Business Analyst

We at PEI Group are looking for a mid-level Business Analyst to join our welcoming, diverse, and growing team based here in London. Successful candidate will help support efforts around existing and new subscription data & information, events, and related membership products.

PEI Group is growing its product and project delivery team as it expands its portfolio to align with customer needs.

These projects will incorporate a range of elements including working with large, complex datasets, WordPress CMS, search databases, identity and access management, subscription/online payment applications, virtual events, and networking applications, as well as integration with business systems including CRM, ESPs, marketing automation tools, data warehouse & web analytics tools.

Working within an agile scrum framework, the BA will report to a Senior Business Analyst. They will be joining a growing team of BAs, product, and project managers, and will have responsibilities including:

• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, the product and IT delivery teams to analyse user needs and functional requirements
• Creating artefacts including user stories, specification or support documents, process flows and carrying out related admin tasks
• Working with our third-party developers as required throughout each 2-week sprint
• Analysing, testing and implementing new functionality as part of a larger project team

Who are PEI?

PEI Group is a subscriber-focused business intelligence company. With our multi-talented global team of over 300 people, spread across EMEA, USA & Asia, our purpose is to inform and connect investment professionals across global, specialised markets. We identify specific high growth, high value investment sectors and themes where deep insight, strong market relationships and active capital flows are critical for success.

What do PEI do?

PEI Group provides industry-leading journalism, data, and market insight to subscribing clients via a wide portfolio of specialist brands supported by our robust and scalable digital publishing, analytics, and database platform.

We also track the firms and individuals who shape markets and bring client-communities together to enable knowledge sharing, profile building and relationship development through professional networks and events.

Wherever our markets are active – in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, London and elsewhere – PEI is hard at work examining crucial market forces and shifting investment themes, identifying active investors and their capital allocations, and scanning ahead for regulatory changes, new compliance requirements and other risk factors.

Requirements

Although we are keeping direct experience and knowledge requirements to a minimum, we do need you to demonstrate your capabilities in relation to the points listed under essential requirements in the person specification. You should prepare to discuss illustrations on how your competencies have helped you to achieve positive results.

Essential Experience

• Demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst (at least 3 years) in an agile environment

Desired Experience

• Experience with B2B, publishing, subscription, or data products

Essential Knowledge/Skills

• Ability to understand and analyse requirements and write effective and efficient requirement specifications / user stories using INVEST criteria
• Agile/scrum experience

• Excellent communicator
• Ability to carry out complex analysis of datasets and conduct appropriate data validation
• Data Mapping & Data Modelling experience

Desired Knowledge/Skills

• Agile/relevant certifications
• Ability to produce detailed business models, mapping, and process flows

We strive to ensure that opportunities to work and develop at PEI Group are fair, inclusive, and open to all. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other equality characteristic

PEI Group supports flexible working arrangements, and we welcome career returners.

Benefits

25 days annual leave (+8 bank holidays)

You deserve a break and are entitled to 25 days paid annual leave in addition to the 8 public/bank holidays. Long Service award PEI offer a scheme to increase an employee's holiday allowance according to length of service. After 2 years of service, you will receive an additional day’s annual leave, you will receive an extra day up to 4 years of service, taking you 28 days annual leave.

Holiday-Flex

Any permanent employee of PEI can buy from or sell PEI up to three holiday days. The value is calculated as 1/260th of the employee's current annual basic salary.

Flexible working policy

We know how busy life can get and believe it is very important to have a good work-life balance. That is why we have a comprehensive Flexible working policy so you can best fit work into your life.

4 days volunteer leave per year

Volunteer leave at PEI offers employees the option of taking 4 working days per year (fully paid) to give back to a charitable cause of their choice.

Life Cover

The Company provides you with life cover of 4 times your “basic salary”, as long as you are on a permanent contract with PEI.

Free access to Employee Assistance programme

The Company provides staff with access to a confidential employee assistance programme (EAP), which is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The EAP provides access to trained experts either via the phone or on a face-t0-face basis.

Employee Referral scheme

We offer incentives for successfully recommending someone new into the business. If you make a recommendation for a vacancy, you will be eligible for a £1,500 bonus.

Private Medical Insurance

After successful completion of your probation period, PEI offer Private Medical Insurance via BUPA as a free benefit to you, but it is taxable.

4.5% matched pension contribution

After three consecutive years in the pension scheme with PEI, employees will have the opportunity to have any increased pension contributions (above 4.5%), matched by the business up to 5%.

Cycle to work scheme

After successful completion of your probation period, PEI will work with you to ensure that the loan of a bicycle can be treated as a tax-free benefit, enabling you to cycle to and from work (we also have great shower facilities on site, as well as plenty of bike racks to safely store your bike!) Season ticket / Travel loan After successful completion of your probation period, PEI offers an interest free travel loan, available for all permanent employees, for rail or tube annual tickets, for the purpose of you travelling to and from work.

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