Business Analyst

Business AnalystFull-time Department: Public Sector & Utilities (Ireland) Company DescriptionVersion 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services. We're an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do: • UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner • 3300+ strong, 350/£300m revenue business • 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK • Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW • Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW We're a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it's deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we'll invest in you!. Job Description • Proactively arrange and conduct meetings, workshops and presentations for a variety of audiences, demonstrating consistently high quality communication, elicitation and persuasive skills. • Analyse alternative solutions and make recommendations. • Document and map complex business processes and solutions using standard procedures, methods and tools • Identify areas for improvement, specify requirements and implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of current business processes. • Perform root cause analysis of problems and work closely with business users in order to identify and translate their needs into solution designs and systems specifications. • Produce detailed Business Requirement Specification Documents and liaise with all stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood and signed off prior to development commencement. • Communicate in a clear and concise fashion to technical and business staff (including senior managers) at all stages of the project lifecycle to gain commitment and minimize the level of resistance to change. • Support UAT during all phases of testing to ensure requirements as detailed in the Business Requirement Specification document have been delivered and are ready for release. • Work with IT & Business when new functionality is released to production to ensure a smooth transition to the new process. Qualifications • Proven experience in a Business Analyst role • Strong documentation skills, in particular writing detailed requirements specification documents in English for use by development and test teams • Has worked on both large scale and smaller projects and been responsible for defining and designing business solutions • Good project management skill with ability to plan and schedule own work and work towards tight deadlines. • Experience in Waterfall and/or Agile project methodology, experience in both beneficial Please note: This role is only open to candidates based in Northern Ireland. Additional InformationWhy Version 1? At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability. • Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits • Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme • Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people's individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance • Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme • Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies • Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat • Reward schemes including Version 1's Annual Excellence Awards & 'Call-Out' platform. • Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes. And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more. Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity. We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially. #LI-EB1 #LI-Hybrid