Business Analyst Continuous Improvement

The future of energy is digitised, decarbonised and localised. At Smartest Energy, we need revolutionary thinkers to help our customers make the most of this new landscape, thinking differently to find smart solutions to complex problems.

Join us and help power the revolution.

Formed in 2001, we're an agile business driven by entrepreneurial thinking. As a subsidiary of the Marubeni Corporation, we also have strong investment and infrastructure behind us. We have three offices in the UK, one in the US and another in Australia. Further expansion will follow shortly which means big global career opportunities for you, with plenty of potential to explore new markets.

When you join our Team, you will have the opportunity to contribute and make an impact every single day.

Overview

Reporting to the Team Manager / Snr BA Continuous Improvement the Business Analyst Continuous Improvement, supports the wider business in the implementation of IT projects and is the link between the business and IT. Playing a pivotal part in ensuring that business requirements are fed back into the project team and converted into functional specifications.

In this role, you will be involved with the following:

• Conducting interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, workflow storyboards, use cases scenarios and other methods.
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders, project and application maintenance team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
• Contribute to the implementation of the system.
• Test the newly implemented systems and features.
• Support delivery of the Continuous Improvement projects and workstreams.
• Deliver project tasks on time and to a high standard.
• Employee satisfaction survey.

To be successful in this position, you are likely to have the following skills/experience :

• Work experience in an Architecture, Design, Development or Business Analyst position.
• Experienced in applying modelling languages to analyse and document designs.
• Hands-on software development and design experience in complex information system context.
• Experience in setting up automated software development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical and structured way of thinking, high organizational skills and IT affinity.
• Lean/Six Sigma Continuous Improvements experience focusing on delivering operational improvements and cost savings.
• Knowledge of the technical, environmental, and planning constraints surrounding the development of retail and renewable energy, decentralized and flexible generation projects.
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages is an asset.
• Knowledge of analysis methodologies and UML are advantages.
• Knowledge of Lean Practitioner & Lean Leader tools and techniques.
• Working knowledge of standard Microsoft Office products.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Visio is preferable.
• Trusted and respected as a thought leader who can influence and persuade business and IT leaders.
• Comfortable, experienced, and accomplished at working with business executives, and able to push back in a professional and diplomatic way.
• Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.
• Vendor- and technology-neutral - more interested in business outcomes than in personal, or those business and IT leaders with vested personal preferences.
• Unflappable in the face of opposition to change ideals.
• Practical in approach to decision making and problem solving that is principle-based.
• Can-do attitude.

What else do we offer?

• A genuine commitment to smarter working - we recognise your work/life balance matters;
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community;
• Excellent benefits package including private medical insurance/dental cover and non-contributory pension from month three;

Diversity

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to what we do. We value everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive we need diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the countries in which we operate. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location.

Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and please don't let anything stop you from applying.

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