Intermediate Business Analyst in Leeds

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions for a diverse range of Public and Private sector clients. We are recruiting for an Intermediate Business Analyst to support our mission. We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology to solve complex problems and create lasting value. Our collaborative and agile culture empowers our teams to make a genuine impact.

As an Intermediate Business Analyst, you will play an important role in making Hippo the best Consultancy out there. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team combining data, design, product, delivery, analysis and engineering to deliver bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. You will act as an Intermediate Consultant to deliver Business Analysis services to our clients. You will take complicated business problems and user needs and turn them into clear instructions for the services or products we create. You will work closely with designers and product owners to ensure we deliver useful things quickly to users and clients.

Your Role in a Nutshell:

• Look closely at problems and suggest different ways to improve services and products, giving clear and helpful advice.
• Plan and run workshops, build strong relationships, and make sure everyone agrees on the same goals.
• Write down and study how businesses work, finding ways to make them more efficient.
• Gather and make clear what's needed for a project, turning them into simple instructions for the team.
• Work with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to keep track of what the team will work on.
• Help with testing the product to make sure it works for users.

Skills and experience that you need:

• Analytical and critical thinking
• Essential Experience: Experience in business analysis and working on Agile projects. Proven ability to look carefully at information from different places to figure out what it means and suggest what to do. Experience using different ways to show how things work (modelling) and choosing the best way to use them. Experience working well with designers and understanding how user research helps decide what is needed for a project. Ability to confidently share findings with project teams using facts and evidence.
• Desirable Experience: Ability to use data to help with clear thinking and decision making. Experience deciding which things on a project plan are most important (prioritisation). Experience influencing design decisions, such as how user research is done or how the product looks.

What makes us great:

Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on-top of a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
• 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of private health cover, private dental cover, additional company pension contributions, additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days), wellbeing contribution, charity contributions, tree planting.

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo:

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture.

Hippo Locations:

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.