Business Analyst

Job Description

Role: Business Analyst

Location: London

Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience

Career Level: 9 - Specialist

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

Accenture Software & Platform Engineering:

S&PE is the home of our dedicated technology people who are focused on engineering memorable yet differentiated and captivating customer experiences.

We have a seasoned group of cross-industry specialists who provide the best of full stack software engineering, cloud and platform engineering. This includes fluency in Cloud Native, Data, Mobile, Internet of Things, Gen-AI, Frontend, Platform Engineering and Creative Design.

If you’re looking for an exciting career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

We are looking for talented Technology Leaders with a passion to positively impact the lives of many through technology.

As a BA you will:

• Be proficient in business analysis activities to ensure your team has all the information they need to keep things moving
• Work independently and proactively in a challenging environment within multi-vendor set up
• Use your influencing skills to bring people together to work through complex tasks and reach the right outcomes
• Work as part of a multi-disciplined team and contributing to/leading sessions while engaging/managing difficult stakeholders to achieve results

Job Qualifications

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

• Usage of tools across business/technology project disciplines, including a working knowledge of Design/Build/Test and Implementation phases of the project lifecycle
• A proven track record in business analysis with different methodologies
• Demonstrable experience of business change methodologies and processes - including Business Driven Development
• Proven capability in End-to-end requirement management including gathering and documenting complex requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria, Business Requirements Document, FRD, Requirement Traceability Matrix, requirements verification and validation
• User profiling and journey mapping – Proficient in creating detailed process maps using industry standard techniques and produce As Is-To Be analysis, Gap Analysis
• Engagement and collaboration with Solution Designers and Developers to confirm and ensure requirements map to a technical solution design.
• Use analysis skills to be able to present business with multiple solution options and document the same via Options Papers
• Strong capability in complex business impact assessment & analysis across multiple Business streams with the ability to articulate impact for change on various aspects of business including potential customer harm, colleague impact, financial impact, technology impact, process changes etc.
• Experience in analysing data to facilitate informed decision making
• Defining strategy, approach and execution of Business Verification, First Occurrence and Live Proving
• Lead/participate in lessons learned sessions and improving the BA processes

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.