The Rank Group has been entertaining Britain since 1937, from its origins in motion pictures to today's gaming-based venues and digital entertainment brands. If you’re not sure who we are, you may be more familiar with us through our iconic brands; Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor Casino.

The position advertised sits in Rank Interactive, a leading international digital gaming company, underpinned by superior talent and technology.

We operate a multi-branded strategy, using a combination of proprietary and licensed software to provide online bingo and slot gaming and a social gaming mobile application. Every day, millions of people worldwide enjoy our products on their mobiles, tablets and desktops.

We bring people and entertainment together, delivering stimulating and entertaining experiences through diverse digital channels from our offices in Gibraltar, London, Maidenhead, Mauritius, Sheffield, South Africa and Israel. With a team of over 600 worldwide, we empower our colleagues to work at the peak of their strengths and passions by providing innovative and collaborative working environments that attract, retain and engage high-performing talent.

Rank Interactive are on a mission to create the leading UK multi-channel brands in the Bingo and Casino industry. We are passionate about our brands, products and players, we strive to deliver new and innovative products, campaigns and features that excite and entertain our players.

We are looking for a talented Business Analyst to join our team based in our Contact Centre in Sheffield

This is a very independent role and requires the individual to be self-motivated and have a willingness to learn. The projects are specific to Safer Gambling, where you will work with various business stakeholders and lead on gathering safer gambling business requirements to establish business processes, application functionality, and technology solutions, translating those requirements into user stories and training plans, matching the needs of the business with the most appropriate solutions, and most appropriate analysis techniques.

Main Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

• Clearly identify project stakeholders and build strong working relationships
• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision
• Provide Business Process design and documentation expertise, recommend business process and/or system improvements using formal (and informal) techniques
• Provide clear business requirements to tech leads and development team and communicate technical solutions back to the business
• Manage and prioritise product backlog based on dependencies and requirements
• Leads the gathering, understanding, documentation and translation of the business requirements and user stories for the project, translating into detailed user stories (as appropriate), with supporting acceptance criteria and training strategies where required.
• Provide the project manager with accurate and measurable estimates for Business Analysis deliverables
• Develop a broad understanding of Rank Group processes and applications and a deeper knowledge across an agreed portfolio to act as a Subject Matter Expert
• Provide expertise to assist Product owners and internal customer groups in identifying opportunities to maximize business value from existing technology and application landscape
• Provide Process & Application portfolio expertise to Service Transition and BAU teams  
• Work with development and QA teams to ensure all stories are understood and appropriate test plans are developed
• Facilitate User Acceptance testing and customer signoff

• Detailed knowledge and experience in implementing regulated business projects, which involve multiple activities and streams of people from both IT and business teams using Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Experience in working in a Multi-channel digital and/or retail organisation and working within a Matrix structure
• Significant experience working with Business stakeholders and project sponsors
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in the successful application of the principles, methods, techniques and tools of various business analysis techniques
• Ability to write User Stories and Business Process documents according to a variety of recognised standards
• A proven ability to translate technical designs and constraints to understand business concepts
• Experience in working with distributed technical development teams
• The ability to transform data into insight and prioritise solutions that deliver maximum value
• Good awareness of Product Lifecycle - strategy and how this informs and drives product development
• Dynamics 365 experience or implementation an advantage
• Knowledge of Gambling Industry and Safer Gambling practices would be an advantage

Qualifications (Desirable but not essential):

 ·       BCS - Business Analysis

If you’d be interested in joining the Rank family, please get in touch and we can talk through the options available to you. 

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