Business Analyst

As a Business Analyst you'll join us on a Fixed-Term-Contract to support our Global Digital Assessment Project. The project aim is to migrate the bulk of our examination offerings for the Diploma Programme and Careers-related Programme to a digital format over the next several years, retiring the current large-scale production and administration of paper-based examinations and related materials.

You'll partner with internal stakeholders across the IBO for the Digital Assessment Project to understand current state/baseline - encouraging clear, efficient, standard, documented and repeatable business processes . You'll facilitate workshops and have relationships with all areas of the organisation.,

• Gathering and analysis of facts, figures and business artefacts.


• Requirements definition and management.


• Facilitating meetings and workshops.


• Stakeholder analysis and management.


• Leading and co-ordinating impact assessments.


• Production of reports, proposals/recommendations, options analysis, requirements documents and presentations.


• Working closely with and supporting Product Owners, including creation of user stories and backlog management.


• Support of UAT activities, including preparations, planning, supporting Product Owners, ensuring "definition of done" can be converted into test scenarios, co-ordination and reporting, to ensure that deliverables are meeting stakeholder expectations and offer a good user experience.


• Collaboration and joint working with vendors.


• Process mapping and rework.


• Assisting with adoption planning activities, including communication/training plans.


• Work with stakeholders to evaluative solution options against business requirements and jointly identify and plan the delivery of identified business benefits.


• Production of, or support for, a variety of project lifecycle related documentation, including idea papers, business case, cost/benefit/ROI analysis and recommendations


• Involvement in vendor/product selection activities.


• Creating recommendations based on analysis.


• Leading small to medium improvement initiatives, and/or the early stages of a potential project.
  
  Experience as a Business Analyst working on projects of varying scale as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business.


• Experience of the full requirements management lifecycle under a variety of frameworks (Agile/Waterfall).


• Experience of using delivery team collaboration tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps (TFS).


• End to end experience of software development lifecycles - including in an agile framework.


• Able to understand how specific systems sit within the full solution/end to end data journey and highlight potential conflicts and impacts.


• Comfortable/able to analyse, interpret and work with large/complex data sets


• Able to facilitate discussions with business stakeholders to understand how data is used and required operational and historical/retention purposes.


• Full proficiency in the use of Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Visio, strong Excel data analysis skills.
  
  In addition to your salary, we offer an attractive range of benefits including:


• Flexi-hours with core working hours between 10am - 12pm and 2pm-3pm.


• 10% employer pension contribution.


• Enhanced family friendly benefits.


• 25 Days annual leave, plus public holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 days additional annual leave.


• Life assurance 4x annual salary.


• Paid volunteering leave.


• Excellent continuous professional development.


• Flexible benefits allowance (1.5% of salary).


• Health and wellness schemes.


• Cycle to Work scheme.


• Discounts on a range of products, including days out.


• Cash back opportunities available from a wide range of retailers.


• Employee Assistance Programme.


• Free on-site car parking.