Business Analyst FastTrack Job in Loughborough Recruiting by The Access Group

Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality!Our core value of ‘Love Work, Love Life, Be You’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about?At Access, we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from the Hospitality sector, to Manufacturing industry, to Not for Profit’s to Construction, and many more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business, currently helping over 60,000 customers to have the freedom to do more. About you:As a Business Analyst, you are expected to have experience in formulating product solutions for internal and external stakeholders. This involves investigation, evaluation and specification of the problem and solution. The Business Analyst represents the customer and their needs throughout the product development cycle and is accountable for ensuring the product developed meets the agreed functional needs. You will be part of the Product Team, working closely with Engineering team following agile principles to deliver the functional needs. This role will be heavily focused around Payroll Tax compliance for the United Kingdom. This will involve analysing compliance changes and implementing any such changes with the engineering teams. Day-to-day, you will: •Develop functional requirements documents and/or Initiatives/EPICS, User Stories based on feedback from internal stakeholders and customers. •Collaborate with Engineering teams to; •Design solutions, with consideration of commercial viability and impact on product and other business objectives. •Define priority of product backlog in order to deliver maximum outcomes within minimum output. •Attend functional review sessions and answer questions the engineering team may have during the build process and to ensure that the backlog items were satisfactorily delivered. •Attend sprint planning and conduct grooming sessions to ensure the functional requirements are clearly understood by the Engineering Team. •Prepare product documentation and assist in development of training materials to support internal and external customers. This includes but is not limited to Online Help, What’s New Guides, Show Me How guided help and release notes. •Support sales engagements, including demonstrations and investigating gaps and possible solutions to support winning business. •Planning and supporting the delivery teams and requirements analysis: highlights omissions and gaps; proactively contributes to discussions; and understands the scope, risk, and complexity of the changes by challenging and providing feedback to the stories and acceptance criteria. •Supports the team objectives in the sprint and champions agile practises/processes. •Update and maintain key systems ., Target Process and follow the Access Engineering processes. •As an SME you will be expected to pass on your knowledge and skills to new and/or junior members within the Product & Engineering and IT Operations team. Your skills and experiences might also include: •Specific operational knowledge payroll software applications with UK compliance coverage. •Sound understanding of the software Development Life Cycle. •Strong experience in writing business cases, elicitation of business requirements and process mapping. •High level of computer literacy, with Microsoft Project, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, JIRA, or similar work management platform. •Demonstrable effective interpersonal, presentation, selling, negotiation and communication skills (written & verbal). •Technical skills with Microsoft Tech Stack including .Net, SQL Server. •Expert Payroll compliance knowledge covering UK payroll tax law.•Experienced in conducting workshops in order to gather business requirements. •Experienced at balancing between being strategic and attending to the hands-on detail and processes. •Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to present credibly and concisely to influence a diverse group of stakeholders. •Highly beneficial; •Experience in information systems operations environment in systems analysis or development. •Experience working within an Agile and/or Lean team delivery environment. •Expert experience working within the Atlassian suite of technology tools. •Knowledge on Recruitment Industry including Payroll/Billing. •Sharing/mentoring product and technical knowledge to other team members. •Experienced in working with key industry groups in Australia, New Zealand, UK, . Asia, and other regions, such as Australian & New Zealand Payroll Association, ABSIA, ATO, HMRC in the United Kingdom. What does Access offer you?We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We pride ourselves on being an organisation that gives back so you’ll also have a charity day you can take to support something that matters to you.