Business Analyst

Location(s):

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Location: London - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Grade: GG09 - GG10

Referral Bonus: 5000

• Lead non‑complex requirements gathering, process analysis and improvement and data analysis to produce key outputs and artefacts for clients, under the general direction of the team leader and other senior colleagues. Will escalate when issues fall outside of their area of responsibility.
• Apply appropriate techniques and evaluation tools, supported by senior colleagues, to non‑complex work in both Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Facilitate elements of workshops and meetings with clients to identify issues, opportunities and explore complex business problems relating to the client’s area of change.
• Have a clear understanding of the client’s organisation and goals and will play an active and impactful part in delivering value as part of a team.
• Influence customers, suppliers and partners at the working‑level, forming strong relationships.
• Plan and monitor own work competently within the deadlines set.

In addition to their work on client‑facing projects, our Business Analysts are expected to make a varied contribution to the business through the Discipline and/or Business Unit. Examples of contribution include:

• Continuous improvement of our business – Leading non‑complex process improvements and efficiencies, including collaborating with others on improvement activities within the Discipline, Account or Business Unit.
• People and leadership – coaching junior staff and giving feedback to peers and colleagues, including upwards management, and taking responsibility for own development and performance. Will support new joiners to the organisation and arrange opportunities to network across the organisation to contribute to relationship building and knowledge sharing.
• Client development – developing and using their understanding of our clients and BAE Systems’ market offerings to build relationships and trust, potentially leading to the extension of their own delivery role and others’, to widen the scope of engagement. Will work on bid development to contribute to growth, support recruitment and onboarding, maintain internal and external networks and represent the company at external events.
• Enhancing our collective knowledge supporting the curation and dissemination of tools and methodologies, effectively harnessing existing knowledge and collateral where possible and sharing this wider than the project.

• Investigates customers’ operational needs and problems and opportunities, recommending improvements in automated and non‑automated components of new or changed processes and activities.
• Evaluates and reconciles information gathered from multiple sources.
• Decomposes high‑level information into details as well as abstracting from low‑level information to a general understanding.
• Supports the preparation of reports, inputs into business cases and client deliverables to share findings and recommendations.
• Leads the development of specifications and models for non‑complex IT systems or software, assisting with testing new solutions.

• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for small‑scale changes and assists with more complex change initiatives.
• Follows agreed standards and applies appropriate techniques to elicit and document detailed requirements. Provides constructive challenge to stakeholders as required. Reviews requirements for errors and omissions.
• Prioritises requirements and documents traceability to source.
• Provides input to the requirements baseline/backlog. Investigates, manages and applies requests for changes to requirements, in line with change management…