Business Analyst, Project Management Office

Business Analyst, Project Management Office

The opportunity

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC is an entrepreneurial, independent, worldwide publisher listed on the London Stock Exchange with offices in London, Oxford, New York, Sydney and New Delhi. Over its 37-year history, Bloomsbury’s mission has been to publish works of excellence and originality.

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to support the development of new, business-critical systems, both internal and customer-facing.  You will liaise with Finance, Sales Operations and Web teams, and work with vendors in order to realise the development of these key systems.

The role

• Work with the business to define requirements.
• Analyse data sources and outputs to contribute to logical and physical modelling and to prepare detailed specifications.
• Work with other Business Analysts to ensure best practice use of tools and techniques.
• Manage and support testing.
• Manage vendors to ensure they are delivering business value.
• Support the Project Office with input to standardised methodologies and lessons learned.
• Provide project management support on smaller projects where required.

Knowledge, skills and experience 

Required:

• Publishing experience.
• Knowledge of and experience using a good range of business analysis techniques.
• Business Analysis professional certification, e.g. BCS Business Analysis Practice; BCS Requirements Engineering; Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
• Ability to elicit and capture requirements, including chairing requirements workshops.
• Experience of capturing workflows, both written and in BPMN/UML format
• Experience of capturing, analysing and resolving data issues and translating these to IT changes for development.
• MS Office, Visio and other productivity tools.
• Experience of working with third-party APIs.
• Writing test scripts / scenarios and managing testing.
• JIRA experience
• Touch typing
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Attention to detail.
• Tenacity, the love of investigating data problems right to the very end
• Self-motivated, team-player

Desirable:

• Experience of managing projects (and knowledge / experience of using project management methodology: Prince2 or PMI a plus)
• Good Knowledge of SQL
• Understanding of ETL and data modelling
• E-commerce experience
• Experience of finance fundamentals and working on finance related projects and experience of bibliographic databases, especially Biblio3

Additional information

The role is a full-time permanent position

Salary Range: £46,250 -£50,000

The role is based at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, on a hybrid working pattern of 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred).  Allocated office days for this role are: Wednesday and Thursday

Please apply with a CV and covering letter addressed to Human Resources (Word or PDF format only) via the ‘APPLY NOW’ button detailing how you meet the requirements outlined above for this role by 19th April 2024.

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Bloomsbury reserve the right to close the role early if we exceed the required number of applications

Bloomsbury Benefits

As well as a fantastic opportunity to join a global award-winning organisation, Bloomsbury offers the following competitive benefits package:

Working Pattern

• hybrid working pattern of: 2 days office based / 3 days home based (or fully office based if preferred)

Holidays

• 25 days holiday
• 3.5 days Christmas company holiday

Other Benefits

• Two paid Personal Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays – take Friday afternoon off by working an additional 3 hours and 30 minutes earlier in the week
• Season Ticket Loan
• Share Save Scheme
• AXA Healthcare Plan (Private Medical Insurance)
• In-house Doctor
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme

Company culture – Employee Voice Meetings, Staff Networks (Bloom (BAME), Accessibility, Mental Health, Pride, and Parents, Guardians and Carers, Multi-Faith) and 21 Mental Health First Aiders trained across the UK offices, Publishing Events and access to free Publishing Resources

For additional benefits see below

Bloomsbury is a place where anyone of any background, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, gender identity, age, ability, or socio-economic status can thrive, feel comfortable, and be heard and accepted. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please flag to the recruitment team if required

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK.