Our client is a leading and awardwinning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool Manchester London Leeds Piraeus Singapore Monaco and Hong Kong. With more than 840 people including 175 partners and legal directors the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum from noncontentious advisory and transactional work to all forms of commercial litigation.
They act as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade through to retail insurance marine health education manufacturing public sector and banking and financial services.
Due to the growing team we are now actively looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join them.
Job Role Senior Business Analyst
Hours 37.5 hours a week FTE OR part time 4 days per week
As the winner of Working Families Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020 we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Department IT Transformation
Location Liverpool
Benefits
We understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here are some examples of what we offer:
- 25 days annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy sell and carry over scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible agile and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment
Role overview
Introduction to the role:
The Business Analysts within our team are key to the success of our project delivery methodology. They work with stakeholders at all levels across the business to uncover and document detailed requirements that form the basis of a successful project. They also ensure that any changes to requirements are captured along the way.
The team work alongside our Testers to ensure that requirements are fully covered and understood during test preparation and work with the Project Managers to help manage scope and change control. Also capturing requirements at such a detailed level means that our BA s become experienced systems users and are therefore key to supporting testing activities and our inhouse Training Team with the rollout of business change and post go live support.
Our BA s need to be excellent communicators (both written and oral) persuasive analytical and tenacious. We re looking for someone with experience of working in a similar environment used to working with Stakeholders at all levels and comfortable leading workshops and delivering training.
Introduction to the team:
As part of the Delivery and Change department in the firm you will be part of a large team of Project Managers Business Analysts and Testers within the PMO. Within the firm wide PMO you will bring to the team your experience and ability to roll up your sleeves and assist with an exciting change within the business. The team delivers all projects across the firm and is a wellrespected part of our business model. We have high standards for work but we also have fun while we re doing it and work as a team fully supporting each other.
Key responsibilities:
- Able to demonstrate a high level of experience of Business Analysis across multiple departments and functions(Yellow Belt or above)
- To lead the Business Analysis team and drive change and improvements within the Business Analysis team
- To be the key point of contact for the team with other teams
- To ensure a consistency of process and documentation within the Business Analysis team
- To provide support to the other Business Analysts in the team both on projects and as Business Analysts
- To mentor less experienced members of the Business Analyst team
- To carry out the role of Business Analyst on projects covering:
- Analysis of current processes and requirements for new processes
- Documentation of current processes new processes agreed decisions etc
- Testing supporting the Test team with test preparation and the undertaking of test cases when required
- Training & Support assistance with training and post go live support
What we are looking for
Essential:
- Demonstrate knowledge and application of Lean Six Sigma practices to ensure continuous improvement process mapping of business activities.
- LSS Data approach and high level of understanding data to evidence areas of opportunity and measure success.
- Demonstrate a high level of experience of business analysis practices and documentation including analysis and investigation
- Able to work on the most complex project as either the sole Business Analyst or the lead Business Analyst
- Able to lead a team of Business Analysts to improve project processes and documentation as well help develop team members
- Strong working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel
- Demonstrable experience of requirements gathering workshop delivery process mapping and gap analysis
- Able to demonstrate experience in stakeholder management in a complex stakeholder environment
- Ability to understand and respond to user needs in a rapidly changing business environment
- Excellent communication skills
- Able to demonstrate tact and diplomacy when liaising with stakeholders
- Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
Desirable:
- Previous involvement in complex data migrations
- Previous experience working on upgrade projects (systems & technical infrastructure)
- Working with integrated systems
- Knowledge of the legal sector and legal sector software systems or knowledge of insurance sector business processes software systems or knowledge.
Mission who we are and our approach
We act as trusted advisors to our clients providing commercial solutions in their specialist markets for their strategic
success.
20:20 Vision where we want to be
We want to grow a sustainable and profitable business with a positive and inspiring culture which places us as a top 40 law firm.
People Strategy
To create a firm we are proud of and a culture that reflects our values to deliver our ambitions of growth
Equality Diversity & Inclusion
To foster an environment of fairness equality and respect for all regardless of age gender gender identity professional skills or status ethnic origin disability sexual orientation marital or transgender status nationality religion or belief and to create an inclusive culture that is representative of all sections of society.
Partnerships
We work with Stonewall as part of our commitment to being an LGBT friendly employer to ensure all policies are gender inclusive and we are up to date on language and terminology. We link in with local Pride events and wear rainbow lanyards to show support to the LGBT legal community.
We work with the Social Mobility Foundation to offer work experience placements in October each year for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. We deliver a formal mentoring programme with associates and trainees mentoring students from the Social Mobility Foundation. We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and inclusion for all roles.
We are members of Working Families and work with them to ensure our policies and practices are family friendly as well as commercially viable. Working Families worked with us to develop our updated Smart Working guidelines which promotes a healthy work life balance by encouraging all employees to have a flexible approach to work in a way that is beneficial to them and to their work.
Values
Trust: We understand that trust is fundamental to how we do business it empowers our colleagues builds loyalty and inspires creativity.
Respect: We will maintain the highest standards of professionalism and integrity so that we foster a climate of mutual trust and confidence amongst our colleagues.
Innovation: We will embrace change utilise our technologies and modernise our approach to business and people management.
Collaboration: We will work together and integrate across teams and in doing so share our expertise and knowledge for the benefit of the firm and our clients.
Disability Support
We will make reasonable adjustments to help you perform at your best. Please contact the Huntsman Group Recruitment Team and tell us what adjustments you need to submit an application for a vacancy or if you require reasonable adjustment should you be invited to interview.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard preemployment screening including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
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Next Steps
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Job Type: Permanent
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