Business Analyst

Job Description

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Business Analyst

About us

We are seeking talented people to help our customers scope, design and rollout capabilities and grow our existing team. This role will be focused on supporting our customers mission, protecting themselves and others from security risks and implementing new capabilities across a variety of ICT and operational technology (OT) systems.

About you

You have BA experience and appreciate what it means to work in a flexible Consulting team, where the tasks from day to day vary according to the differing shape and status of projects and customer needs. You are passionate about enabling customers to achieve their goals and working with your team to get things done. 

About the role

You will be responsible for:

• Identification and documentation of stakeholders and their needs and drivers
• Facilitating scoping and business priority setting for small, medium or large capability changes, engaging stakeholders as required
• Eliciting and authoring scoping document business requirements, system requirements and business processes.
• Capture and evaluation of both ‘pain points’ and ideas for improvement, prioritising possible improvements and obtaining buy-in for an improvement plan
• Taking an active role in stakeholder workshops
• Supporting business development teams as needed, contributing to consulting elements of client responses
• Authoring relevant business change-related materials to support rollout of new capabilities
• Research into potential tools clients may need to satisfy requirement
• Working with engineering teams to ensure they get the information they need from business stakeholders
• Highlighting potential opportunities for business growth
• Contributing to the development of others and the internal Consulting practice
• Maintaining an awareness of the various BAE Systems capabilities

Functional requirements

• Must hold a NV1 or higher clearance, ideally NV2 or PV
• Be willing to obtain NV2 and potentially PV clearance. 

Key skills and experience

• Previous Business Analysis experience including:
  • Authoring of different levels of requirements
  • Engaging with takeholders of different types, seniority etc
  • Running meetings/workshops to elicit information, demonstrate systems etc
  • Creation of various artefacts to communicate concepts that are well structured, appropriate for the audience and tell the story in a concise and logical way
  • Working with engineering teams as part of coherent project delivery
• Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences when engaging with colleagues or users/customers
• Has attention to detail, is proactive and organised
• Is flexible, willing to get involved in a variety of tasks with different people across different projects or internal tasks
• Demonstrable stakeholder management and engagement experience 
• Takes responsibility for delivering outputs, including work packages and small projects
• Shares knowledge and expertise with others
• Is able to respond to setbacks in an agile and resilient manner
• Maintains an awareness of developing practices and their applicaion and takes responsibility for driving own development

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Financial Services

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and the financial sector is one of the biggest targets for cyber-attacks. Our Financial Services business unit is responsible for all of our clients in the financial sector and handle all areas of these relationships. The Financial Services Division helps banks, insurers and other major financial institutions to combat fraud, unauthorised trading and money laundering, and meets their regulatory compliance obligations.

As a member of the Financial Services business unit, you will be responsible for providing critical services to clients in the financial sector and ensure that we remain a leading name in cyber security. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.