Business Analyst - 12 month fixed term contract

Location: Flexible - able to travel across our operating region

Salary: £41,212 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

Closing Date: {Expiry Date}

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Business Analyst to join our team.

As a key member in the delivery team you will be responsible for reviewing and developing services across our whole transformation agenda. This could be services that form part of Asters Customer Services Modernisation programme or could be to enable efficiencies for our Group Services by supporting the implementation of new software. You will work closely within project teams with colleagues from across the business ensuring that business requirements are gathered with solutions developed that meet their needs.

You will be known internally as a Service Designer.

Key accountabilities will include:

Facilitating design workshops with business stakeholders utilising a suite of business analysis tools.
Leading on eliciting business requirements that influence system design and collaborating with IT colleagues and external partners in solution development to ensure they are met and the UI/UX are considered throughout. Ensuring a detailed understanding of business requirements.
Working alongside IT colleagues and/or test engineers to develop solution prototypes. Leading on system integration testing to ensure software solutions meet the requirements of the business, prior to user system and acceptance testing
Considering and appreciating data integrity within the creation and review of any services.
Ensuring robust documentation is produced throughout the design process to evidence the service progression and to support future iteration.
You will be responsible for maintaining detailed requirements, tasks, business decisions and discussion in Azure DevOps throughout the development lifecycle.
Ensuring Aster’s services continue to meet the relevant business requirements necessary to ensure compliance and reporting needs are met.

About You

You'll be an experienced business analyst who ideally has worked with Microsoft D365 applications before and will be able to bring with you relevant knowledge and expertise.

Extracting, analysing, and interpreting information from stakeholders is vital to this role so your communication skills will need to be one of your key strengths. You won’t be afraid to ask why, or challenge in a productive way to get the best insights from both the colleagues and customers you will be working with. You will also be confident facilitating in a virtual space as well as face to face where required.

You may be required to attend meetings, workshops and events so will be willing and able to travel across our operating areas as and when required. Otherwise, you'll be able to work flexibly enabling you to work in the environment that works best for you.

Our operating region includes Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
Enhanced leave
We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives, and monthly and annual awards.

To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

Aster is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.

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Business Analyst - 12 month fixed term contract