Business Analyst

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Base Location: Reading / Havant

Salary: £36,836 - £48,648 depending on skills and experience plus a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent, Full Time, Flexible working options available.

What is the Role?

As an IT Business Analyst supporting our Distributed Energy business and supporting Project Managers in their day-to-day activities, you’ll be responsible for liaising between the main business and the IT delivery function; gaining knowledge and understanding of business scenarios and problems and documenting your findings in a manner that is unambiguous and relevant to a project’s stakeholders.

You’ll provide recommendations to solutions ensuring they meet the needs of the user and the business as well as being responsible for elicitation and analysing, specifying, validating and verifying requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Works with business system colleagues to clarify requirements, to plan implementation and to answer queries through the development process
• Marshals and documents requirements for the subsequent identification of an appropriate solution and the detailed design of a business process to accommodate it
• Undertakes business analysis projects and tasks under the leadership of a more experienced analyst or project manager
• Plans, prioritises, manages and executes analysis work on multiple simple or individual complex projects in order to regularly achieve cost and timescale targets
• Works with the business to understand and prioritise conflicting needs
• Contributes to the execution of user system testing and to the test plan for projects
• Undertakes personal responsibility for IT data security by ensuring that rules and practices are identified
• Identifies and determines end-to-end business processes using standard methods
• Presents business and technical concepts to process owners and business users
• Identifies and assesses business and IT risk
• Prepares succinct reports and communications that are tailored to different situations and audiences
• Carries out in depth scoping exercises during the early stages of a work package to identify key issues of concern and to ascertain clear direction
  

What do I need?

To Be Considered For This Role

• You’ll be experienced IT Business Analyst (BA), demonstrating experience and an understanding of both agile and waterfall projects.
• Good understanding of our Distributed Energy business, you’ll be confident to facilitate workshops and participate in meetings with senior business stakeholders.
• Stakeholder management skills, creating and maintaining effective business relationships, along with your ability to relate IT developments to tangible business outcomes will be key to your success.
• Be prepared to ask questions and challenge existing processes and methods, you’ll demonstrate process modelling (Visio or other) and ideally BMPN skills.
• MS Office/O365, and be familiar with MS Project.
  

About Our Business

SSE IT underpins the technology needs of all the different businesses that make up the SSE group. From emerging technologies to data and analytics to cyber security - we power SSE’s growth and enable it to generate value, while keeping it secure. As a trusted business partner that helps SSE lead in a low carbon world, we are proud of our service. Working for SSE IT is all about equipping SSE for now and the future.

Life at SSE

If you’re considering a career with us, you’re probably wondering what’s in it for you? From health and wellness to finances and family, we’re proud of our benefits package which includes 34 days holiday (plus the option to buy additional days), enhanced maternity and paternity leave, discounted healthcare and a wide range of offers via our SSE Advantage scheme.

At SSE we’re proud to celebrate difference. We all have different skills, experience and backgrounds and we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture where you can be yourself. We take pride in a job well done and share the belief that an inclusive culture is key to our success and vision for the future. Above all, safety is at the heart of everything we do at SSE and we live by the mantra ’if it’s not safe, we don’t do it’.

SSE is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application and assessment process, and upon joining SSE.

Next Steps

All applications should be submitted online, and I’ll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.

If you would like to discuss any working differently requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact david.brickell@sse.com / 01738 275846.

EXTERNAL ONLY: If you successfully secure a role with us, you’ll be required to complete our pre-employment screening process before joining.

INTERNAL ONLY: Please notify your current line manager, before submitting an application.