M&A Senior Business Analyst (5130)

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We're a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is 'we're legal and financial experts that care' - something you'll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we're more than just a law firm - we're a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life's ups and downs. Working here you'll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.

We'll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

Your Role

As a Business Analyst within the M&A Integrations Team, you will support the delivery of business integrations following merger and acquisition activity and lead analysis activities to align acquisitions with Irwin Mitchell's processes and systems.

Your role is essential in aiding the business in realising the investment case through identification and implementation of business process and systems change, which supports smooth transition of the acquired entity.

What You'll Be Doing

Professional Expertise

• Identify opportunities and lead problem solving activity on M&A integration programmes.
• Use various tools and techniques to thoroughly understand the needs or problems of M&A integration programs. Advise or direct others on smaller projects and identify dependency links with other projects.
• Facilitate communication between the project or product team and the business leading engagement and facilitation initiatives to develop a consensus on complex programmes and major products.
• Lead the analysis and solution evaluation for a large and complex integration program or major product by analysing and synthesising complex information to create focus and find solutions.
• Ensure the delivered solution or design meets the intended need and resolves the problem by leading assurance activities on complex projects or major products. This involves aligning with target business designs, providing recommendations, and offering constructive challenges.

People and Mind-set

• Build and maintain effective relationships with the M&A team, the M&A Integrations Team, CIO, and business stakeholders using persuasion to deliver outcomes aligning with strategic directions of the organisation.
• Encourage collaboration and leadership by uniting individuals with complementary skills, fostering open expression of conflicting viewpoints, and resolving conflicts with sensitivity and fairness.
• Promote accountability, self-management, and a willingness to learn by taking responsibility for delegated work, anticipating changes, encouraging new perspectives, and supporting others in their learning.

Client and Business

• Focus on customer value and business growth by finding ways to add value beyond immediate needs, questioning and challenging the value delivered, and addressing long-term and future needs.
• Develop a well-thought-out, compelling vision identifying the implications of own analysis, clearly articulating team-level outcomes, and plans to deliver.
• Generate value by focusing on delivery and demonstrating commercial acumen.
• Independently manage tasks that require interpreting complex and often ambiguous information.

About You

You must be able to operate in complex project environments to quickly elicit key information to aid the shaping of the business process and systems transition.

• Broad range of analysis skills & techniques
• Understanding drivers for change including benefits measurement and profiling
• Assuring design governance using guardrails
• Stakeholder analysis, engagement & collaboration
• Understand and awareness of the BA involvement throughout the change lifecycle.
• Design techniques eg. Business Modelling, Prototyping and wire framing
• Capturing, documenting and prioritising requirements
• Proactivity, pragmatism and have the ability to manage ambiguity in the early stages of a project
• Design/ Convergent thinking
• Flexible communication and facilitation
• Forming and presenting recommendations
• Understanding of Target Operating Model and Business Design
• Interviewing, question techniques & surveying
• Ethical, human centric and empathy-based research approach
• Curiosity, tenacity, critical thinking
• Use of design thinking to understand Persona's and Client / Colleague journey

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We're committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It's made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

Additional Information

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group's on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group's employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.