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Business Analyst

Dalcour Maclaren
Bicester, GBR
Full-time
Mid · 4+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered Yesterday
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Key Responsibilities

  • Support discovery, as-is and to-be analysis, options analysis, and evaluation of innovation opportunities across the business.
  • Develop robust business cases for innovation initiatives, including assessment of costs, benefits, risks, dependencies, and expected business outcomes.
  • Work with stakeholders to elicit, document, prioritise, validate, and manage business requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.
  • Create and maintain user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, process maps, options assessments, business cases, and other project artefacts.
  • Research, evaluate, and compare suppliers, technologies, and solution options to support evidence-based decision-making.
  • Support agile and iterative delivery practices, including backlog refinement, prioritisation, sprint planning input, and clarification of user stories.
  • Support the planning, delivery, testing, validation, and evaluation of PoCs, PoVs and approved innovation initiatives.
  • Assist with rollout, adoption, and transition of approved initiatives, including assessing business impacts and readiness for change.
  • Define, track, and report on benefits, performance, outcomes, return on investment, and value measurement for innovation initiatives.
  • Facilitate workshops, meetings, and stakeholder engagement activities to gather insight, build consensus, and support decision-making.
  • Provide business analysis expertise and advice to the Innovation Team, senior leaders, and management teams while managing multiple priorities independently.

Skills and Experience

  • Minimum of 4 years' experience working as a Business Analyst, preferably within business transformation, innovation, technology, digital, or change-related environments.
  • Experience delivering as-is and to-be analysis, gap analysis, process mapping, requirements elicitation, and requirements management across the delivery lifecycle.
  • Experience developing business cases, options assessments, and recommendations, including financial analysis, benefits assessment, risks, and dependencies.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, actionable insights and practical recommendations.
  • Ability to define user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, business rules, and functional requirements in collaboration with stakeholders and delivery teams.
  • Experience supporting agile or iterative delivery practices, including backlog management, prioritisation, refinement, and clarification of requirements.
  • Experience supporting testing and validation activities, including test scenario input, user acceptance testing, issue resolution, and confirming solutions meet business needs.
  • Ability to assess and compare suppliers, products, technologies, and service offerings against business, user, technical, and commercial needs.
  • Understanding of benefits realisation principles and experience tracking and reporting measurable business outcomes, performance indicators, and return on investment.
  • Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and present recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities independently while working collaboratively across cross-functional teams.
  • Business Analysis certification, such as BCS, IIBA, or equivalent, is desirable but not essential.

Benefits

  • Annual bonus scheme
  • 25 days annual leave plus 1 day to celebrate your birthday
  • Vitality Health Membership (including Private healthcare, subsidised gym membership and other discounts)
  • Flexible working through our ‘Flexible Advantage’ supporting working families & your work/life balance
  • Pension Scheme via The Peoples Pension
  • Life insurance (4x Base Salary)
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • 26 Weeks paid Maternity Leave
  • 4 Weeks paid Paternity Leave
  • BHN Extras – provides discounted gift cards for hundreds of popular retailers
  • Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme (provided by Octopus Electric Vehicles) effective at 1 years’ service
  • Sabbatical Policy effective at 3 years’ service
  • Professional development – paid study leave
  • Military service paid leave (7.5 days per year)
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) plus wider Mental Health & Wellbeing support
  • 2 x Company-wide events every year, in addition to multiple office socials throughout the year
  • Dalcour Maclaren is an equal opportunities employer.

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