Business Analyst
International Baccalaureate Organization
Business Analyst
£45000
International Baccalaureate Organization, Adamsdown, Caerdydd - Cardiff
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 19 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: d7ba4816e53540c39327e6f3ffb37d89
Full Job Description
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.