Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Location: Cambridge or Remote
Salary: circa £49,000 plus benefits
Contract Type: 1 Year Fixed Term Contract
Position Type: Full-time

Closing Date: 24/11/2024

Our client are currently looking for a skilled Business Analyst to join their team on a 1-year Fixed Term Contract to support a key system upgrade project. This role involves collaborating closely with internal stakeholders and our third-party implementation partner to ensure the successful upgrade of an existing system to its latest version.

In this role you will conduct in-depth analysis of current business processes and where areas will not upgrade cleanly manage process reengineering. You will be applying your expertise in methodology to create detailed documentation, including user stories, use cases, and process models.

As an experienced Business Analyst, you'll bring a winning combination of analytical skills, excellent stakeholder management abilities, and a passion for driving transformational change. If you're ready to leverage your talents to make a tangible impact, they want to hear from you.

Essential Skills:

• Proven experience in gathering and documenting business requirements, particularly in system upgrade or migration projects.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex business problems, analyse data, and provide practical solutions.
• Strong analytical skills to assess business processes and identify areas for improvement.
• Competency in modelling techniques such as Activity Diagrams, Entity-Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), Sequence diagrams, and Process Flows (BPMN a plus).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex business problems, analyse data, and provide practical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are crucial. As a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, you'll need to convey ideas clearly and collaborate effectively.

They embrace flexibility and offer hybrid working, which means their teams come together when they need to collaborate. Although this role is contractually based at their Cambridge office, you will have the opportunity to also work mostly from a UK location other than this. Applicants should be aware that there is an expectation that employees will attend the Cambridge office once a month.

About the organisation

Our client is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to advance chemical sciences. As a not-for-profit publisher, they reinvest surplus funds back into the global scientific community, supporting their purpose to help the chemical science community make the world a better place.

Why join them

They promote a healthy work/life balance and flexible working options across the organisation. They offer a comprehensive benefits package to all employees including:

• 26 days paid holiday per annum
• 35-hour working week with flexible options
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Paid volunteering days
• Pension plan with up to 12% employer contributions (depending upon your contribution)
• Life assurance at four times basic annual salary

Visit their 'Work For Us' website to learn more about them, their benefits, equal opportunities statement and inclusive culture pledge.

If you are interested in this role, please apply before the end of the closing date, please, see the full Job Description here.

They recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. They particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates.

As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who has a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.

They are committed to making our recruitment processes accessible to all and as part of this, they are flexible in the ways they give and receive information. If you would like to apply using a different format, please contact the Recruitment Team they will do their best to put any reasonable adjustments in place.

No agencies, please. All recruitment enquiries from third-party recruiters will not be considered.

You may also have experience in the following: Business Analyst, BA, Data Analyst, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Project Manager, Project Management, Business Process Analyst, etc.

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