IT Business Analyst 2022

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for it’s employees? Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

What you'll do

For this role you will

• Analyse business requirements with users. Determine feasibility, cost, time and resources required, compatibility with existing system(s), potential problem areas, and recommending and presenting solutions in meeting project objectives.
• Work with project team(s) to develop project scope, budget, timeline, resources, risks, and project value.
• Ability to carry out process identification, definition and mapping. Participate in planning and designing business processes, including formulating recommendations to improve and support business activities.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops for visioning, surveys, business process descriptions, user story-based product backlog development, use cases modelling and specification, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Conduct detailed research in order to translate business requirements into precise, high quality user stories or functional specifications that are clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team.
• Identify and validate key business requirements.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams and help drive projects across the product design, development and testing.
• Communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to understand business strategies and future initiatives to determine future process and solution needs.
• Develop and execute business communications to internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitation of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Agile / Scrum methodology experience would be beneficial

Candidate specification

Required for the position of Business Analyst

Problem-solving skills

• An ability to identify the key points, understand everyone’s interest, list possible solutions, evaluate options, and document.

Analytical mindset

• Creative and curious, with the ability to concentrate on large volumes of data / information, then analyse and produce a result.

Elicitation

• The ability to “Draw Out” information using different techniques to elicit functional and non-functional requirements, by asking the “Right Questions” to make the information relevant.

Communication

• Possess the ability to listen, understand, and relay back clear and concisely information. Having the amplitude to think before responding and responding in a neutral state.

Time Management

• Having the thought process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency and productivity.

Team Player

• Being humble without excessive ego or concerns about status.
• Being hungry and constantly looking for more to learn and responsibility to take on.
• Being people smart and tend to know what is happening in a group situation, and how to deal with others in the most effective way.

Qualification and experience

A bachelor’s degree in IT or business management, or relevant experience. Extensive demonstratable experience in Business Analysis.

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

Job profile

Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively.  The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.

We are looking for a professional with expertise in both Information Technology and Business Administration for the role of IT Business Analyst. You will work alongside a global IT team, project and program managers, project directors and business stakeholders to perform detailed requirements gathering and analysis, developing Statement of Work, business cases and assist in defining project scope and success criteria.

The best IT Business Analysts have exceptional analytical and interpersonal skills, as they act as a communication link between the IT department and other divisions. To succeed in this role, you should possess an analytical way of thinking and the ability to explain difficult concepts to non-technical users, be a self-starter and have a positive can-do attitude.  As we are a diverse and global team, flexibility in working timing is required.