Employer description:
Rentokil Initial provides services that protect people and enhance lives and are a major player in the Business Services Sector. With 1800 local service teams across the world covering 91% of global GDP in over 90 of the world’s 100 largest cities across North America, Europe, UK and the Rest of World, Asia and the Pacific. Operating in over 80 countries; the Company is committed to the use of technology to implement a major improvement program.
Role overview:
This is a functional Business Analyst role within the IT Business Partner team for the UK & ROW business region, providing deployment business analysis across our business information application systems.
Rentokil Initial has an IT strategy, in the main, of developing and deploying bespoke applications across the Prospect to Cash business processes. The Group Information Systems (GIS) function is developing an exciting new generation suite of Enterprise solutions utilising Google technologies and SOA architecture.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Liaising with clients/users to deliver application upgrades and/or delivery of solutions across the prospect to cash processes.
- Helping to define and justify (in business terms) application and business requirements and/or projects to develop/implement application projects providing new or changed processes.
- Assisting clients/users in defining acceptance tests and taking responsibility for their proper execution.
- Assisting the user community in the provision of transition support and changing delivery to realise required business benefits.
Required skills:
- A good understanding of business processes improvement, benefits and risk management and software testing and of all testing events throughout the development lifecycle.
- Taking a systematic and analytical approach to problem solving and paying close attention to detail.
- Above average inter-personal skills and confidence in dealing with clients/users.
- Familiarity with the software engineering life cycle for development and the concepts and practices required to implement effective information systems.
- A broad understanding of business and business skills.
- Proficiency in the task of Requirements definition and management.
- The ability to recognise potential assignments outside own areas of specialisation and bring to bear appropriate expertise as necessary.
- Presenting and reporting skills
Required qualities:
- Analytical thinking
- Conceptual thinking
- Business mindset
- Goal orientation
- Commercial orientation
- Customer focus
- Attention to detail
- A personable approach
Entry requirements:
The entry requirements for this programme are as follows:
- Level 3 Qualification + at least 12 months of work experience* + robust onboarding plan (learner must work in the organisation for 3 months before signing up)
- OR business-related degree e.g: business, finance, economics, maths, etc.
- OR non-business-related degree + at least 6 months of work experience*
- OR existing staff member with 2+ years of work experience**
*Work experience relates to any valid work experience.
**Existing staff work experience should not be in a business analyst role.
You may also have a combination of qualifications and experience which demonstrate the minimum foundation needed for the programme. In this instance you could still be considered for the programme.
If you hold international equivalents of the above qualifications, at the time of your application you must be able to provide an official document that states how your international qualifications compare to the UK qualifications.
Find out more here:
https://www.enic.org.uk/Qualifications/UKQRS/Default.aspx
Working week:
37.5 hours per week.
Salary:
£23,000 per annum.
Important information:
QA’s apprenticeships are funded by the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), an executive agency of the Department for Education.
To be eligible for a Government funded apprenticeship you must have lived in the UK or European Economic Area (EEA) for the last 3 consecutive years.