Senior Business Analyst

About The Role
Hippo Digital is recruiting for Senior Business Analysts to join our growing consultancy. Business Analysts translate complex business problems and user needs into a set of detailed requirements for the end-to-end service or product, with the appropriate use of epics, features, user stories and defined acceptance. You'll clearly and accurately communicate business requirements and user needs to a variety of stakeholders, including senior leaders and the team, using the appropriate methods of communication or documentation.
As a Senior Consultant, specialising in Business Analysis, you’ll already be an expert in your field. You’ll also be a leader of people and teams and advocate for user-centred design approaches. Hippo will provide exciting opportunities to share your expertise with, and influence, clients and team members, and to develop as a leader
Your role in a nutshell:

• Work with the Product Owner and/or Delivery Manager to establish and maintain a prioritised product, programme or project backlog of what needs to be built.
• Work with designers to inform the creation and iteration of prototypes for the services or product to solve the problems users face
• Define business process improvements for products or services to inform recommendations identifying clear benefits and contributing to delivery plans.
• Use insights from user research and metrics to inform the business analysis approach, and explain your business decisions clearly.
• Be an expert in Agile delivery, identifying the best Agile processes for projects and measuring the success of outcomes.
• Run workshops with your team and stakeholders
• Build long-term, strategic relationships with stakeholders
• Work collaboratively within the Business Analysis community to provide contribute and shape the Hippo BA Community of Practice.
• Advocate for the use of agile business analysis in particular for the delivery of products or services
• Advise and support business analysis colleagues and other members of Agile teams.
• Work with the hippo business analysis community to share best practice to ensure high standards, including attending business analysis events and writing blog posts

About the Candidate:
People are at the centre of everything we do. We’re a diverse and close-knit community united by a love for solving complex problems for our clients and their users. We take a common sense approach to getting things done. We get things wrong, we learn from experience and we adapt. We stay curious and never stop learning.
We don’t need you to have any certificates or qualifications, but we do need to be confident that you can demonstrate the following:

• Have exemplary business analysis skills including communication, listening and organisational skills
• Have expertise in eliciting and management requirements to meet user needs within a product or services focussed project
• Have experience of GDS standards and service principles in service delivery
• Be able to understand the strategic objectives of the organisation and how the insights will help them
• Find pragmatic and creative ways to balance constraints to meet user needs.
• Have expertise in eliciting and managing requirements to meet user needs within a product or services focussed project
• Communicate confidently and credibly on behalf of the company and the client.
• Enjoy sharing your skills and experience with your client to enable them to continue to iterate and improve content after you leave
• Be a strong presenter and happy to sell the benefits of business analysis to people who aren’t familiar with the discipline
• Experience of working in an Agile workplace

About The Company
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
  • private health cover
  • private dental cover
  • additional company pension contributions
  • additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
  • wellbeing contribution
  • charity contributions
  • tree planting

Hi, we’re Hippo Digital.
At Hippo Digital, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering.  We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.
We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world. 
Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do. If you're looking for a digital services partner that can deliver real results, let us help you build for the future and make a lasting impact.
Hippo locations
We are headquartered in Leeds and located across the UK in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide, so don't let location hold you back from applying. We welcome candidates from all over the UK who possess the flexibility to work from any of our locations. Plus, we offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8k to help make your move a smooth one. It's worth noting that, given the dynamic nature of our business, you may be required to work on-site at client locations or from your own home.
Diversity and Inclusion at Hippo Digital: A commitment to lasting change
At Hippo Digital, we're wholeheartedly dedicated to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion. For us, it's not about checking off boxes but about making a true, lasting difference. Having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem-solving while fostering an inclusive environment that benefits everyone. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply and join us on this important journey.