About Us Azets is an award winning leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisors operating across the UK, Nordics and the USA. We are a family of over 6,500 employees and work across 100 offices in the UK alone. We have seen dramatic growth in recent years which has made us the 9th largest accountancy firm in the UK, and we are over the moon to have been awarded Accountancy Firm of the Year in the FD Excellence Survey 2020 The role Responsibilities We are currently looking for a Business Analyst to join the Continuous Improvement team on a remote basis. The Continuous improvement team is responsible for delivering enterprise wide programmes and projects with support from our IT solutions team to help make solutions a reality. The Portfolio of work is very broad and includes process improvement, elements of transformation, as well as Technology implementations. A short number of key responsibilities outlines below(this list is not exclusive): Creates, manages and develops processes and procedures that support best practice delivery and comply with industry regulations, whilst maintaining a balance against business needs, driving business process improvements, risk and cost Work with the business owners to create and maintain an operating plan to achieve a strategic vision that defines the people, processes, tools, and technology Liaise with business and our partners to elicit, analyse, translate, and document business requirements into technical requirements Analyse, document and test program development, logic, process flows and specifications Document user manuals to describe application installation and operating procedures Key accountabilities This role is responsible for introducing and managing business change by identifying and defining the business needs, help identify solutions, problems and risks to delivering the change successfully on a broad range of programmes and projects. The main focus for this candidate will be on process change and improvements within Business operations with a lean towards potential automation across our technology stake so technical skills would be advantageous but not required. Reporting to the Lead Business Analyst, the candidate will work collaboratively with other members of the Continuous improvement team the wider IT teams to support the delivery of change. Skills & Experience Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills. Great communication and persuasion Strong technical understanding across a wide portfolio, ideally accountancy and banking and finance. Strong analytical skills applied to understanding business functionality and translating them into application requirements Ability to create compelling business cases with accurate cost and effort estimations Excellent understanding of business complexity and project interdependencies Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changing business requirements Outstanding written and verbal communication skills Ability to quickly troubleshoot problems that may arise in work products In depth understanding of the various software development lifecycles (e.g. Agile, Waterfall etc) Automation experience is preferable but not a necessity for the role Technical BA mindset Preferable 3 years experience