Business Analyst in Leeds

Grant Thornton — At Grant Thornton we do things differently, looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance. A true alternative. With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we’re on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional, and we need the best people to help us achieve our potential.

Grant Thornton is building a new digital team as part of the firm’s £500m multi‑year investment to transform how we work and deliver for clients. This investment is focused on redesigning our operating model around the way clients make decisions, using data, digital tools, and streamlined processes to remove friction, reduce duplication and provide faster, clearer insights. The new digital team will play a critical role in shaping and embedding these changes across the firm, developing tools, platforms, and digital capabilities that accelerate decision‑making, improve the client experience, and empower our people to work smarter. Working at the heart of a major firm‑wide transformation, this team will help modernise core processes, support innovation, and ensure we deliver a more efficient, tech‑enabled, and future‑focused service for our clients.

We’re happy to talk flexible working and consider reduced hours and job shares, we’ll support you to balance your work and life.

As a Business Analyst within our team practice, you will:

• Collaborate with stakeholders through interviews, workshops, surveys and other appropriate methods to identify and comprehensively document business requirements and populate product backlogs.
• Analyse and prioritise requirements to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Validate requirements with business stakeholders and the feasibility of requirements with technical specialists.
• Take a first principles approach to process and technology improvement and recommend solutions that support strategic value drivers (value creation, operational efficiency, modern ways of working, business protection).
• Collaborate with the development team to implement process changes and monitor their impact.
• Continuously seek ways to optimise business processes and systems.
• Work closely with the appropriate technical, development, product, design and project colleagues to ensure solutions are designed to successfully meet business needs and deliver their anticipated outcomes and value.
• Provide feedback and recommendations for improvements based on testing results and through monitoring of operational use and impact.

Minimum criteria:

• Proven experience as a technology focused Business Analyst using industry standard techniques to determine and document process improvements, business and technical requirements.
• Evidence improving processes and capturing requirements from first principles.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle and frameworks, and technology implementation projects.
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Jira or similar tools.

It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box, we’ll help you develop along the way:

• Technology or developer background, including exposure to technologies such as: Microsoft M365, Power Platform, SharePoint, Microsoft Azure, Workday, GenAI.
• Appropriate professional certification.
• Understanding of professional services and/or partnership structured organisations.

Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential. Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work.

Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance. The impact you can make here will go far beyond your day job. From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society. It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs through our every move, grounded in our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind. We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves.