This is a remote position.
Rate: £33 per hour (Umbrella)
Contract Length: 3 - 6 months
Hours per week: 37 hours
Location: Fully-remote
WHAT IS THE JOB ROLE?
As a Business Analyst you will explore, analyse, validate, and specify required amendments to software features and functions, used by key customers in local government in the billing and collection of non-domestic rates. You will be engaging with customers and internal teams to develop and understand challenges and requirements, working with government and legislative bodies to ensure compliance within the product. Working as a member of a domain focused team of Product Managers and Business Analysts, you will enjoy support from a knowledgeable and skilled team, as a member of a larger community based both onshore and offshore.
To be effective, this role needs to bridge regulatory interpretation and system implementation, ensuring legislative change is translated into clear software requirements for MRI Revenues & Benefits.
Job description
- Elicit, analyse and document business requirements based on legislative changes and existing system functionality
- Facilitate workshops with customers and internal stakeholders.
- Produce High Level Business Requirements (HLBRs), User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
- Support developers by clarifying requirements during development.
- Support testers with business scenarios and acceptance criteria.
- Review demonstrations of completed functionality.
- Assist the Product Owner with backlog refinement and prioritisation.
- Provide second-line support for requirement-related customer queries.
Requirements
You will need:
- Exceptionally good knowledge on the legislation that determines how software needs to work for Non Domestic Rates.
- At least 2 years’ experience on the MRI Revenues & Benefits application specifically on the Non Domestic Rates software.
- Ideally you will have experience in SQL, but this is not essential.
- The ability to analyse and solve problems.
- To be able to work effectively whilst meeting demanding deadlines.
- A flexible attitude towards work.
- An enthusiastic outlook to working in a challenging role.
- To be able to work on your own initiative.
Benefits
We believe employee benefits should go beyond just a free drink or fruit bowl. What’s more, we believe you should get to choose perks that suit your lifestyle. That’s why we’ve partnered up with the global benefits and rewards provider Perkbox, to offer something for all of our people.
Here’s what you can look forward to:
Perks Hub
- Hundreds of global and local perks, available online 24/7
- Free monthly lifestyle perks; such as free coffees, breakfasts, cinema tickets, etc
- Shopping discounts from the biggest brands, all year round
- Save money on everything from the supermarket shop to summer holidays
Wellness Hub
- Easy to follow videos for everything from yoga exercises, to strength training and HIIT workouts
- Mindfulness, meditation and sleep resources, available on all your devices
- Guides to help with everything from anxiety to stopping smoking
- Confidential mental health helpline, 24/7 access to a qualified counsellor
Celebration Hub
Working with us means you're always part of Team BSS - celebrate and recognise fellow contractors, whether they're across the desk or across the world
Company polls where everybody can vote for the winners
Culture Hub
- A single place to find company updates, photos, benefits information and lots more!
- Stay in the loop with what’s happening by accessing Culture hub anywhere, at any time
Pre-Compliance Checks for Successful Applicants:
At BSS, we uphold the highest standards of screening and trust for every role. Successful applicants will undergo a comprehensive pre-compliance process in line with the Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). This includes:
- Identity Verification: Confirming the authenticity of your identity documents.
- Employment History Checks: Reviewing your occupation history for the past 3-5 years (depending on client requirement).
- Right to Work Verification: Ensuring you have the legal right to work in the UK.
- Unspent Conviction Check: Conducting a Basic DBS Check to reveal any unspent convictions.
These checks are crucial in ensuring a secure and trustworthy work collaboration, aligning with best practices used in government and public sectors. While primarily standard in these sectors, our adoption of pre-compliance checks across all roles reflects our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and trust in our recruitment process.
Equal Opportunities
Business Smart Solutions are a Recruitment Agency - We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global worker base to represent the wide diversity of our clients. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you're passionate about working for a role in local government and share our company values, we encourage you to apply.
BSS is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. BSS considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable UK law. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.
Armed Forces Covenant
We endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- No member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen
- In some circumstances special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
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