Business Analyst

Do you have expertise in, and passion for, BA? Would you like to apply your expertise to company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? If so, AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

ABOUT ASTRAZENECA

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven BioPharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious disease. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

ABOUT OUR IT TEAM

Here our work has a direct impact on patients – transforming our ability to develop life-changing medicines. We empower the business to perform at its peak and lead a new way of working, combining cutting-edge science with leading digital technology platforms and data. All with a passion to impact lives through data, analytics, AI, machine learning and more. Join us at a crucial stage of our journey in becoming a digital and data-led enterprise. Make the impossible possible by building partnerships and ecosystems, creating new ways of working

and driving scale and speed to deliver exponential growth. Focused and committed, and backed with the investment to succeed, we’re driving cross-company change to disrupt the entire industry. Ours is a place to innovate, take ownership and run with it. You’re trusted to explore and to find new solutions, experimenting with leading-edge technology and grappling with challenges in a modern technology environment that might never have been tackled before. It’s a dynamic and challenging environment to work in – but that’s why we like it. There are countless opportunities to learn and grow, whether that’s exploring new technologies in hackathons, or transforming the roles and work of colleagues, forever. Shape your own path, with support all the way. Diverse minds that work cross-functionally and inclusively together. Be part of a team that has the backing to innovate, disrupt an industry and change lives.

 THE ROLE

We have an IT Business Analyst role based in Cambridge or Macclesfield that will support our Finance team capability across our offices in the US, UK and Sweden, providing SAP, Finance and BA expertise

The IT Business Analyst is expected to perform at some Intermediate Experienced Level the following:

Business Needs Identification - Operates at a functional level in assessing and defining business need and areas for improvement. Proactively seeks out opportunities to enhance and improve in line with strategic goals.  Actively monitors and identifies capability gaps and proposes potential solutions through research internally and externally.

• Business Analysis Planning - Selects the appropriate analysis approach to a piece of work depending on its complexity, level of risk, known assumptions, constraints and dependencies.  Proficient in scoping and recommending appropriate approaches.  Capable of planning and managing their own and other team member’s activities to meet deliverables and deadlines.  Accountable for performance and quality of analytical work delivered, both their own and the work of others.

• Stakeholder Analysis & Change - Effectively identifies stakeholders from all areas of the business, and actively builds and maintains relationships according to individual stakeholder needs and levels of influence.  Contributes to communication plans and change management for project and stakeholders.

• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition - Responsible and accountable for requirements management plans including elicitation, approvals, processes, RAID and scope impacts.  Highly responsive to changing business priorities with ability to plan ahead, accounting for potential changes and corrective actions.  Advanced requirements elicitation and management skill-set; including traceability, testing and validation.  Leads the work with the business to identify functional and technical requirements, translating the requirements into design specifications reflecting Functional Design, User Interface Design and Business Process Design.   Closely partnering with the Architecture team, ensuring the technical solution will deliver the agreed business benefits. 

• Business Case Definition - Shapes and defines the business case, producing detailed business justification for investment including ROI and benefits realization.

• Solution Evaluation - Highly proficient in analyzing and assessing solution proposals and able to articulate supporting reasoning. i.e. assessing business readiness, maximizing value vs. spend.  

Work collaboratively with:

• Business Relationship Managers to develop and maintain the business relationship, support business process changes and act as point of contact for application development
• Various levels of Business Stakeholders to ensure that solutions fulfil their future strategic needs and challenges
• Business customers to identify business requirements and effectively communicate impact, cost and benefits of new and changed demands
• Process owners to identify and devise solutions that optimize business process performance, capability, and competitiveness 
• IT Architecture, Delivery and Support to ensure clear understanding of requirements and effective testing so that the solutions delivered to the business are efficient and effective, meeting the customer experience expectations. 

Work collaboratively with or take some responsibility for:

• Test Lead to define the testing approach and the components of testing to ensure traceability of requirements and effectiveness of overall solution.
• Change Management/Communication Lead to ensure the Change Management and Communications plans and delivery support the Stakeholder Analysis.

This position can be either considered for internal Grade D or Grade E.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Experience of Finance processes (R2R, P2P, C2C and Tax).
• Experience of successfully deploying business analysis tools/techniques to enable business change
• Experience of working with complex integrated systems, using creative and strategic thinking to deliver exceptional results 
• Engagement, communication and stakeholder management skills, including excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Experience of virtual collaboration to lead, shape and develop innovative solutions 
• Experience of working with and managing third party suppliers/vendors
• Bachelor’s Degree required

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Formal certification in business analysis practice preferred
• 3+ years of professional experience as a Business Analyst preferred
• Established knowledge of or some experience of the Finance domain
• Practical usage of Agile Methodology
• Experience of working in a global organization with complex/geographical context 
• Exposure to User Centered Design and Design thinking (User Experience, Prototyping, User Interface Design and Business Process Design)

WHY JOIN US?

We’re a network of entrepreneurial self-starters who contribute to something far bigger. There’s a diversity of expertise in our Technology group that’s unique to AstraZeneca – it allows us to dive deep into

exploring new leading-edge technology. We enable AstraZeneca to perform at its peak by delivering world-class technology and data solutions. Our work unlocks the potential of science. We optimise and evolutionise AstraZeneca by maximising efficiencies and finding new ways to drive productivity. From automation to data simplification. We’re not afraid to take ownership and run with it. Empowered with unrivalled freedom. A place to be open and transparent – we speak up, think creatively and share ideas. Our diverse contributions help us to make better decisions. But we have a constant drive to innovate,

and an appreciation for high standards. It takes challenging the status quo to add value in our ever-evolving environment. We love it here because put simply, we make a meaningful impact.

Technology at AstraZeneca is a home for purposeful disruptors!

SO, WHAT’S NEXT?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we’d love to hear from you! Click the link to apply and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can.

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Competitive salary & benefits on offer.

Open Date: 19/8/2021
Close Date: 25/8/2021

Date Posted

23-Aug-2021

Closing Date

24-Aug-2021

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.