Responsibilities
For Water Industry engagements:
Explore water industry assets and waste treatment processes to identify opportunities for time and cost savings.
Analyse identified opportunities for feasibility, potential cost and time savings, as well as other benefits such as technological enhancements and carbon reduction.
Assess costs, benefits, and risks associated with each opportunity in a detailed manner.
Provide recommendations for delivery routes for areas of opportunity.
Work closely with client to determine appropriate next steps for each asset based on the analysis, though no guaranteed progression. Conduct comprehensive research to identify potential opportunities, utilising robust analytical frameworks and tools including financial analysis, risk assessment, and feasibility studies.
Prepare detailed reports outlining findings and recommendations for the following focus areas. Reports should include clear descriptions of each opportunity, methodology used for analysis, results of analysis, and specific actionable recommendations.Current challenges in the water industry assets and waste treatment sector.Design and development opportunities for enhancing processes.Evaluation of existing products and competitors' solutions.Process improvement strategies.Enhancements to current designs for better efficiency.Identification of manufacturing opportunities in the sector.Developing delivery strategies to bring assets to fruition.
For general client engagements:
Research a client’s business model, strategy, and capabilities, understand their problems and their vision, goals and strategy Undertake stakeholder analysis, communication and engagement through all stages of change Run workshops using proven techniques for creating detailed business, functional and non-functional requirements Independently manage business analysis work for a client change, using empathy to work with client stakeholders and partners to develop insight and trust Investigate options, provide recommendations and roadmaps, create business cases, and other analysis documents required for the change project Ensure the solution/s is compatible with the client’s business, infrastructure, systems, data and security architectures, and its regulatory and commercial constraints Ensure the solution is focussed on customer value where the customer journey is impacted Identify opportunities for innovation, efficiency gain, and improvements to customer value and satisfaction, and employee ways of working, bring these to your stakeholder’s attention, and incorporate these into your work Elicit requirements from stakeholders to create requirement repositories, Users Story maps, and prioritised backlogs Process modelling and process improvement with an emphasis on efficiency and automation where possible Support the development and QA (test) teams with clear, signed-off requirements or user stories, and sufficiently detailed and decomposed acceptance criteria for all relevant scenarios, Provide the development and QA (test) teams supporting matrices and documentation for logical data models and data mapping with particular care for integrations, business rules, threshold criteria, UI/UX diagrams, state transition diagrams, non-functional constraints, etc Identify the impacts of a change on business teams, customers, and other change initiatives Help the business prepare for implementing a change by creating some or all of the following: a business readiness plan, business processes, customer journeys, training requirements, user guides or run-books, a service design, metrics and OKRs (objectives and key results), communications plans, and any relevant system-support Service Desk services Support UAT, run model office sessions where appropriate, and support hypercare where used Comply with Client project governance and reporting needs Manage client expectations to ensure that you can deliver for the project team and the business Work with and understand data, data flow and data mapping
For Expleo:
Network and work as part of multi-disciplinary teams, including Operations, Sales and Client Partners Identify opportunities for business development with the client Comply with Expleo governance related to sharing client knowledge and relationship management, reporting, raising issues, as well as capturing learning and case studies for clients Support the Sales team, contribute to bid responses Share your knowledge and experience with other team members Volunteer for Business Solutions Team practice development .: develop a new proposition, create and update Business Solutions service documentation, run a Lunch ‘n Learn Mentor other BAs, support team success and motivate others to keep morale and performance high
Qualifications
BCS Business Analysis International Diploma (or equivalent) A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
Essential skills
Expert knowledge in Water Industry Assets & Waste Treatment. Strong analytical skills to assess costs, benefits, and risks.
Ability to identify opportunities for process improvement and cost savings.
Proficiency in conducting thorough research and analysis using various tools.
Excellent communication skills to provide clear recommendations to stakeholders.
Detail-oriented with the ability to prepare comprehensive reports. Eliciting and managing requirements Process modelling High level data modelling Agile and waterfall SDLC frameworks, roles, responsibilities and ceremonies Problem analysis and operational excellence Financial Services sector experience Consulting experience preferred. Strong stakeholder management skills Demonstrable experience of delivering change using technology and soft skills.
Desired skills
Strong commercial and regulatory awareness Advanced MS Excel ability and working knowledge of MS PowerPoint, MS Visio (or similar process modelling tool) and MS Word Self-management, the ability to plan and organise your work to align with the client’s plan or milestone dates, by setting quantified goals and working to defined standards
Experience
Prior experience in the water industry.
What do I need before I apply
To be flexible to travel to, and work at, client sites across the UK as required
Benefits
Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses Competitive company benefits Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo