A leading global law firm with a rich history are now looking for a Business Analyst to join on a 12-month fixed term contract basis.

The role:

Leading requirements analysis, definition, validation and verification, ensuring that requirement statements or user stories are complete, traceable and unambiguous; as well as proportionate and truly useful.
Creating process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction where required for delivery.
Collaborating with project sponsors to determine project scope / vision and help inform project artefacts relating to these such as a business case
Eliciting requirements using interviews, workshops, use cases, scenarios and other techniques; or develop requirements from UX designs.
Managing, prioritising and enhancing user requirements or product backlogs as appropriate, using change control processes where necessary
Preparing clear and concise documentation, and supporting materials in relation to specific projects

Skills and experience:

Experience as a Business Analyst with a proven track record of successful project delivery in a professional services company, ideally a law firm.
Experience of gathering and managing technical details and requirements or user stories and acceptance criteria
Able to learn, understand and challenge current business processes and help to model new processes/ procedures
Experience in a business analyst role on customer-facing technology projects with an application development or software product development scope within both agile and waterfall methodologies
Working with cloud based technologies, preferably MS Azure
Excellent analytical skills
Able to listen to and understand customer requirements
Able to operate within a project brief, reporting to the Project Manager as required
Good knowledge of testing approaches/methods including automation and deployment pipelines.
Awareness/exposure to different software development life cycles and methods
Producing high level solutions/approaches, requiring systems analysis and design skills
Assisting with research and evaluation of software solutions from 3rd party suppliers and production of necessary deliverables such as tender documents, liaising with suppliers
Able to manage small projects from inception to delivery

Desirable:

A good technical background
Experience of working on digital projects
Working knowledge of different analysis techniques/methods, including requirements definition and specification, ERD/DFDs etc.
Familiarity with MS DevOps
Strong requirements elicitation skills
Familiar with business application components and application migration
Working within a structured project framework but also able to adapt and change and self-start in less certain environments
Knowledge of legal back office systems such as Document Management, HR and Practice Management systems
Familiar with MS Office for documentation
Knowledge of Web technologies and n-tier architecture
Knowledge of client-server architecture
RDBMS understanding (MS SQL Server)
Familiar with Windows 10
Familiar with ITIL, Prince 2, Agile