Company Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity to join the internal Business Analyst team within the Group Systems corporate IT function. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will lead the analysis and design of business-critical systems and processes, delivering enterprise-wide solutions that drive operational excellence and digital transformation across the organisation.
What We’re Looking For
We are seeking a proactive, strategic thinker with a passion for solving complex business problems. You’ll be confident building relationships with stakeholders at all levels, challenging and influencing projects and driving change in a dynamic environment.
Key Responsibilities
1. Lead the end-to-end business analysis lifecycle across a variety of different sized projects
2. Engage with senior stakeholders to elicit, challenge, and prioritise business goals
3. Translate high-level business goals into detailed functional and non-functional requirements
4. Define and document current and future state business processes
5. Facilitate workshops, interviews, and data analysis to uncover issues and areas for improvement
6. Collaborate with technical project teams to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose and aligned with the business requirements
7. Develop and deliver business change strategies, alongside internal comms and learning teams to ensure successful adoption
Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment
Qualifications
8. Expertise in business process mapping and requirements gathering
9. Strong analytical mindset with an inquisitive nature
10. Effective management of priorities, time and workload
11. Demonstrated ability to lead workshops that facilitate decision-making
12. Ability to build and proactively maintain positive working relationships
13. Ability to manage and influence stakeholders
14. Excellent written communication skills, including business cases, user stories, and training materials
15. Willingness to seek opportunities and feedback to continue to learn and share skills and knowledge
Desirable Technical Skills
16. Experience with enterprise platforms such as Workday, PeopleSoft Financials, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM
17. Familiarity with Azure DevOps or similar tools for backlog and delivery management
18. Understanding of data integration, reporting, and automation concepts
We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today by completing our online application
Additional Information
Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
Find out more about Life at PA.
We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:
19. Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
20. 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
21. Generous company pension scheme
22. Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
23. Annual performance-based bonus
24. PA share ownership
25. Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
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