Business Analyst - Newcastle

Business Analyst

Location: Newcastle Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) at the point of application. Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement

Hybrid Working: Please note - This role will require you to work from our Newcastle, Cobalt Business Park office 3 days per week.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services.

With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

As a Business Analyst, you will:

Bridge the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, elicit requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders

Create functional designs, sequence diagrams, process flows, business rules catalogues and product backlog items to agree detailed requirements with client product owners and clearly communicate what needs to be developed and tested to the feature teams.

Identify, analyse and complete complex business impact assessment across multiple business streams to understand the impact of the product/change

Prepare and co-ordinate business activities to support large implementations

Ensure business is operationally ready to support the target operating model

Lead business change activities, building comms and designing training plans to support change

Supporting Testing with reviewing scripts, triaging defects and assisting with test queries

As a Business Analyst at Senior Analyst and Consultant Career Levels you will;

Have the ability and expertise to operate independently in a high impact customer facing role

Be able to take our customers on the journey of requirements identification and elicitation

Have the experience and skill set to integrate closely with both business and technology teams and create a holistic vision of the solution that enables successful delivery

Work closely with solution architects and technical architects to develop solutions to our customers problems

Have experience coaching and leading junior Business Analysts

Have a solid understanding of the range of Business Analysis tools and techniques and be able to demonstrate experience of their use

Have experience of shaping innovative solutions to problems.

proven record of successful delivery and problem solving and taking others on that journey

Have experience of leading on innovative solution design.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

Establishing and implementing mechanisms to measure and deliver benefits

Ensuring that maximum improvements are made in existing and new business operations as groups of projects deliver their products into operational use

Utilising one or more structured techniques for solution design such as Design Thinking, UML or BPMN

The ability to understand business change needs, and can assess the business impact of those changes, capturing, analysing and documenting requirements

Utilising one or more tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio or Excel

Can demonstrate an understanding of and practical experience with either an Agile or Waterfall delivery

Experience in delivering change in a number of industry areas, including the Public Sector.

Set yourself apart:

Hold a professional BA Certification.

Experience in working in Scrum, capturing and generating User Stories

Experience in preparing affected business areas for transition to new ways of working

What’s in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications 31st December 2024

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.