Business Data Analyst - Haywards Heath, United Kingdom - Eden Smith Group

Description

Job Description

Business Analyst - Data & Analytics

West Sussex or Manchester, hybrid with 1 day per week required in the office

£35,000 - £54,000 per annum basic salary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well established, leading organisation in the Insurance and technology sector, renown for its outstanding working culture.

You will make a strong candidate if you:

• Are highly collaborative and enjoy building relationships with stakeholders from a diverse range of disciplines.
• Possess proven experience as a data and analytics 'translator' in either data platforms (data warehouses, data lakes and data ingestion), Business Intelligence/Analytics or Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
• You enjoy taking responsibility for delivery and working in a fast-paced organisation where change is a constant. Learning, evolving, adapting. When the data speaks, we listen.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing clear, robust, and accurate data specific user stories and requirements.
• Conducting thorough data business analysis, including challenging perceptions and embedded thinking, to ensure that data requirements move the business forward and achieve outcomes.
• Facilitate workshops and deliver presentations to capture requirements and generate feedback.
• Act as an internal consultant, interpreting user requests and where appropriate, making suggestions for better/alternative ways of obtaining and presenting the required information.
• Create wireframes, mock-ups and POCs as part of the requirements process to validate needs and feasibility.
• Apply agile and lean practices into all aspects of your work, seeking to optimise flow and reduce wait time wherever possible.
• Agree business data definitions as part of the requirement process, that inform both the technical design and support the implementation of the data governance standards.
• Create data mapping artefacts, including definition of transformations required, to inform the design and build process.
• Become a trusted Data SME for the data subject areas and business domains in which you work.
• Work alongside data engineering to quickly address points of clarification, iterate requirements, and facilitate business engagement where necessary.
• Actively support the testing process, ensuring traceability of requirement to solution, and helping to co-ordinate and deliver user acceptance testing.
• Support Business Analysts in other parts of the business around data specific requirements analysis methods and practices.
• Adhere to the Company values at all times and encourage others to demonstrate these.
• Ensure compliance with company and other relevant standards/regulations at all times.

Job Specific Competencies:

Experience required:

• A strong background in data requirement elicitation using agile practices, and broad understanding of data visualisation, data engineering and data governance.
• Experience of planning and facilitating workshops of varying size.
• Experience of influencing and managing stakeholders, with the ability to communicate key messages across multiple areas of the business.
• Experience of analytics platforms such as PowerBI, Tableau, Qliksense etc
• Experience in creating data user stories as part of agile delivery methods.
• Use of collaboration and agile software management tools such as Confluence, Azure DevOps, Jira.
• Good grounding in agile software change practices, ideally in a data function.

You will need to be:

• Outcome focussed and results driven.
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
• Embrace, embeds and incorporates the Company values.
• Pro-active, and comfortable taking the initiative.
• Resilient and flexible with the ability to work iteratively.
• A positive attitude with a focus on how outcomes might be achieved.
• Focussed on improvement of processes and oneself.
• Desire to work in a fast-growing, fast-paced environment.
• Life-long learning – you have a drive to learn and continually develop your skills and abilities.