Junior Business Analyst Ruislip, Middlesex £18k (p.a)

The B&S Group is a privately-owned pharmaceutical company which manufactures and distributes pharmaceutical and healthcare products to the UK market. Established in 1999 we offer a wide range of products and services which includes specials, generic drugs, branded medicines, parallel trade and over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. Having undergone two acquisitions since 2010, we are continuing to strengthen and grow.

We now have a requirement for Junior Business Analyst

If you enjoy evaluating and analyzing data, creating solutions, working with a variety of people and have a good grasp of information technology, a career as a business analyst could be for you.
As a business analyst you'll work within an organisation, helping to manage, change and plan for the future in line with their goals. This could be for one specific project, or as a permanent feature of the organisation. You'll need to understand the current organizational situation, identify future needs and create solutions to help meet those needs, usually (but not always) in relation to information and software systems.

You'll need to demonstrate excellent understanding of the way the organisation works as you'll be helping the organisation to develop its functions, services and products to meet goals with internal and external stakeholders.

You'll also play a key role in communicating between internal departments and external parties, acting as a 'translator' where necessary to convey how information technology can support the organization's needs.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Gather business requirements by successfully engaging the various stakeholders across the business
• Maintaining updates to legislation, regulatory & other platforms
• Review of qualitative data generated during documentation writing and application development to ensure compliance to GMP and GDP
• Facilitate the resolution of issues and / or areas of contention between stakeholders
• Translate business requirements into functional requirements for technical teams
• Create required user stories and progress to approval with the relevant stakeholder/s
• Deliver requirements on time and as per agreed formats
• Document existing business processes and work flows
• Develop formats of documents and tools to enable others to follow defined processes in a consistent manner
• Identify risks and take appropriate actions when risks require escalations
• Determine interdependencies between tasks and investigate, presenting recommendations for review
• Analyse processes and data to draw out insights and make recommendations to address business issues
• Assist in managing the resolution of BAU issues reported to the team, including requirements gathering, scoping the required change/s and completing functional UAT
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders on requirement gathering, testing and approval/s
• Complete pre and post implementation check lists and reviews
• Highlight lessons learnt from previous projects and recommend improvements for future projects
• To write reports, SOPs and other documentation when required.

TECHNICAL SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE

• A proven track record of having worked in project teams including the business requirements elicitation phase
• Ability to translate business requirements to functional requirements and interact with technical teams
• Possesses a good understanding of IT architecture and engineering
• Basic understanding of different Project Management methodologies and concepts
• Ability to design and execute basic UAT programmes
• Working across multiple business functions to capture and refine requirements
• Understanding of project management approaches, specifically Agile, Scrum, Sprint, Waterfall