Business Analyst

Location

Gurgaon | India

Job description

Introduction

Who we are

The Economist Group is a leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information through a range of formats, from newspapers and magazines to intelligence platforms, conferences, films and digital editions. What ties us together is the objectivity of our opinion, the originality of our insight and our advocacy of economic and political freedom around the world. We value individuals who think differently and can challenge the status quo.

As the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) helps leaders prepare for opportunity, empowering them to act with confidence when making strategic decisions. EIU is the global standard in providing quality, actionable intelligence to the public and private sector, assessing issues that impact the marketplace for over two hundred countries. The business has a large subscription client base, receiving economic, political and industry analysis through our intelligence platform Viewpoint.

What we're looking for

We are looking for a Business Analyst to join The Economist Group's Business Analysis and Change team, part of the Transformation Office, who work on large programmes of change. This role is focused in the Economist Intelligence businesses.

We are currently in a multi-year transformation programme, known internally as Platform for Growth (PfG) to replace our content creation suite. This will allow our content and data to be showcased in more engaging ways and create a platform for the development of new products and services for clients. This includes several new systems including an Editorial CMS, a data visualisation tool and a forecasting system.

This role will work with a Senior Business Analyst (based in London) across the full end to end project and programme lifecycle to understand the current landscape of business and editorial processes and systems that produce our content. You will provide analysis that identifies current challenges, problems and dependencies that will influence the future state definition and delivery. A level of system analysis will be required in this role so the successful candidate will be used to working with and assessing asset structures, data flows and system capabilities to determine how they can be best used to support the future state.

The successful candidate will work with a multitude of roles including Editorial and Business teams, Product managers, Project managers and both inhouse and 3rd party technology partners with a focus to deliver effective value and change.

The EIU's approach to work for this role permits qualifying colleagues in the team to split their time between attending the office and working remotely and, if they wish, to spend the majority of their working time working remotely.

The flexibility in this working arrangement is an important aspect of our way of working. Our India offices are based in Mumbai and Gurugram and you will be expected to attend the office for up to three days each month to collaborate with teams.

Accountabilities

How you will contribute:

• Work in collaboration with the Senior BA leading in PfG to deliver analysis that supports the delivery of requirements to build the system capabilities while understanding they fit into the editorial & business processes and customer journeys at level of detail appropriate to the situation
• Own and deliver areas of analysis and investigation and demonstrate a flexible and adaptive approach to producing validated requirements and solution approaches
• Ability to identify key value points in the current state and collaborate with key stakeholders (editors, statisticians, data scientists & data analysts) to maintain the values delivered through future capabilities
• Experience in eliciting high quality validated requirements, expressed at the appropriate level of detail, that clearly demonstrate value for the proposed scope that generate a consistent understanding across both Editorial, Business and Engineering functions
• Act as a mediator between Editorial, Business and cross-functional development teams to facilitate seamless collaboration and effective communication
• Be prepared to propose options that align with future strategy or be able justify tactical solutions or deviations.
• Facilitate productive and engaging workshops at any and all stages of the process with clear aims and outcomes
• Proactive collaboration with other BAs on analysis approaches and outcomes

Experience, skills and professional attributes

To succeed in this role it would be an advantage if you possess:

• Experience of delivering improvements in content production architectures from creation to product distribution and an understanding of the core challenges faced, with particular emphasis on developing UI workflows on both bespoke and 3rd party platforms
• Understanding and experience with APIs and data migration processes
• Ability to recognise when analysis and investigations should go wider than initially expected and the experience to focus and prioritise their approach.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to constructively challenge and play devil's advocate that results in trusted relationships.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with suitable information at the best level for the audience.
• A highly collaborative work style and the ability to successfully work in a team environment driving collaborative behaviour and psychological safety.

The Economist Group values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, gender identity, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, age or marital status. See more on our careers page.

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