Agile Business Analyst, Bromcom
Cloud-managed information & finance for schools
Open for applications
Cloud-managed information & finance for schools
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide a single robust and cost-effective solution that removes the need for costly bolt-on products.
Role
Who you are
- Experience defining software requirements for complex products, either as a business analyst or equivalent role in Agile software delivery
- Ability to understand complex technical concepts and present them in simple terms to nontechnical team members and clients
- Working with Agile practices and associated skills including user story writing
- Interacting with internal and external customers
- Developing and delivering supporting business processes
- Experience working in B2B, SaaS environments
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact with a wide range of individuals in a wide range of situations that may require tact and diplomacy
- Knowledge of a range of business analysis toolkits: Feasibility/SWOT Analysis/Fishbone/ Process and Data modelling techniques
- Strong logical, problem solving aptitude
- Ability to bring clarity to requirements that are vague, incomplete or ambiguous
- Experience of a wide range of IT projects
- Involvement in the end to end project life cycle
- Knowledge and experience of different agile software project methodologies
- Knowledge of education sector, school MIS, analytics
- Self-organisation, self-motivation and time management skills
- Ability to set personal objectives that support the business/department/team goals
- Good diplomacy and negotiation skills
- High level of skills in all MS Office applications, including MS Project and Visio
- Professional business analysis qualification e.g. ISEB certificate or similar
What the job involves
- You will be working closely with product owner, scrum and product teams, helping them analyse the needs of our prospects and customers and translating those needs into user stories and requirements for the development teams
- Detailed interrogation of client needs and gathering functional and non-functional requirements
- Eliciting and creating detailed requirement documents in the form of features and user stories
- Identifying, developing, and supporting business process change
- Identifying and defining risk factors that could occur
- Being the business analyst role for customer projects in an Agile Team – being available to the team and participating in all Agile Meetings such as sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives
- Involvement in competitor analysis and market value proposition
- Continuous improvement across the team and wider organisation
- Supporting the user acceptance testing process to make sure that implementation meets the needs of the customers
- Creatively Analytical – with a proven record of solution design, you will be able to understand the real need of the customers and stakeholders based on your analysis of quantitative and qualitative information and work with the product team to translate these into deliverable, realistic features and improvements
- Translating customer needs- you will employ a consultative approach to both internal and external customers to inform our strategy and tactics, and whilst you understand the value of instinct, you’ll have sound thinking and data to back it up. Your communication methods need be second to none with international customers
- Understanding the bigger picture – You will understand where parts of the exiting solution apply to new customers and how current functionality can be expanded to solve new problems. You will understand prioritisation and dependencies across multiple client projects and be able to advise the product manager on the best way to prioritise work to maximise value
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Bromcom has come some way since Founder Ali Guryen developed a wireless school attendance recording system in the early 1980s – then hailed as revolutionary. Nowadays, the company offers schools and multi-academy trusts (MATs) a range of cloud-based software solutions for attendance and assessment tracking, data management, finance, and budgeting.
While it would be presumptuous to label the company the leader in its field, its claim that 70% of the UK’s secondary schools use Bromcom for their cloud MIS is a serious indication of its position. Its landmark deal to supply its software to over 200 maintained schools in West Sussex is also testament to the company's scope.
The public sector – from which the majority of Bromcom’s customer base comes – has often been criticised for its slow digital transformation. However, the education sector has recently accelerated its migration to the cloud, which is good news for Bromcom which has been championing (and perhaps banking on) this move for a while.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Competitive salary package with uncapped commission
- Pension contribution
- 24 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays), increasing to 28 after 5 years service
- Birthday off (fully paid)
- Employee Assistance Programme and Wellbeing service
- Hybrid / Remote working (depending on location)
- Training and Development
- Social Events - Bromcom has a number of social events throughout the year to help us keep connected, from our Summer BBQ, to our Christmas meal to name but a few!
Company values
- Loyalty
- Honesty
- Offering true value to the education sector
Company HQ
Bromley, UK
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Leadership
Ali Guryen
(Chairman & Managing Director)Has been involved in Computer Science, Software Engineering & Development since the early 1970s, founding Bromcom in 1986.
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