Our client, a well-known utilities organisation is requiring a Business Analyst to work on a number of Engineering & Construction projects, so experience in this field is compulsory for this position.

The suitable candidate will have to have proven domain experience in Intelligent Process & Instrumentation Diagrams, Digital Site Surveys and water network optimisation.

General BA job description -

The Business Analyst (BA) is responsible for gathering and understanding the business needs of our organisation within specific projects and operational improvement initiatives. The BA will work with our Project Managers and our IT teams/business teams, to ensure that requirements are accurately translated into system implementations and that business processes are optimised where appropriate. The BA will be working across a range of small, medium and large-scale projects, complex and simple, and with a range of SWS directorates and working with small to global suppliers.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES:

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, user stories scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyse information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed:
• Business Requirements Document, Process Models, Use Cases, User Stories, GUI, UX/Screen and Interface designs
• Utilise your experience in using company-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies required.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Work independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers
• Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans
• Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the application and infrastructure teams through which requirements flow.
• Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural and clear language.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Be the business analysis liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams
• Undertaking data analysis as required by the role

Essential knowledge/Experience

• Working with Project management methods e.g. using PMP, Prince2 (or equivalent)
• Proven experience in Waterfall and Agile/Iterative development approaches
• Proven business analysis skills
• Experience of user acceptance testing of solutions
• Sound understanding of IT / Web technologies
• Regulated industry background or exposure a bonus
• A certificate in business analysis practice e.g. BCS/ISEB/CPAB certified
• Experienced in a variety of methodologies such as use cases, user stories and UML
• Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent
• Demonstrable experience in business analysis, applying business analysis tools / method / techniques across a range of medium and large-scale projects and programmes. Ideally with experience in leading and managing more junior BA staff on large-scale projects
• Extensive experience of successful business process re-design, analysis, definition and documentation (e.g. UML, BPMN, EPC)
• Breadth and depth of expertise in business process improvement within complex environments
• Extensive experience of designing and applying business improvement methods and techniques.

Contract for an initial 3 months paying up to £500 per day LTD. Client based in Worthing but work to be fully remote currently.

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