Graduate Business Analyst

Job description

Job title: Graduate Business Analyst
Team: Design and Analysis Team
Location: Any Scottish Enterprise Hub within Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh & Aberdeen (with home-working options)
Salary: £31,115
Hours: Full Time 35 hours a week (flexible working considered)
Status: Permanent
Closing date: 08/05/2024
Job ref no: R00498

Be part of building Scotland's future

Scottish Enterprise is Scotland's national and international economic development agency. We work to transform the Scottish economy by helping businesses to innovate and scale. Our work is critical to the Scottish Government’s National Strategy for Economic Transformation (NSET) and its goals of creating high-value jobs, boosting productivity, and growing national wealth.

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The opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to join Scottish Enterprise’s Graduate Development Programme as a Business Analyst. You’ll be part of a cross-functional team of digital specialists creating a product or service. You’ll also work with a Service Delivery Manager to see how this product or service is delivered effectively. It’s your chance to develop your skills in a fast-track environment alongside experienced Business Analysts.

The role

Scottish Enterprise’s digital products are the ‘shopfront’ to the services we provide to businesses. You’ll join the teams who evolve these so they meet the changing needs of our users. As a Business Analyst, you’ll learn to combine a unique blend of technical and people skills that help you understand and analyse customers’ needs, identify problems and help develop the right solutions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Researching a business’ challenges, people, processes, IT, infrastructure and other factors so you can understand and analyse their needs and opportunities
• Identifying areas for improvement, exploring feasible options, analysing the effects of changes and defining measures for success
• Understanding any business and policy constraints and assessing the implications of these
• Ensuring new products and services meet business and user needs in line with organisational goals

Who we're looking for

You’ll be an enthusiastic graduate aiming to take on a Junior Business Analyst role at the end of this two-year programme. We’ll help you work towards that goal by equipping you with any skills you don’t already have. For now, we’ll expect you to bring us the following skills, experience, traits and strengths:

• Qualifications or skills and experience at SCQF Level 9 as a minimum (e.g. BA/Ordinary Degree, Graduate Diploma or SVQ at SCQF Level 9)
• You enjoy working with people, understanding their needs and turning these into requirements
• You like researching problems, exploring solutions and giving reasons for your decisions
• You take a structured approach to progressing through work and making recommendations
• You’re a skilled team player who understands your own and others’ strengths and weaknesses
• You believe in getting the best from everyone, ensuring diversity of thought informs solutions
• You always want to know why things are how they are so you can try to improve on them

What we offer

If successful, you'll gain access to the following benefits: 

• Membership of the Scottish Enterprise Pension and Life Assurance Scheme – a pension based on your final pensionable salary, flexible retirement options and generous life assurance cover
• Up to 43 annual leave days a year (including public holidays), with the opportunity to buy additional holidays
• Flexible working arrangements
• A health cash plan
• Our Employee Retail Benefits Scheme
• Our Employee Assistance Scheme

Life at Scottish Enterprise

As one of Scotland’s Top 10 Flexible Employers, we pride ourselves on empowering our colleagues to work when and where they can best deliver their role in support of our corporate plan.

Learn more about working with us 

How to apply

If you're interested in this role, please complete your application form by 8 May 2024.

Assessment Centres will be held in Glasgow and Edinburgh between the 11 - 14 June 2024, with a start date of September 2024.

Our values

Being part of Scottish Enterprise means being open to new ideas and trying different ways of working. We support each other to reach our full potential. We celebrate shared success and learn together when things don’t go so well. And we always treat each other fairly, with respect and understanding. Together, we are the difference.

At Scottish Enterprise, we’re proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience and thought is vital to the success of our vision for the future of every community across Scotland. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applicants from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

We commit to providing any reasonable adjustments required, not only during the application and assessment process but throughout employment with us.

We have the following networks which are open to all colleagues to help drive inclusion, Disability Positive, Gender Balanced, Multi-cultural, Multi-Generational and Pride (LGBTQ+).

Apply now to build your future with us.