Business Analyst

Job title: Business Analyst (Summer Graduate) Duration: 6-8 weeks Role type: Full Time Location: Onsite - Cheltenham Office Pay: £120 - £175 per day (via Umbrella) Start: ASAP Role Purpose: Provide graduate business analysis support across Group IT projects, helping teams analyse data, clarify requirements, secure stakeholder approvals and improve data quality. Key Accountabilities: • Conducting accurate analysis, clear requirements documentation and timely completion of assigned activities. • Contact stakeholders across the business to progress tasks as required • Highlight anomalies identified in the process, data sets, decision making and flag to project team • Makes recommendations within agreed scope and escalates risks, dependencies and approvals to project leads. Key Responsibilities: • Work with project, data and operational teams to understand objectives, scope and information needs. • Analyse, validate and cleanse data sets; identify gaps, duplicates and quality issues. • Elicit, document and prioritise business requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria. • Prepare simple process maps, data summaries, issue logs and action trackers. • Coordinate stakeholder reviews, capture feedback and track approvals/sign-offs. • Support project meetings, status reporting and follow-up actions across multiple teams. • Escalate risks, blockers and dependencies promptly to the relevant lead. Measures / KPIs: • Agreed analysis and data-cleansing tasks completed on time • Requirements, decisions and approvals documented clearly • Stakeholder feedback captured and actions followed through • Risks, blockers and data-quality issues escalated promptly • Positive feedback from peers/projects leads that work undertaken is adding value Relevant Experience: • Suitable for a graduate or student interested in business analysis, data, technology or project delivery • Experience using Excel to organise, analyse or cleanse data • Experience gathering information, summarising findings and working with others • Exposure to projects, process improvement or stakeholder engagement desirable • IT, manufacturing or engineering environment exposure advantageous, but not essential Qualifications, Skills and Competencies: • Degree or working towards a degree in Business, IT, Data, Engineering or related discipline • Strong analytical mindset with good attention to detail and data accuracy • Confident communicator able to ask clear questions and summarise requirements • Good Excel skills; Power BI, SQL or data-visualisation familiarity useful • Organised, proactive and comfortable working across several teams and priorities • Able to document decisions, actions and approvals clearly • Collaborative, curious and willing to learn business analysis methods