Business Analyst - Data & Analytics

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational change within our clients.  We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications.  We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals. 

About the role: 

Join Sword Group as a Business Analyst and play a key role in shaping how data and reporting are understood, structured and delivered across our programmes. This role centres on gathering and refining data and analytics requirements, interpreting complex information, and supporting the development of clear, meaningful reporting outputs.

You will work closely with stakeholders to translate business needs into well-defined requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria. You’ll analyse data sets to identify patterns, support improvements in data quality and consistency, and ensure data is used effectively to support decision-making.

This is a hands-on, detail-focused role ideal for someone who enjoys problem-solving, working with data, and bringing clarity to complex information.

As a Business Analyst, you will:

• Work with stakeholders and subject-matter experts to capture, refine and prioritise reporting and analytics requirements
• Act as a bridge between operational teams and BI developers, ensuring data solutions are aligned to business needs
• Interpret and analyse asset and operational data to support performance tracking and continuous improvement
• Support the development of meaningful dashboards and reports using Power BI or similar tools
• Contribute to data quality and standardisation activities across diverse datasets and systems
• Translate business needs into clear user stories, functional requirements and acceptance criteria
• Support backlog grooming, sprint planning and review sessions within an Agile delivery environment
• Promote consistent use of trusted data sources and standard business definitions
• Build strong relationships across teams, helping ensure insights and reporting are well understood and used effectively

Requirements

• Experience as a Business Analyst within an IT, digital or data-driven environment
• Strong experience gathering and shaping reporting, analytics or BI requirements
• Practical experience using SQL to explore or query data
• Good working knowledge of Power BI or similar visualisation/reporting tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work confidently with complex datasets
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams
• Experience working in Agile or structured delivery environments
• An interest in supporting data quality, consistency and standardisation across systems

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.  

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life.  In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package: 

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth. 
• Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.  We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can. 
• A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more…. 

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us. 

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments. 

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