At PA Consulting we define success as achieving exceptional results that have a lasting impact on businesses, communities, and people worldwide. Our Business Analysts play a key role in delivering the technical solutions which achieve these results. We are looking for Business Analysts across a variety of levels who wish to develop their career. You will be a part of a team providing direction, guidance and support to both the Client and PA's wider business.
Business Analysts at PA work in some of the most exciting and diverse areas of the corporation. We have been crucial in Home Office IT Portfolio transformation, from design to implementation digital immigration services; we were key to delivering the Ventilator Challenge in 2020; and we worked with Border Force to upgrade critical infrastructure in a phased national rollout. These are just a few examples of some of the inspiring and ground-breaking work we do.
The scope of your involvement with projects will be vast and varied, helping organisations to define their needs and optimise their business. You will have the opportunity to:
Work with our clients to define and steer business analysis workstreams across programmes and projects
Tailor PA's business analysis framework to meet the specific needs of a client environment
Work with clients to ensure processes are defined and requirements are captured and managed effectively
Help clients build a compelling case for change and manage transformation in a controlled and effective way
Provide support to programme and project implementation
Perform assurance reviews of client's capabilities, drawing on PA's business analysis assurance framework and supported by your own business analysis experience
Develop personal knowledge and skills by attending and delivering role specific training
As a Business Analyst you are part of a community of BA's who feed more widely into our Agile Capability. This will give you the opportunity to contribute internally to PA, by sharing your expertise and experience to develop a variety of areas within these teams.
Ideally, you will have:
A minimum of two years' experience of working as a Business Analyst, preferably in one or more of the following areas: Agile environment, process design and analysis, and / or information system transformation
The ability to articulate the approaches, tools, and responsibilities of a business analyst
Exceptional stakeholder management skills including technical support to business users
Exceptional interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with top-level stakeholders
Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills in troubleshooting and solution design
Excellent written skills
Ability to understand stakeholder objectives, processes and services to contribute to strategic change control and delivery management
A desire to support PA's internal capabilities and develop PA's Business Analysis expertise through training and knowledge sharing
Desirable experience includes:
Experience in process modelling, capturing business requirements, performing gap analyses and devising strategies to rectify disparities
Practical know-how and knowledge in business analysis and industry recognised tools and techniques including JIRA and Confluence.
Ability to mediate between low-level technical detail and higher-level objectives
Experience working as a business analyst in a scrum team and supporting product owners to articulate business needs across epics, features and user stories
Ability to facilitate workshops and interviews with key stakeholders to elicit requirements and key information
Experience owning deliveries end to end from initial change request to go-live.
A thorough understanding of different delivery models including Waterfall and Agile
An understanding of test approaches and experience in supporting testing activities, including development and execution of test scripts
Certifications in Business Analysis e.g. BCS
Experience or desire to work on microservice architecture and cloud technologies e.g. AWS
Experience of defining the business analysis frameworks for large scale programmes and complex procurements
Experience of leading teams of business analysts to deliver programme outcomes
Experience of coaching and developing teams to adopt business analysis approaches and frameworks
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Benefits
PA is committed to building an inclusive and supportive culture where diversity thrives, and all of our people can excel. We believe that greater diversity stimulates innovation, enabling us to fulfil our purpose of ‘Bringing Ingenuity to Life’, supporting the growth of our people, and delivering more enduring results for our clients.
We only recruit, promote and reward our people based on their contribution, without regard to gender, race, disability, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.
We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.
