging, informative and fun in equal measure. But maintain a steely focus on outcomes and delivering quality products for our customers.

We are passionate about our people; we want out colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.

This role will require you to have or be willing to go through Security Clearance. As part of the onboarding process candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard; details of the evidence required to apply may be found on the government website Gov.UK. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed, or rejected . Details of this will be discussed with you at interview

By joining us you can expect:

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring, and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment