About the Role
Base Location: Cardiff, Reading and Perth
Salary: £44,195 - £50,611 + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.
Working Pattern: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract | Full Time | Flexible First options available
What is the Role?
As a Business Analyst within SSE Business Energy, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping business strategies and processes. You will collaborate with business and IT teams to address and clarify requirements, ensuring that energy solutions are both innovative and viable. Through your analysis, you will help steer projects towards enhancing the operational effectiveness and leading the business closer to achieving its net-zero ambitions. As part of your role you will:
- Work with business and IT teams to clearly define and document requirements, ensuring successful implementation and validation through rigorous testing.
- Marshal requirements and facilitate the identification and design of business processes to accommodate innovative solutions.
- Plan, prioritise, and execute analysis tasks effectively across multiple concurrent projects, consistently meeting cost and schedule targets.
- Conduct qualitative analysis to thoroughly assess business impact, enabling you to present findings to stakeholders at all levels.
- Perform comprehensive scoping during initial and precursor project stages to pinpoint critical issues and define a clear project trajectory.
What do I need?
To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:
- Extensive experience in a Business Analyst role supporting business critical projects.
- Extensive experience of defining high level and detailed requirements and user stories in a regulated environment with strong advisory skills in recommending efficiency improvements and aligning efforts with business growth.
- Qualified to a Certified Business Analyst standard is desirable (BCS, APMG, IIBA, or equivalent).
- Experience working in both Waterfall and Agile environments and working at all stages of the project lifecycle.
- Understanding and appreciation of working in a heavily regulated environment. Experience of the gas and electricity market, industry, and operations, or similarly regulated industry sector is desirable.
About our Business
The race to net zero is intensifying for businesses of all sizes. Sustainable decisions made today can meet customers' changing needs for tomorrow and bring long-term success for businesses. Part of SSE plc, the UK and Ireland's largest renewable electricity generator, SSE Energy Solutions is different as all its renewable electricity is sourced from SSE's own UK wind and hydro assets.
In addition to providing gas and electricity to businesses across the UK, SSE Energy Solutions invests in, builds and connects localised flexible infrastructure to drive the long-term performance of energy assets. SSE Energy Solutions works with its customers to deliver financially robust plans to bring flexibility and diversity to their energy infrastructure - the low-carbon solutions they need to succeed in the race to net zero.
What's in it for you?
An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement (including public holidays), enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.
As an equal opportunity employer we encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applicants from all protected characteristics and commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required during the application, assessment and upon joining SSE. Search for 'Inclusion & Diversity at SSE' to find out more.
Next Steps
All applications should be submitted online, and I'll be back in touch after the vacancy closing date to let you know the outcome.
If you would like to discuss any working differently requirements or adjustments you may require throughout the recruitment and selection process, please contact Lynsey on 01738 340426.
Before commencing employment with SSE, you'll be required to fully complete our pre-employment screening process consisting of a basic criminal records and credit check.
