Contract Business Analyst
Posted 2 weeks ago by Answer Digital
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Contract Business Analyst at Answer Digital involves collaborating with clients to define their requirements and deliver effective solutions within the digital and tech consultancy space. The position requires strong analytical skills, the ability to manage ambiguity, and excellent communication capabilities to engage stakeholders at all levels. The successful candidate will contribute to various projects, ensuring that business needs are met while promoting diversity and inclusion within the workplace. This role is based in Leeds and operates outside of IR35 regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Shape client requirements and deliver great outcomes through effective analysis.
- Utilise industry-standard analysis skills within business change and software development life-cycles.
- Drive functional integrity of solutions, prioritising business requirements.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders and present complex ideas clearly.
- Manage requirements and backlogs, structuring statements of work.
- Deliver projects using various software development methodologies.
- Collaborate and solve problems creatively while ensuring commercial acumen.
Key Skills:
- Utilisation and advisory experience in analysis skills and techniques.
- Expertise in discovery phase activities and managing ambiguity.
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Demonstrable commercial acumen.
- Experience in Lean / Systems Thinking and JTBD / VMOST methodologies.
- Experience across various business sectors, particularly in Healthcare.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract Business Analyst - Digital/Tech Consultancy - Hybrid/Leeds - Outside IR35
What you’ll be doing
We have a number of exciting projects lined up to start over the next couple of months, so we’re looking to expand our talent pool of great contract business analysts to help shape our client requirements and ensure we deliver great outcomes! As a business analyst at Answer, you will be instrumental in helping our clients understand the problem they are trying to solve. You will be asking the question “why?” to truly understand our client’s problems and help define an analysis approach that gets the best results, tailoring playbooks to fit the need.
What you’ll bring to Answer
- Utilisation and advisory experience of industry-standard analysis skills and techniques within the business change and software development life-cycles
- Expertise in discovery phase activities, comfortable working with ambiguity, and the ability to shape and clarify needs in order to agree scope, manage requirements and backlogs, and structure statements of work
- Ability to drive the functional integrity of the overall solution, ensuring that all key elements of the business case are prioritised and satisfied by the business requirements
- Excellent interpersonal skills - articulate and engaging, and able to communicate effectively and confidently with stakeholders at all levels
- Presentation capabilities which can transform complex ideas into clear narratives, tailored to your audience
- Demonstrable commercial acumen, ensuring value is understood and scope and requirements are managed and align to this, when making decisions or recommending actions
- A natural inquisitiveness with the ability to question others, collaborate, shape and confirm ideas and solve problems creatively
- Experience of delivering projects through a range of software development methodologies
- Experience in practice of Lean / Systems Thinking JTBD / VMOST
- Experience in a number of business sectors and industries, if you’ve worked in Healthcare or have a passion for Healthcare tech that would be great!
Diversity and Inclusion
At Answer we proudly embrace diversity and inclusion - we want to create a safe environment for everyone to bring their true selves to work. We will do everything we can to support your application; if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process please speak to our recruitment team.
A bit more about us.
Answer Digital is a highly successful digital transformation consultancy headquartered in Leeds. We’re a company on a fast growth trajectory with a reputation of delivering large-scale, operational critical solutions. People are at the heart of everything we do - so much so we’re owned by our people. It sets us apart from most digital businesses you’ll meet and defines our culture and values. Our people are invested in everything we do, because we are invested in them. Don't believe us? Well check out our glassdoor and here what our people have to say