Kortext – Business Analyst
Kortext was founded in 2013 with a purpose to empower the next generation of difference-makers through teaching and learning. In a little over five years we became the UK’s leading personal learning platform and supplier of digital textbooks. We are continuing to see large-scale growth as the need for online teaching and learning increases rapidly.
Today, we work with 4,500+ publishers including Pearson, McGraw Hill, Wiley and Oxford University Press, we supply over 2 million digital books to students in 80 countries around the world. With Headquarters in Bournemouth, UK & Niagara Ontario , our global team work with universities and governments to support better access to educational content and more effective teaching and learning.
Our Role
Working alongside our product managers, designers, and engineering stakeholders, you’ll be confident in understanding, documenting and articulating detailed requirements, assessing the impact of changes on the business and end users whilst understanding the wider business challenges, interdependencies and conflicts. You’ll gain knowledge through research, process mapping, data collection and analysis, as well as requirements gathering to define appropriate solutions.
You’ll join a team that supports the analysis, identification, and implementation of system improvements, acting as a catalyst for change across the organisation, meaning your work here has the potential to have a massive impact on the business in a relatively short space of time.
The responsibilities of this post will include, but not be limited to, the following:
· Collaborate with Product Managers and engineering teams to perform requirements elicitation techniques to gather information from the project stakeholders and properly document business and solution requirements and other pertinent documents.
· Plan and facilitate project requirements meeting and collaborate with the product and delivery team for their identified projects.
· Conduct research, generating detailed product requirements and users stories with acceptance criteria, determining specifications, gap analysis, competitive analysis, outline business rules & roadmaps to move from current to desired state and provide business perspective to design process.
· Participate in developing and prioritizing user stories in sprints, sprint planning sessions and reviews, support QA team to capture acceptance test cases.
· Facilitate communications on process changes, enhancements, and modifications to ensure issues and solutions are agreed to and understood.
· Ability to negotiate the requirements amongst multiple stakeholders, ensuring the deliverables at the end of each iteration meet the sprint goal for high customer satisfaction.
· Create conceptual mockups as needed that represents the application workflows using tools like Lucid Chart and Figma.
What are we looking for?
· Demonstrable experience of working as Business Analyst on projects within a Software Development organisation
· It will also benefit your application if you are able to demonstrate working within Agile software processes
· Experience of delivering complex projects within a similar organisation
· Communicating and influencing
· Seeing the big picture
· Analytical thinker
· Problem solver
· Documentation, story writing, detail oriented
What’s Great About the team
· A growing team with an innovative vison
· Our Brand and our Brand Exposure
· Diverse and inclusive culture
Kortext Competencies
We have five leadership competencies within our business that are essential to our culture and that you will need to both demonstrate and role model:
· Agility & Adaptability
· Accountability
· Advanced Communication & Collaboration Skills
· Social & Emotional Intelligence
· Transformative Thinking & Awareness
Why choose us?
Kortext is committed to providing an inclusive working environment where our employees can be themselves and everyone has equal opportunity to reach their full potential. We value difference and know that a diverse community makes for greater innovation and brings a breadth of skills, experience and perspectives.
We’re here to help and want to ensure you have a positive experience throughout our recruitment process. We recognise that everyone is unique and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments.
Kortext is a proud supporters of and are actively engaged with charities such as: Race for Good, Girl Raising and Student Minds
We understand that flexibility benefits our people, our teams and our business; wherever possible we will seek to accommodate a blended approach to home and remote working.
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Salary: $75,000.00-$100,000.00 per year
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