Business Analyst

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We are Places for People Group; we are placemakers; our work impacts on the lives of people across the U.K. – providing homes to live in, communities to retire to, spaces to stay active, supported homes for independent living, and student accommodation. Our places work when they work for everyone.

How do we do all this? By surrounding ourselves with innovative people, inquisitive people and problem-solving people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

So, we want you to join us and the 12,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped us create places, maintain 195,000 homes, manage £4 billion of assets and teach 75,000 children to swim each week.

More About Your Role

Currently we are looking for two experienced Business Analysts to support the ITS team with a huge programme of change. We are a large Group, and many of our businesses have ambitious plans for growth often driven using technology. Either looking at making more of current platforms or implementing new systems and processes. As Business Analyst you will act as an intermediary between IT project teams and our Group businesses to collect, clarify, and translate business requirements into documentation and conceptual designs, ensuring that applications and solutions are developed to meet evolving business requirements and drive better value from IT systems.

You will take a lead role in understanding business requirements and translating these into effective technical solutions and system developments liaising with colleagues to help deliver these.

What is unique about working for IT at Places for People is that we work closely with our partners at Microsoft, Google and Amazon to provide all of our team including FTCs access to lots of training and resources so that you can gain skills and knowledge on cutting edge cloud technologies to help support you in driving our move to cloud but also to further your own learning and development.

This role can be based from home, however our IT department operate from Preston, Lancashire and our business is UK wide therefore some travel to offices will be required. For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

More About You

You will possess considerable experience working as a Business Analyst, with good knowledge of project management and process design software such as Visio and MS Project. Ideally you will have experience with property/construction however this is secondary to the ability to take complicated problems, analyse them, and develop a clear set of requirements for manageable, deliverable solutions.

Over the coming year the Group businesses you will support will be undergoing considerable business change, reorganisation and harmonisation of processes and software, therefore it would be advantageous if you had experience of software procurement and process mapping/ solution design methodologies.

Finally and possibly most importantly is your ability to build relationships with colleagues at all levels of the business quickly, to be able to ask the right questions in order to understand their needs, and be able to translate these into business requirements that deliver strategic objectives. You will need the ability to be a “critical friend” in order to question assumptions and help teams to think “outside the box” in order to achieve their optimal business processes. You will need superb communication and presentation skills.

The Benefits

Our ambition gives you all the challenge you could wish for and that’s why we can offer you tangible and exciting career progression in a diverse and pioneering business.

Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier; from a pension, generous holiday pay, training, sick pay, and free or discounted gym membership – to a wealth of extra perks including interest-free loans for colleagues, discounts and offers on thousands of retailers, restaurants and leisure outlets and much more.