Business Analyst (contract)

Are you a Business Analyst with experience in books or journals publishing looking for a new opportunity to join a thriving publishing solutions and consultancy business? You will bring business process experience and technical understanding to this 6-9 month fixed term contract position and will spend a significant amount of time working client side, mostly with publishers in London, Cambridge and Oxford.  The role can be home based when not visiting clients, but a London office is also available.

Key duties:

• Work closely with publishers to maintain up-to-date business knowledge and suggest business process improvements
• Identify and make recommendations for business process or system improvements aligned to changing business needs
• Collect, analyse and document business, functional and data requirements in order to define deliverables
• Work with product vendors, implementation partners, and technology teams to ensure delivery of robust technical specifications and solutions that meet requirements
• Produce supporting materials, help conduct training and support the business users during the system implementation
• Support the business product owner in order to ensure that all stakeholders’ needs are taken into account and correctly represented
• Secure buy-in from business and technology stakeholders and maintain this throughout the project lifecycle, in order reach successful completion and adoption

Experience / skills required:

• Established Business Analyst experience in publishing, ideally books or journals
• Experience working in a project delivery environment with Project Managers, business stakeholders, 3rd party vendors and other internal technology resources
• Strong analytical skills and knowledge of analysis principles, practices and techniques
• Understanding of project management principles both waterfall and agile
• Ability to present and communicate technology led opportunities to the business
• Highly organised, proactive and an adaptable, result-focussed self-starter
• A Business Analyst qualification is desirable but not essential

For further information, please apply online or email a CV and salary expectations to helenspeedy@atwoodtate.co.uk

Contact:             Helen Speedy

Tel:                    0203 574 4425

Atwood Tate embraces diversity and seeks to promote the benefits of diversity in all of our business activities and to develop a business culture that reflects that belief.  We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief.

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