Business Analyst

Job Title:
Business Analyst

Job Description:

Role overview:

Accountable to the regional Lead Enterprise Architect, Market Enablement, the Business Analyst will work with the local market teams and global teams to understand the current market operating model, business requirements and supporting systems. They will document this current state maturity assessment, and work with the local market team to support the design of the evolved operating model and adoption of global tools, processes and standards.

The Business Analyst will be part of a small team responsible for surveying and designing the transformation programme needed for each market, to enable the transformation programmes to be properly scoped, costed, and efficiently delivered.

The Business Analyst will be expected to fully explore the current state operating model in a given market and support the architects and programme manager to "break trail" for the delivery programme to transform the market.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis

• Employ a range of tools and techniques to gather business and user requirements against the Target State Architecture. Determine the need and value of performing the activity based on the context. Employ a range of tools and techniques to map 'As-Is' and To-Be' business processes/capabilities
• Identify potential consequences of change and estimate what needs to be modified to accomplish that change and focuses on defining changes within the scope of the overall project design, to the requisite quality with appropriate level of effort
• Engages with requisite stakeholders to ensure business systems, workflows and processes contribute to target operating model/capability. Ensures that activities within project are mapped to ensure that they are delivered effectively and work in partnership with the Market enablement team s e.g. Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect and Programme Lead, to translate business needs into solutions, work with technical leads to ensure business needs are translated into the technical solutions
• Evaluates strengths and weaknesses of identified benefits and dis-benefits in line with project mandate
• Engages with business owners, business change managers, users and other identified key stakeholders, as required, to ensure alignment of project requirements and solution/capability design
• Work closely with Business Change Managers and improvement teams with identification of BAU enhancements and associated solutions to ensure that defined project outputs are delivered and benefits realised
• Provide advice and guidance to the project team on application of methodologies; operating model; functional specification; user cases; user stories; defect analysis; forms and templates appropriate for organisational context and project

Person Specification

Experience:

• B.A./B.S. degree (or comparable knowledge) in computer science (or a related field)
• c.5-10+ years experience of business analysis and related disciplines
• Working in a complex matrixed, international and cross-cultural organisation
• Broad technical expertise combined with strong leadership and communication capabilities to drive innovation and change

Other key Competencies:

• Experience of estimating change impact and effort
• Experience of investigating, assembling, validating and documentation of operating models in a structured manner
• Experience working with major SaaS platforms, integration and data analytics platforms, and understanding the opportunities and constraints imposed by globally delivered solutions
• Proven analysis competence and knowledge, in a cross-cultural, multinational environment

About dentsu international

Part of dentsu, dentsu international headquartered in London operates in over 145 markets worldwide with more than 48,000 dedicated specialists. We help clients to win, keep and grow their best customers and achieve meaningful progress for their businesses. With best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative. www.dentsu.com

Working with us

Joining dentsu international, you'll join a team of 48,000 people. It's an opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you'll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences. We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.

Inclusion and Diversity

We're proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won't define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That's what we care about. So, whether you're joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can't promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.

*Please note we are open to exploring this role with candidates based in locations across the EMEA region

Location:
Salford - One New Bailey

Brand:
Global Technology

Time Type:
Full time

Contract Type:
Permanent