Business Analyst

Location Perth
Job Type Contract
Salary Up to £500 per day
Reference SSEGJP00001694_1674477042
Duration 3 months

To provide a business level requirements gathering and process identification process.

Skills / Experience
* Excellent analysis and knowledge transfer skills to a proven professional level
* Able to take ownership of problems and requests as well as the ability to work in a pressurised environment
* Excellent time management skills; able to effectively plans own and others' time
* Able to visualise and articulate proposed solutions to business problems provided by design team to business areas
* A proactive approach with the ability to prioritise own workload within demanding schedules
* Strong written and verbal skills
* Good facilitation skills; enables people to reach agreement and develop work practices
* A systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving
* Forms judgements based on logical conclusions that have been drawn from available facts

Key Accountabilities
* Works with business system colleagues to clarify requirements, to plan implementation and to answer queries through the development process
* Marshals and documents requirements for the subsequent identification of an appropriate solution and the detailed design of a business process to accommodate it
* Undertakes business analysis projects and tasks under the leadership of a more experienced analyst or project manager
* Plans, prioritises, manages and executes analysis work on multiple simple or individual complex projects in order to regularly achieve cost and timescale targets
* Works with the business to understand and prioritise conflicting needs
* Contributes to the execution of user system testing and to the test plan for large projects
* Undertakes personal responsibility for IT data security by ensuring that rules and practices are identified
* Identifies and determines end-to-end business processes using standard methods
* Presents business and technical concepts to process owners and business users
* Identifies and assesses business and IT risk
* Prepares succinct reports and communications that are tailored to different situations and audiences
* Carries out in depth scoping exercises during the early stages of a work package to identify key issues of concern and to ascertain clear direction

Experience
* Experience from a similar support or development role in supporting business critical systems in a medium/large organisation
* Demonstrates a comprehensive breadth and depth of knowledge and experience
* Understanding of the gas and electricity industry particularly in relation to Trading
* Experience of working in an agile environment
* Knowledge and experience of testing and preparation of test scripts would be useful but not essential.

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.