We are recruiting for a Business Analyst to join our Business Change team in Bristol. 

The Business Analyst role is an internal consultancy role that has responsibility for investigating business systems and processes and identifying options for improvement. This is a key role in supporting management to exploit IT in order to obtain business benefit.
TLT is going through an exciting period of significant growth and development and has an ambitious programme of projects to transform the way that we work. We operate in a constantly changing environment.

TLT has a Programme Management Office (PMO) of dedicated business analysts and project managers, often augmented with external consultants, to manage and implement complex projects. PMO manages TLT’s internal major projects and the overall project portfolio at TLT.  TLT Business Analysts are key to ensuring successful outcomes by working with other Business Services teams (IT, Knowledge Management, Business Development, HR, Facilities) as well as fee earners on both discrete pieces of work and as part of project teams.

Your Role

As a Business Analyst your day to day remit includes:

• Produce robust business cases and support the production of project plans, resource requirements and delivery of products to enable the realisation of business benefits Use appropriate business analysis activities throughout the project lifecycle to achieve the required outcomes.
• Identify and deliver successful business analysis products within different business change frameworks and environments e.g. agile, waterfall, projects and programmes.
• Identify and document business requirements using a range of business analysis techniques including interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and task and workflow analysis.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal clients to analyse information, functional and non-functional requirements. 
• Drive and challenge business teams on their assumptions of how the solution will meet their needs.
• Be the liaison between the business units, technology and external suppliers. Serve as a link between the client and the project team.
• Work with requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria to create test scripts, plans and scenarios.
• Co-ordinate user acceptance tests ensuring participants undertake test duties to established standards.
• Support peers and junior team members to deliver business analysis products of a high standard throughout the project lifecycle.
• To proactively support project managers to manage, plan, structure and lead projects. Take responsibility for delivery and support the enforcement of project deadlines and schedules.

As the need arises, there may be occasions where this role may, for example, be required to carry out other tasks that would more often be the responsibility of the project manager and it is an expectation that all at TLT will be flexible to ensure successful delivery.

Your Skills and Experience

Core skills

• Strong analytical and problem solving ability, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret the (predominantly internal) client's business needs and translate them into business/operational requirements. 
• Ability to extract and document business processes and identify where improvements can be made.
• Excellent excel, good visio and Microsoft Office skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to adapt to different working styles to get the most out of the team and project contributors.
• Good technical understanding (role is business focused not IT focused).
• Self-starter with good time management skills, ability to prioritise conflicting deadlines and expectations.
• Evaluate information gathered and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs. Work with the client to identify required changes.
• Document the results of business analysis, for example workflows, obtaining sign-off from clients on the As-Is and To-Be process or solution.
• Document use cases or user stories, analysing requirements and agreeing their priority with clients and stakeholders, including evaluating a minimum viable product for the proposed solution. 
• Identify and track measures needed to realise the benefits from the project.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts (e.g. developers, solution and technical architects) to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and functional/performance.
• Review and update requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations related to proposed solut