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Package description

Job Reference: 17740

Band: D

Salary range: Up to £63,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights

Contract type: 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Location: Salford - Quay House (Primary), London - London Broadcasting House, Birmingham - The Mailbox, Bristol - Broadcasting House, Glasgow - Pacific Quay, Cardiff - 3 Central Square.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

•    An employer pension contribution of up to 10%

•    26 days’ annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days

•    Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes

•    Employee assistance and well-being programmes

•    Learning and development tailored to your role – this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring

•    An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women’s Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any time, please let us know by contacting us on Reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk with the job reference in the subject.

Job introduction

We are looking for a Business Analyst to join us on a 12-month FTC to support delivery of an enterprise-wide transformation programme. We are particularly keen to speak to people with domain knowledge of Finance and Procurement functions (Procure to Pay and Source to Pay), within a SAP ERP organisation.

Our ideal candidate is highly motivated, passionate about the BBC, great at building strong working relationships with stakeholders and other companies to share experiences and ensure the delivery of the best possible service and user experience to our customers inside the BBC and externally.

Interview process

Virtual interview – approx. one hour of technical and values-based questions

Main responsibilities

•    Take ownership of gathering and articulating user, business and technical requirements (both functional and non-functional), documenting accurately, to ensure all requirements that contribute to a business case and solution delivery are valid and traceable

•    Collaborate and interact with multi-disciplined teams for initial feasibility study, solution design and business justification to ensure there is a clear understanding of “what” change is being proposed and “why”

•    Advise on the implementation of strategy and identification of technical options within business areas, using research information to inform and drive business options and decisions

•    Acquire in-depth knowledge of existing business processes and systems, documenting process models and task analysis, to identify areas for potential process improvement

•    Identify business risk and issues, and detail business impact for mitigation plans, including any handover or operational early life support for a smooth transition

•    Build and maintain strong business relationships with all stakeholders and designated contacts, to share business system and domain knowledge

•    Work closely with Project and Product management teams with the purpose of providing analysis updates, removing task blockers to facilitate business or technical decisions in the BBC’s best interest

•    Work with business areas to define business benefits, creating benefits maps and introducing measures to baseline, track and report progress against targets, to measure performance and value.

Are you the right candidate

•    SAP ERP (FICO and HCM) experience (Desirable)

•    Experience of working within a complex Finance systems landscape (Essential)

•    Experience working in a large scale organisation who employ people on a wide range of contract types and durations and have adopt both standard and matrix management approaches. (Essential)

•    Comprehensive knowledge of business and data analysis tools and techniques such as: requirements engineering, structured analysis and design, process mapping and component business modelling, and business process re-engineering with the ability to select different business analysis techniques appropriate and relevant to delivery scope drawing on applied expertise. (Essential)

•    Experience of leading and delivering Business Analysis disciplines as a Senior Business Analyst in a technical environment and project lifecycle delivery (Essential)

•    Strong written and verbal communication skills; the ability to get the message across and relate to the audience (Essential)

•    Ability to effectively manage professional relationships; listening, encouraging discussion and promoting two way communication (Essential)

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.  Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC.  We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles.  The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.  We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.