Business Analyst

Weightmans is a Top 45 law firm with offices throughout the UK. Having been recognised as the leading legal employer at the annual Britain's Top Employers awards and achieved record rankings in Chambers UK 2017, we are immensely proud of the work we carry out for our clients and the culture we provide to our people.

Our Business Change team is a dedicated team responsible for the delivery of projects aimed at driving efficiency, improving quality and enhancing value for our clients.

Reporting to the Business Change Director, the role holder will assist with the delivery of business change / projects / operational excellence and efficiency within Weightmans.  The role holder will be responsible for all aspects of running small scale projects within the Business as well as contributing to larger scale initiatives.  The role holder will help to promote consistency, efficiency and quality in all project activities.

Detailed duties and responsibilities

• Communicating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of a project

• Liaising with business managers and end users to understand and document business processes, workflows and requirements

• Facilitate business managers and end users undertaking business change activities

• Appraising the impact of suggested changes on affected business areas

• Ability to translate business requirements into something that can be understood at all levels of a project from end users to software developers

• Translating client requirements into highly specified project briefs

• Planning and managing the implementation of small scale projects

• Planning and managing the implementation of agile application developments

• Ensuring business solutions are aligned with the IS Business Strategy

• Undertake the production of business cases and feasibility studies

• Providing regular reports to the Business Change Director showing progress against outstanding milestones.

• Develop and maintain knowledge on best of breed business analysis standards, tools, methods and techniques

Technical skills

• Workshop facilitation

• Requirements elicitation

• Process/workflow mapping

• BPMN

• Excellent communication skills

• Knowledge of the legal sector

• Experience with a case management system

• Experience of an agile software development methodology

• Lean Six Sigma knowledge / certification desirable

• BCS Diploma in Business Analysis desirable

Please note:

• Any reference to experience or PQE in our adverts or job descriptions is to be used as a guideline only. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and with different levels of experience who can demonstrate that they fulfil the requirements of the role.

• The successful candidate appointed to this role will be subject to our standard background checking process, and any offer of employment made is conditional upon successful completion of those checks. Further details can be obtained from the Recruitment team.