Intermediate Business Analyst

About The Role

Hippo is looking for experienced Business Analysts to join us as Intermediate Consultants.

If you have some experience in business analysis and have worked on Agile projects, this could be a great next step for you.

You’ll be able to take complicated business problems and what users need and turn them into clear instructions for the services or products we create.

Hippo offers exciting chances to use your experience in a supportive place and develop your skills as a leader.

• Look closely at problems and suggest different ways to improve services and products, giving clear and helpful advice.

• Plan and run meetings (workshops), build strong, lasting relationships, and make sure everyone agrees on the same goals.

• Write down and study how businesses work, finding ways to make them more efficient.

• Use information and data to help you figure things out, explaining your business decisions clearly.

• Work with designers to create and test early versions of products, making sure they meet people's needs.

• Gather and make clear what’s needed for a project, turning them into simple instructions for the team.

• Work with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to keep track of what the team will work on.

• Help with testing the product to make sure it works for users.

• Encourage the use of Agile business analysis methods to deliver useful things quickly to users and clients.

• Give advice and support to colleagues and other members of the flexible project team.

• Share good ideas and ways of working with other Business Analysts at Hippo.

• Be willing to travel occasionally to meet clients for projects.

Analytical and critical thinking

We're looking for someone who:

• Looks carefully at information from different places and can figure out what it means and suggest what to do.

• Confidently shares what they've found with the project team and other people involved, using facts and evidence.

• Can answer questions from people, with some support from the team.

It would also be great if you:

• Can manage information from different places within a project team.

• Can use data to help with your clear thinking.

Requirements Gathering and Management

We're looking for someone who:

• Helps to figure out what's needed for a project using different methods and can choose the best method to use.

• Helps to make sure the team has a clear understanding of what needs to be done and keeps the project plan updated.

It would also be great if you:

• Can decide which things on the project plan are most important.

• Can help set up how the team will decide what needs to be done and keep track of it.

User-Centred Design

You'd be a great fit if:

• You work well with designers and can give your input on their work.

• You understand how talking to users can help decide what's needed for a project and can help with those user research sessions.

It would also be great if you:

• Can influence how design decisions are made, such as how user research is done or how the product looks.

Modelling Methods and Techniques

We're looking for someone who:

• Can use different ways to show how things work and choose the best way to use.

• Can find, measure, and understand ways to make business processes better or identify problems.

It would also be great if:

• You help others understand how to use these methods.

Working with Clients

You'd be a great fit if:

• You research and understand what's important to clients and use this to suggest what we should offer them.

• You can find common ground with other team members to work well together.

• You build on your relationships with clients to find out what challenges they need to overcome.

• You understand the goals of Hippo, our clients, and the projects you're working on.

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric…