Senior IT Business Analyst
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Who are we?
We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.
What we’re looking for?
This role sits within IT, but you will work closely with all levels across the breadth of the business.
Centred around analysing and recording stakeholder requirements, you will help validate business benefit, record requirements, shaping a project of work, before gaining investment sign-off at executive level. The role is primarily a waterfall-based pre-project delivery.
Projects and changes are varied and could cover any area of the business, from regulatory, finance, to customer experience, to technical IT change, with all major projects supported by a five-year roadmap, where managing and prioritising workload to the plan is key, in addition to facilitating timely decision making, and expectation setting where required. This is an excellent opportunity for a high-quality Business Analyst to join an innovative, fast paced Utility company based in South Wales.
We’ll trust you to:
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Work with the project sponsor and key stakeholders to define and agree the objectives and scope of new work
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Work with the sponsor and a wider range of stakeholders to analyse and document business requirements (Functional, non-functional, technical and general)
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Work alongside the IT Architecture team to review and match requirements to an appropriate solution
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Assist in the coaching and development of more junior staff
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Review and quality check the work of more junior and contract IT Business Analysts
You can read a full job description here.
You’ll need to have:
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BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis, or equivalent, is highly desirable
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Prince 2 Foundation, or an equivalent Project Management qualification, is desirable
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Degree level education, or equivalent, is mandatory
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Excellent verbal/written skills and be a good listener
We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role!
As we are a safety critical organisation, all offers of employment are subject to pre-employment drug & alcohol screening.
What’s in it for you?
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A competitive salary starting at £60,000 rising to £69,000
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Hybrid working
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Flexible working opportunities
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25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
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Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
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14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
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“Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
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Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
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Enhanced pay for parental leave
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Retail discounts and cashback scheme
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Annual salary review
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Discretionary annual bonus
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Company Sick Pay
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In-house Occupational Health Team
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Employee Assistance Programme
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Comprehensive training
The way we do things
Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business – from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.
We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.
You can find out more here.
Interested?
If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you!
To apply, click the link below.
If you would prefer to complete your application form in an alternative format such as Microsoft Word or would like to discuss the role in a little more detail, please contact us at recruitment@wwutilities.co.uk or on 07971038982.
You can also ask us about flexible working practices that may be available or tell us if you have any special requirements during the application process.