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Sword Group

Business Analyst

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In-Office
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
Entry level
In-Office
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, GBR
Entry level
Business Analyst responsible for gathering and analyzing requirements, translating them into use cases and deliverables, supporting IT project and product managers, and defining business intelligence needs. The role analyzes complex data, improves data quality and terminology standards, develops reports and visualizations, identifies process improvements, and presents data-driven insights to business stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
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Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving real transformation change within our clients.  We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data and business applications.  We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.

The role will involve working collaboratively with stakeholders to gather requirements, analyse data and deliver insightful solutions to enhance decision making processes and support smooth project delivery.

Here's what the role looks like:

  • Perform requirements analysis and gathering and executing/handing over them into delivery
  • Support Project / Product managers with delivery on IT based workstreams on requirements, capacity estimates and cost
  • Ability to analyse complex issues and transform into manageable deliverables including solution and services
  • Engage with business stakeholders and SMEs to capture and agree reporting and analytics requirements and provide guidance to the team
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define business intelligence needs and objectives
  • Analyzing data and generating meaningful reports to support strategic decisions
  • Identifying opportunities for process improvements through data analysis
  • Ensure consistent use of standard business terminology and data sources

Requirements
  • Experience as a Business Analyst with demonstrable experience delivering IT solutions around Business Intelligence and supporting project managers with delivery of work streams
  • Strong experience with requirements gathering and analysis
  • Experience in driving data quality, standardizing complex asset data
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets and issues
  • Strong analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to translate business requirements in to use cases (with descriptions, acceptance criteria, functional and on functional requirements)
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to present data driven insights to non technical audiences
  • An ability to present visualizations/reports in a business context to business stakeholders.

Benefits

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life.  In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package:

Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth.

Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.  We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can.

A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more…..

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement.  If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience.  We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.

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