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Senior Business Analyst - London

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:07:24 GMT

Major Job Responsibilities
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.
- Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate.
- Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
- Develop requirement documentation that will translate business needs into requirements that can be understood by the analytics development team.
- Design processes that support business initiatives.

The Business Analyst provides analytical ability and creativity in developing and implementing solution deliverables for a medium to large sized project or major segments of a larger project. Provides technical advice to project managers and team leaders, and gives technical direction to team members including subcontractors and client personnel. Often balances technical work assignments, team members’ technical skills and project/engagement/proposal risk while providing technical guidance to newer or less experienced team personnel. Leads in identifying new revenue producing product and/or IT services opportunities regionally and assists in selling hardware and software products where appropriate. Provides detailed technical knowledge in the sale of complex hardware and software solutions. This position requires significant knowledge across multiple platforms, processes or architectures.

Required
- Solid commercial experience in analytical and IT on medium and large scale projects
- Fluent english

.Net Developer- London

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:48:35 GMT

The successful candidate will have demonstrable commercial experience of c#, asp.net and show an enthusiasm for the technology and new challenges. You will develop functionality and Content Management Systems used by client websites. You will capture technical requirements from clients and work with a mixed project team of developers, designers and production staff to ensure that those requirements are adequately documented and ultimately fulfilled.

Responsibilities:

- To work with designers and front end and project management staff to capture requirements for the functional elements of website projects.
- To liaise with clients and with other internal teams.
- To learn to use new third party software as required.
- To evaluate and communicate on a regular basis the resources, timescales and technical limitations associated with implementation with the project manager and with the client.
- To ensure that all work carried out complies with standards and guidelines.
- To test and validate work produced as part of the development process.
- To ensure that all work carried out is well-documented, and that the documentation is accessible to relevant parties.

Experience and skills required:

- Educated to degree level in a technical area
- An attention to detail, rigor and willingness to take responsibility for all work and code produced.
- An ability to learn new languages and new systems
- Ability to work within a team and to apply systematic thinking to the resolution of problems in a highly creative environment.
- Ability to meet challenging deadlines, and in the event of difficulty or delay, to communicate this to the project leader as early as possible.
- A demonstrable willingness and aptitude to learn and develop skills.
- An understanding of business issues
- An ability to think about technical issues in a creative way
- An ability to work independently on the technical element of projects

Account Director- Canberra

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:43:35 GMT

You will be working with a variety of clients and have responsibility for all client issues and for managing client expectations.

Responsibilities will include a mixture of New Business and Account Management tasks including:
• Building excellent relationships at a variety of client levels and being a strategic partner to your clients in their digital activity
• Ensuring profitable delivery of work through effective cross-business/department relationships and processes
• Ensuring quality and timeliness of work delivered to clients
• Leading new business development
• Working on proposals and pitches to convert these leads into new clients
• Management of new clients into profitable, repeat business
• Creating new business opportunities within an existing client base
You will be:

• A team player, fun, irreverent, happy to muck in, ambitious, passionate, honest, sparky, energetic

You will not be:

• Political, defensive, insular, egotistical

We’re looking for ambitious, switched on people with experience liaising with clients, building relationships and managing expectations, and co-ordinating with internal teams. You should have significant experience working on either traditional or digital projects. You will have excellent writing, presentation and organisational skills, and the ability to juggle multiple tasks and priorities. You will also have proven success and experience at pitching and business development.

As we are an international company there may be an opportunity to travel within the role.

We have a very diverse team and we will offer you every opportunity to grow and develop your skills. We are looking for someone who takes great pride in their work. We are looking for someone with the right attitude that will fit in to our highly skilled team and have the same passion and drive that we have for every project we work on.

Business Analyst/ Consultant- London

Wed, 26 May 2010 14:54:31 GMT

Business Analyst/Consultant required by our award winning digital agency. Working with a diverse group of clients, you'll lead projects and provide management consultancy, advising on how digital strategies can improve business performance, as well as support change management. You'll also work with the new business team in analysing business issues and assisting with presentations. The role will involve taking ownership of the requirements capture and specifications, and being the link between clients and internal project management, development, and operation teams.

With substantial consultancy experience you'll be used to dealing at board level with multi-national organisations. You will have demonstrable experience gathering and writing requirements specifications, a technical mindset, and a consultative approach. You'll deal effectively with ambiguity, be a confident and clear communicator, and be able to provide leadership to more junior members of staff. You will provide thought leadership and have the ability to engage, manage and inspire clients.

PHP Web Developer - Manchester

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:12:17 GMT

As a PHP Developer, you will work independently on smaller projects as well as working as part of a team on larger projects. Great communication skills are essential as you will be required to attend client meetings and help scope out project requirements. You will liaise with other members of the technical team as well as the creative and client services departments. You will enjoy a fast paced environment and be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.

You'll be technically qualified to Degree level or equivalent and have solid relevant work experience. Most of all you'll be able to work with clients and come up with innovative solutions quickly.

Project Manager - London

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:56:34 GMT

You will be responsible for the management and delivery of innovative projects, you'll provide strategic advice and act as the key contact to a diverse set of set of clients, from FMCG through lifestyle, to blue chip companies. You'll be fully involved with business development and client relationship building. You'll also head up multi-functional teams, providing project lead for designers and web developers, as well as strategic input on all projects in which you are involved.

Responsibilities:
• To ensure the smooth running of projects undertaken by Reading Room, within time and to budget
• To manage the expectations and communication with clients throughout the project lifecycle
• To work with colleagues to effectively manage resources across all projects and maximize company profitability
• To work on proposals and pitches in order to help secure new business
• End to end project management with overall responsibility for project success including: General day to day client contact, Resolve any project issues or disputes with client, Internal resource management, Produce client documentation including PIDs, functional specifications, milestone sign offs, test scripts etc

Requirements:
• Good bachelors degree or equivalent
• Solid experience in a similar role implementing Technical/Digital projects
• Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills and experience and aptitude in building and managing relationships.
• Persuasive and confident in new business pitching.
• Good understanding of Digital Communication and how it can be used to deliver business value.