Consultant Business Analyst 2023

Hippo Digital is recruiting for Consultant Business Analysts to join our growing consultancy.

As a Consultant, specialising in Business Analysis, you’ll be on your way to becoming an expert in your field. You’ll be inquisitive, keen to learn and understand agile deliveries.

You’ll be able to demonstrate previous experience as a business analyst & to support your continued development we’re excited to offer an ongoing 6 month training programme focusing on:

• Agile Business Analysis
• User Centred Design & Requirements Iteration
• Modelling Methods & Techniques
• Backlog & Requirement Management
• Acceptance Criteria
• Data Analysis and more

Business Analysts translate complex business problems and user needs into a set of detailed requirements for the end-to-end service or product, with the appropriate use of epics, features, user stories and defined acceptance criteria. You'll clearly and accurately communicate business requirements and user needs in an iterative way to a variety of stakeholders, including SMEs and the team, using the appropriate methods of communication or documentation.

Your role in a nutshell

• Work with the Product Owner and/or Delivery Manager helping to establish and maintain a prioritised product, programme or project backlog of what needs to be built
• Work with designers to inform the creation and iteration of prototypes for the services or product to solve the problems users face
• Collaborate with user researchers to represent users internally
• Document business processes for products or services to inform recommendations identifying clear benefits and contributing to delivery plans
• Use insights from user research and metrics to inform the business analysis approach, and explain your business decisions clearly
• Investigate problems and analyse options for new and existing services, providing recommendations for solutions
• Source requirements and facilitate the setting of business priorities for change initiatives of medium complexity
• Contribute to user acceptance testing or user testing phases
• Run workshops with your team and stakeholders
• Build long-term relationships with stakeholders
• Work with the hippo business analysis community to share best practice to ensure high standards, including attending business analysis events and writing blog posts

Skills and experience that you need

People are at the centre of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our clients and their users. We take a common sense approach to getting things done. We get things wrong, we learn from experience and we adapt. We stay curious and never stop learning.

We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you can demonstrate the following:

• Have strong business analysis skills including communication, listening and organisational skills
• Have expertise in eliciting and management requirements to meet user needs within a product or services focussed project
• Enjoy working collaboratively with your team and experts
• Be comfortable working in rapid sprint cycles
• Be a confident presenter and be able to articulate the benefits of business analysis to people who aren’t familiar with the discipline
• Have a positive “can do” attitude
• Have the ability to develop great consultancy skills, caring about your client’s needs and motivations
• Enjoy sharing your skills and experience with your client to enable them to continue to iterate and improve content after you leave
• Experience of working in an Agile workplace

What makes us great

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 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

Hi, we’re Hippo

We’re a digital service design consultancy that works closely with our clients to create digital products and services that work for everyone. Since our inception, we have quickly established ourselves as a leading supplier of digital leaders, service design teams and delivery expertise. We support large-scale digital transformation programmes to public and private sector organisations looking to truly embrace digital services to innovate and evolve. We aspire to add value and leave a lasting benefit within those institutes. Our philosophy is to ensure the user is at the core of everything we do, research, design and deliver. Collaborating with us means embracing a digital-first strategy with people first design, which will genuinely create lasting change and positive impact.

Our Hippo offices are in Leeds, London, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester. However, we invite candidates to apply from anywhere in the UK who can be flexible regarding location. We offer a relocation support package of up to £8k to help cover the cost of moving somewhere within commuting distance of one of our locations. Please note that due to the nature of the business, we may also request that you work from client locations or work from home.