Job Description

About the role

The Guinness Partnership is recruiting for a Junior Business Analyst to join the Business Analysis Practice team on permanent contract. This is a full time, 35 hours per week role based at our Oldham office. We offer hybrid working, blending office days with working from home.

The purpose of this role is to develop and support end-to-end business analysis activities, delivering benefits across the change portfolio.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a Business Analyst with strong requirements management, process modelling, and data analysis skills. You will be confident working in agile, iterative, or waterfall environments, engaging stakeholders, facilitating workshops, and communicating insights effectively. Excellent Microsoft 365 skills and the ability to turn complex information into clear, actionable outcomes are essential.

You will be able to demonstrate these essential skills:

• Business Analysis experience and prior coverage of delivering in either waterfall, iterative or agile environments.
• Experience of requirements management through the software delivery lifecycle, in the form of epics and user stories.
• Experience of business process modelling using MS Visio.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; experience of analysing data to identify issues and trends.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively facilitate.
• Excellent written, numerical, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 tools.
• Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.

Desirable skills:

• Experience of core housing business processes.
• Experience of BPMN 2.0 to complete business process modelling.
• Proficient in use of software delivery and collaboration tools e.g., Dev Ops and MS Teams.
• Experience of different project delivery methods e.g. waterfall / iterative / agile.

Essential qualifications:

• Educated to A level standard or equivalent.

Desirable qualifications:

• IT or Business related degree.
• Partial (or working towards) BCS Diploma in Business Analysis.
• Process re-engineering / improvement accreditation e.g. Lean or Lean Six Sigma.

If you’re interested in joining us and would like to apply for this role, please review the role profile to view all of the key responsibilities and to ensure you meet the essential criteria.

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The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services for nearly 160,000 residents nationwide. Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our residents, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.