Senior Business Analyst

The successful candidate will be part of a team of Business Analysts who form part of the broader Linklaters’ Projects and Change Delivery group. The Business Analysis team are a high performing, supportive and inclusive team, working on global business change and technology programmes and projects in close collaboration with lawyers and other Business Teams.

• The Senior Business Analyst is a highly experienced and capable analyst, leading the BA activities on the most complex, high profile and business critical projects and programmes. Comfortable working directly with senior stakeholders across Business Teams, lawyers (including partners) and third-party suppliers.

• Engage in Business Analysis to the highest standards across the full project lifecycle covering problem statement definition, requirements management, process mapping, business change analysis, operating model design, data and financial analysis and running UATs.

• Work collaboratively to understand and define scope / objectives / benefits of new projects / programmes and agree BA deliverables along with timeframe for delivery.

• Run large and complex workshops with diverse stakeholder groups, in person, virtually or a hybrid format. Elicit requirements within Waterfall or Agile methodologies and document functional and non-functional requirements.

• Support any third party selection processes by providing the business requirements.

• Promote the value of Business Analysis across the firm and why the role is pivotal to the successful outcome of a project / initiative. Advocate and conduct knowledge sharing across the BA Team.

Your experience

• 5+ years of Business Analysis experience with experience working across large and complex projects and programmes spanning multiple geographical locations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to confidently communicate with the business at all levels of seniority in their language and translate these conversations to technology teams (and vice versa). Proven experience of working with a wide range of business stakeholders including heads of function or lawyers / Partners.

• Significant experience of a wide variety of business analysis industry knowledge, methods and tools, including Azure DevOps, Mural, Visio, Tableau, Power BI, Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Business Process Modelling Notation, Waterfall and Agile Delivery, UAT test scripts, Workshops and RFPs.

• Comfortable and adept at dealing with ambiguity, conflicting priorities, complex and technical information with an ability to flex style as needed to communicate clearly and concisely.

• Strong documentation, processing mapping, listening. questioning and process mapping skills. A background of working on financial process or process optimisation projects would be useful.

Linklaters and the Team

Linklaters are a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people  who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set.

We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Key Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

• Private medical care

• Free in-house fitness centre

• Life insurance

• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel

• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card

• Wide range of training opportunities

What sets us apart

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business

• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment and governance responsibility commitments

• We celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work

• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to

• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations

• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business

• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect and appreciation

• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed

• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others