Business Analyst in London

Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol

Salary: Competitive (based on experience)

Level: CL9 - Consultant

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.

Join Secure Transformation Services, the UK market leading team for sovereign tech transformation at secure clients working on projects in complex, regulated, public sector environments. We deliver services that make a lasting impact by improving users' lives, making our country safer and enabling business to evolve.

Requirements:

• You will play an important role in bridging the gap between all business stakeholders, both internal and external, including Sales, Project Management, Technical Architecture, Development, QA Testing, and service support colleagues.
• You will take ownership to understand the change needs of our clients, investigate business problems and opportunities, and facilitate the delivery of appropriate changes through the application of business analysis techniques and documentation.
• Performing discoveries and are comfortable with planning, conducting, analysing and communicating findings that ground design decisions against user needs.
• An intellectually curious, creative problem solver and passionate about solving business problems by creating inclusive, accessible services for a diverse user population.
• Collaborative and supportive, and you enjoy working in a dynamic and creative environment.
• Keen to be up-to date with AI advancements and are passionate to steer clients to take advantage of AI.
• Co-creator with stakeholders and users.
• A great communicator, able to speak fluently to businesspeople, designers, engineers and other stakeholders.
• Elaborate epics and user stories from high level concepts to ‘playable’ units of work for the Developers.
• Craft and translate business needs into traceable requirements and show evidence how the solutions meet the required needs with measurable value and business priority.
• Work closely with the Design and Research team, notably User Researchers and Service Designers.
• Assist the Delivery Manager/Scrum Master with maintenance of physical and digital Agile boards.
• Can articulate the definition of ready/done, user story kick-off and sign-off and requirements for UAT.
• Work with other Business Analysts, Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Technical Leads and QA and external stakeholders on site.
• An advocate for best practice and promote business analysis across Secure Transformation Services.

Experience:

• Previous business analysis experience.
• Knowledge and application of the Requirements Engineering Process and experience in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience of applying a variety of BA techniques appropriate to the business situation.
• Experience of working in an agile context.
• Understanding of user centric design experience with non-functional aspects such as security, privacy, accessibility, performance and reliability.

What’s in it for you:

• Up to 25 days’ vacation per year.
• Private medical insurance.
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.

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