Business Analyst

The central Transformation Team at Clyde & Co have started on an exciting journey and are working to realise the firm's appetite for greater coordination and strategic focus across our current and future projects portfolio globally. This role plays a key part in continuing to establish credible relationships for the team across other areas of the business and ensuring projects and change initiatives meet objectives and realise benefits by increasing employee adoption and usage. It focuses on the people side of change, including changes to business processes, systems and technology, job roles and organisation., The role will gather and understand business requirements and ideas; consistently translate ideas and requirements into clearly articulated (and standard) definitions / mandates for projects; and ensure that approved projects remain on track to meet our requirements, align with strategy and realise the expected value. Strong business analysis skills (e.g. the ability to map and capture / define processes) are therefore essential. The role will help to manage the intake process for new operational change (be it projects or other initiatives), ensuring that it is effective and fully embedded in the business. In addition, it will work with the Global Head of Operational Projects & Change, Project Management Office and the Project Delivery Lead to continue building a structured and best practice approach to business analysis .,

• Elicit and manage business requirements across a variety of significant business-led operational projects and programmes.
• Assist with the production of business cases, e.g. identifying costs, benefits, impacts and risks.
• Produce and maintain clear, quality documentation that accurately, comprehensively and consistently captures and articulates requirements, for example business requirements definitions, requirements catalogues and process maps.
• Interface with our technical teams to ensure that technical solutions will meet business requirements and that the expected benefits and value are captured, understood, tracked and realised.
• Design, prepare and facilitate stakeholder workshops.
• Develop key relationships within business services departments and across the firm to understand and improve the existing services and business processes.
• Maintain and develop the intake process for new operational change (be it projects or other initiatives), ensuring that it is effective and fully embedded in the business.
• Work with the Business Analysts, Project Managers and central Project Management Office to establish a standard approach to business analysis as part of the firm's project management methodology.
• Work with service delivery teams to capture and direct service improvements changes that arise during day to day support operations.
• Work with trainers to ensure that the change impact is well understood and feeds into the training approach., Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.
The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services career development. They vary across levels and different business areas and fall under the following areas:
• Technical Excellence
• People and Team
• Client/Stakeholder Relationships
• Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness
  
  Proven experience in a comparable role in a professional environment.
• Professionally recognised qualifications in relation to business analysis or project management (e.g. ISEB, PRINCE2).
• Excellent knowledge of business analysis tools and techniques, including document analysis, process mapping, structured questioning, gap analysis and mind mapping, are essential.
• Excellent engagement skills, including interviewing, facilitating, mediating and presenting, are essential.
• Experience of building business cases, including identifying and categorising costs and benefits and identifying and shortlisting options for business change, is essential.
• Excellent stakeholder management and analysis skills are essential.
• Solid, practical understanding of project management techniques, methods and tools.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio is essential.
• Experience of using requirements management tools and systems is beneficial.
• Experience of legal processes and systems in a similar environment is desirable.
  
  Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.
Our Values Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and our firm. We:
• Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth