Intermediate Business Analyst

Overview

Hippo is looking for experienced Business Analysts to join us as Intermediate Consultants. If you have some experience in business analysis and have worked on Agile projects, this could be a great next step for you. You will be able to take complicated business problems and what users need and turn them into clear instructions for the services or products we create.

Hippo offers exciting chances to use your experience in a supportive place and develop your skills as a leader.

• Look closely at problems and suggest different ways to improve services and products, giving clear and helpful advice.
• Plan and run meetings (workshops), build strong, lasting relationships, and make sure everyone agrees on the same goals.
• Write down and study how businesses work, finding ways to make them more efficient.
• Use information and data to help you figure things out, explaining your business decisions clearly.
• Work with designers to create and test early versions of products, making sure they meet people’s needs.
• Gather and make clear what’s needed for a project, turning them into simple instructions for the team.
• Work with Product Owners and Delivery Managers to keep track of what the team will work on.
• Help with testing the product to make sure it works for users.
• Encourage the use of Agile business analysis methods to deliver useful things quickly to users and clients.
• Give advice and support to colleagues and other members of the flexible project team.
• Share good ideas and ways of working with other Business Analysts at Hippo.
• Be willing to travel occasionally to meet clients for projects.

• Analytical and critical thinking; ability to look at information from different places and figure out meaning and actions.
• Confidently shares findings with the project team and other people involved, using facts and evidence.
• Can answer questions from people, with some support from the team.

• Can manage information from different places within a project team.
• Can use data to help with clear thinking.

• Helps to figure out what’s needed for a project using different methods and can choose the best method to use.
• Helps to ensure the team has a clear understanding of what needs to be done and keeps the project plan updated.

• You work well with designers and can give input on their work.
• You understand how talking to users can help decide what’s needed for a project and can help with user research sessions.

• Can use different ways to show how things work and choose the best method to use.
• Can find, measure, and understand ways to make business processes better or identify problems.

• You research and understand what’s important to clients and use this to suggest what to offer.
• You can find common ground with other team members to work well together.
• You build on your relationships with clients to find out what challenges they need to overcome.
• You understand the goals of Hippo, our clients, and the projects you’re working on.

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of: private health cover; private dental cover; additional company pension contributions; additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days); wellbeing contribution; charity contributions; tree planting

At Hippo, we are dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to…