Business Analyst

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit

Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.

Overview of role

We are looking for Business Analysts to join the Optimisation Workstream in the Central Digital team which is working to create innovative new digital solutions that embed and evolve Mott MacDonald’s technical domain capabilities.

The role will be exposed to the demanding and real-world problems faced by our clients and project teams; and have the exciting opportunity to help them articulate their business requirements and advise them on digital solutions and methods to meet their challenges.

The role has a fantastic opportunity to engage with teams across Mott MacDonald’s EUNA and ISMA Regions to help steer our initiatives and deliver what our delivery teams need now and in the future.

Responsibilities

The role will play a crucial role in engaging with business stakeholders, establishing their requirements and help to develop our initiatives to meet those needs. The role will be part of how we bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions from start to end.

The main areas of work for the role are:

• Connecting with stakeholders to conduct requirements gathering, analysis and review; through interviews, workshops, document review and assessments.
• Identifying opportunities for implementing digitalisation to solve infrastructure industry challenges. Applying digital-first approaches to existing or new needs, focusing on efficiency and effectiveness.
• Supporting stakeholders in the identification of additional potential functional as well as non-functional requirements.
• Prioritisation of requirements based on outcomes for the business and perceived effort or complexity.
• Supporting the evaluation of technical feasibility against business requirements.
• Continuing engagement with stakeholders and end-users in the managing the realisation of business requirements through any design and development.
• You will have exposure to a wide range of sectors and service lines across Mott MacDonald; supporting colleagues with varying levels of digital maturity to translate their knowledge, processes and methods into scalable processes and digital solutions that solve client challenges and deliver return on investment to the business.

Candidate specification

The essential qualifications for this role include demonstrated ability in a Business Analyst type role or other delivery related experience ideally in consultancy, digital or IT teams.

You will bring enthusiasm and growing technical skills to help develop optimisation projects. You will demonstrate integrity through your collaboration with stakeholders and interactions with other members of the team.

Essential

• Empathetic engagement and communication skills
• Genuinely collaborative attitude and approach.
• At least 2 years of experience in a Business Analyst or similar role.
• Drive and enthusiasm to solve problems, improve society, make a difference.

Desirable

• Experience of agile development.
• Previous experience of digital tool projects or digital change initiatives would be advantageous.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or similar work experience.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.