Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration:  Up to 18 month FTC

Location:  Gloucester

Job Ref: 203126

About the role

Benefact Group, are looking for a Business Analyst to join our Gloucester office.

The Technology Analysis and Product (TAP) Team is a dynamic team of talented Business Analysts and Product Owners within the Group Technology Department. This team operates across several Technology product teams, with some members also working on projects or mobilising new initiatives outside of existing Products. Our primary delivery method is Agile.

As a TAP Business Analyst you will be at the heart of our dynamic Scrum teams (and sometime project teams), working alongside talented professionals to drive innovation and deliver impactful technology solutions. You’ll play a crucial role in gathering requirements, supporting change, and ensuring we achieve the best outcomes for our products and services. 

Joining our rapidly expanding and innovative Group presents a fantastic opportunity to develop your career and become an integral part of an inclusive, purpose-led organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Elicitation of Requirements and/or User Stories: A key member of the Project/Scrum Team culminating in the production of well defined, well understood, high quality, unambiguous and consistent Requirements/User Stories. Participation in backlog refinement sessions to keep our product backlog sharp and prioritised.
  
• Documentation Produced to Required Standards: Ensure documentation, including user stories and acceptance criteria, meets the highest standards and is maintained accurately.
• Ability to Present to Stakeholders: Present findings, updates, and requirements/user stories effectively e.g. during sprint reviews and other Agile ceremonies.
• Builds Relationships:
• Self-managing: Plan, prioritise and manage your work effectively to deliver exceptional service.
• Continuous Improvement:
  
• Foster strong, collaborative relationships with team members and stakeholders, serving as a crucial link between the business and the change team to ensure alignment on requirements.
• Proactively cultivate successful internal and external relationships to support excellence in delivery.
• Maintain connections with relevant counterparts within business functions, actively contributing to the implementation of solutions.
  
• Personal: Embrace a growth mindset by taking ownership of your personal development, continuously improving your skills and knowledge.
• Team: Participate in continuous improvement reviews. Identify and lead opportunities to improve current methods, practices, and processes.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Demonstrable Business Analysis experience in a variety of change delivery environments, especially technology focused.
• A working knowledge of the principles and benefits of Agile and experience of working as Business Analyst in a Scrum team.
• Demonstrable Business Analysis experience in a variety of change delivery environments, especially technology focused.
• Relevant industry experience (preferably Financial Services & Insurance).
• Proficiency with Agile tools (preferably the Atlassian Suite of products Jira and Confluence).
• Excellent organisational, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with stakeholders at all levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (MS Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Familiarity with business process modelling tools (e.g., Visio) is a plus.
• A basic understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies (preferred).
• A flexible approach to work and a positive attitude, fully embracing and incorporating the company values.
• A clear appreciation of the need for exceptional standards of delivery and evidence of a strong commitment to delivering improved standards.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
  
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• Up to £300 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.  

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

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