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Business Analyst (Product)
Fully-remote
A little flex time
Job Description
The salary for this role is £40,000-£45,000.
Are you a UK based Business Analyst looking for a new challenge?
Do you have great experience in owning the BA function in a small company, working across multiple teams and stakeholders, and experience helping with data analytics using Power BI or Tableau?
Would you be interested in helping with the running of crucial platforms that help the government keep Livestock safe and healthy?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control, whilst enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people, who share in our values.
We are now looking for Product focused Business Analyst to join us fully remotely in the UK. As our Product BA, you’ll lead and manage the investigation, analysis, documentation and design/re-design of business activities and processes improvements, specifically improving effectiveness as part of the Product Business Capability Area.
This role will involve heavy interaction with stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand business issues, problems and requirements, and reporting status updates to senior leadership. You’ll make recommendations for business improvement, fully documenting these in the form of requirements and functional specifications, with project proposals being fully assessed for: feasibility, expected user, stakeholder, and organisational outcomes, as well as value for money.
Responsibilities
- Lead on evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions consistent with LI’s business strategy.
- Demonstrate exceptional capabilities in data analysis and management, with ability to interpret complex data to drive insightful business decisions and strategies
- Gather and analyse business requirements, facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews, and create functional specifications and process flow diagrams to support LI Product objectives.
- Ensure outcomes are aligned with service vision and business strategy by contributing to the link between current and future business models and delivering to the business architecture.
- Challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose.
- Facilitate collaboration and lead effective communication with all stakeholders in support of design, build and delivery to meet the user needs.
- Lead and define business requirements, including discovery, analysis, documentation, process flows, use cases, test and training plans.
- Evaluate existing business processes and identify improvement opportunities.
- Define user journeys and manage requirements across a wide range of complex and competing stakeholders.
- Manage and document requirements using relevant tools.
- Establish and maintain open lines of communication and build good working relationships with internal and external colleagues and suppliers, ensuring key internal and external stakeholders are kept fully informed and involved throughout the project lifecycle.
- Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts including reporting status updates.
- Translating business needs into detailed business and functional specifications.
- The post holder may be required to undertake other related duties assigned by the line manager as appropriate.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in a STEM subject.
- Great experience as a BA within a software delivery environment, ideally working with Product teams.
- Excellent experience with data & systems analysis using Excel and either Power BI or Tableau
- Ability to produce requirements definition and functional specifications based on as-is and to-be processes.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams: Engineering, Scrum, Program, DevOps etc
- Strong Stakeholder engagement experience
- Experience in business process (modelling and tools).
- Fantastic communication and organisation skills
- Experience with modern technology stacks & markup languages
- Experience with project management
- Competency in Microsoft applications & experience using Engineering Tools (Azure DevOps)
- Comfortable working in a fast-changing development environment.
- Experience in the farming/agriculture sector would be advantageous but isn’t essential.
Benefits
As an LI employee, you will be entitled to our company benefits which include:
- Remote-first working set up (must be UK based)
- 33 days annual leave, inclusive of Bank Holidays
- 4 x annual salary Life Assurance
- Market leading pension through Legal & General
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Excellent learning, training and, career development opportunities and funding
- 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- An inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued
Application and Interview Process
To apply for this role you will need to submit a CV and answer some pre-screening questions.
The interview and assessment process for this role will involve a telephone interview with our Talent Team, followed by a first stage conducted over MS Teams, and a final stage interview conducted in-person.
If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us as soon as possible by emailing talent@livestockinformation.org.uk to discuss your needs.
Diversity statement
At Livestock Information, we value diversity and believe that every individual brings different strengths. We understand that not everyone may possess every single skill outlined in this job description, but if you believe you have a solid skill set that enables you to excel in this position then we really encourage you to apply.
Disclaimer
Livestock Information Ltd. cannot sponsor work visas at this time.
Livestock Information Ltd. Does not discriminate based on race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.
Livestock Information Ltd. Does not accept unsolicited CVs from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited CV’s not originating directly from a candidate and sent to Livestock Information Ltd or any Livestock Information Ltd employees, including unsolicited CVs sent to a Livestock Information Ltd mailing address or email address, are rejected. Livestock Information Ltd will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited CV. Livestock Information Ltd considers any candidate for whom the recruiter has submitted an unsolicited CV referred by the company free of any fees.
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