Intermediate Business Analyst (Identity)

About The Role 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 with experience in Identity and Access Management 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. We are initially looking for consultants who are based in the London area. 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 and transformation that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. You will act as an Intermediate Consultant to deliver Business Analysis and Identity and Access Management services to our clients. You will help application owners turn often complex or undocumented requirements into clear, supportable RBAC models and onboarding requirements for Microsoft Entra or another identity provider. You will work closely within a multidisciplinary team of Identity and transformation experts to deliver high quality services and transformation to our clients. This is an analysis-led role requiring consultancy and technical depth to ask the right questions, challenge assumptions and produce implementation-ready outputs for engineers and service teams. Your Role in a Nutshell Conduct discovery with application, business, security and service owners to understand users, entitlements, risks, dependencies and current access processes. Plan and run workshops, build strong relationships with stakeholders, and make sure everyone agrees on the same goals. Map current-state and target-state access journeys, including requests, approvals, provisioning, review, change and removal. Review how identity processes work against best practice and standards, identify ways to make them more efficient. Elicit and document identity-provider integration requirements for Microsoft Entra or equivalent platforms. Work within a multidisciplinary team to deliver Identity projects and services to our clients. Help with testing the product to make sure it works for users. About the Candidate: Essential Experience Active SC or CTC. Proven business analysis or IAM analysis experience in identity, security, access management or application onboarding. Strong understanding of identity lifecycle, access requests, approvals, provisioning, recertification and deprovisioning. Strong facilitation, negotiation and written communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience managing multiple work items through governance, testing, approval and handover in an Agile or iterative delivery environment. Ability to confidently share findings with project teams using facts and evidence. Desirable Experience Experience with Microsoft Entra Enterprise Applications, Entitlement Management, access packages or group-based assignment. Knowledge of segregation of duties, privileged access, least privilege and audit-control requirements. Experience onboarding SaaS, cloud-hosted, legacy or bespoke applications with differing integration capabilities. Familiarity with service design, process-improvement techniques, Azure DevOps or IT service-management tooling. Experience in a regulated, safety-critical or complex multi-supplier environment. About The Company 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%