Business Analyst

Kennedys is seeking a Business Analyst to join its Projects team in our Chelmsford or London office. The successful Business Analyst will ensure that structured analysis is undertaken on specific assignments to ensure that project and programme activity is effective in supporting business goals.

Team

Kennedys Projects Group is responsible for the delivery of projects across the global firm, working with all business services departments and all offices and legal teams.

They take projects from discovery through to benefits realisation, aligning with the Firm's strategic goals and offering expertise and experience to both Kennedys staff and clients

The group comprises project managers and business analysts, as well as a PMO function which drives project standards, practice and governance.

The Projects group is based in London and Chelmsford.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a member of the Kennedys Project Department, contributing to the delivery of projects in Kennedys
• Provide business analysis across a number of simultaneous projects at Kennedys
• Work within Kennedys best practice approach to analyse and capture requirements, to effectively deliver solutions that meet the business needs with Kennedys project stakeholders
• Work with the Kennedys Project Department to provide core business and systems analysis across a variety of project activities, to ensure that any development of solutions is aligned to the needs of the firm and designed to maximise the return on investment
• Define and provide testing, support and training guidance on new processes and systems as part of project delivery
• Develop key relationships across the firm to understand the existing applications and business processes, to capture requirements and gain greater business insight and understanding. In doing so become a trusted advisor to the business and develop the knowledge and business support to introduce system process improvements aligned to business needs.

Required experience

• Educated to degree level or with appropriate professional experience
• Knowledge of Excel and Visio and a Business Analysis toolset essential
• Ideally qualified or in an appropriate business systems analysis discipline e.g. ISEB, UML, BPMN etc.
• 2 years' experience of working in a Business Analyst role in a professional services business, with hands on experience of working on projects through a full lifecycle of initial requirements gathering and specification through to the acceptance and delivery of solutions/outcomes
• Experience in MS Teams and Teams Telephony services would be a definite advantage
• Excellent presentation, writing and documentation skills
• Legal sector experience ideal with requirements gathering exercises, process improvement and input to system functional design within the context of legal business systems
• Internal and external stakeholder management skills and can demonstrate ability to set and manage expectations of stakeholders
• Experience communicating with and working with IT professionals both in-house and third party
• Desire to deliver excellent solutions that meet business needs and to develop knowledge and expertise on a number of legal business solutions
• Capable of working across a number of business and technology areas
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with a variety of different stakeholders and users at all levels
• Good understanding of Microsoft technologies and ideally common legal technology solutions.

Benefits

• Matching pension scheme
• Fitness and wellness benefits
• Private medical insurance
• Corporate GP
• Life insurance and Income protection
• 35 hour working week
• Excellent resources via our online Learning Management System

About Kennedys

Business services and secretarial employees are integral to our success. We offer career opportunities for professionals with a variety of experience and responsibility. Our working environment is truly friendly and professional, and you will have a wide range of opportunities for career development. We are looking for ambitious, committed and enthusiastic people, no matter what your industry background.