Business Analyst

Hogarth is the Global Content Production Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging. The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions. Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people dedicated to doing extraordinary work for our clients. We operate in over 100 countries, with corporate headquarters in New York, London and Singapore. WPP is a world leader in marketing services, with deep AI, data and technology capabilities, global presence and unrivalled creative talent. Our clients include many of the biggest companies and advertisers in the world, including approximately 300 of the Fortune Global 500. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.

A Hybrid working model

We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.

Department Summary

The Hogarth Technology Team are responsible for a wide range of hardware and software solutions. Spanning Private and Public Cloud Infrastructure, across self-managed, high-speed networks to transfer large amounts of production content, the Technology services provided need to be ‘always-on’ and deliver continuous transformation of our global estate. Our highly skilled team of engineers, administrators, analysts, developers and project managers are responsible for a wide array of bespoke and industry standard tools, providing our clients with the most efficient and innovative technologies in our sector.

What does a Business Analyst do at Hogarth?

Hogarth Worldwide is looking for a Business Analyst with experience working in an Agile development environment to join our Technology Transformation team, to work directly on an organisation-wide change project through new software implementation.

Our aim is to ensure Hogarth is able to offer a best-in-class solutions to our employees and clients. As we look to make our technology ever more central to everything we do, we are looking for a Business Analyst that can work closely with internal stakeholders and the Hogarth technology team to deliver our ambitious roadmap.

Key Role Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have a crucial role on this finance and business transformation project, including:

• Work with key users from within Hogarth to gain an understanding of required business processes and system requirements
• Gain an understanding of our primary technical platforms and confidently discuss their features, limitations and long-term product roadmap
• Work closely with our Product Development team to clearly communicate stakeholder requirements and act as proxy-Product Owner where required
• Work closely with our Commercial & Client Services teams to translate data and configuration requirements that will support the successful capture and transformation of commercial data into a global standardised way of working
• Become the interface between the Business Teams and Product Configuration team to analyse and validate data ahead of onboarding activities
• Provide use cases, business processes and recommendations for Product Team. Including the preparation of user journeys, UX and workflows to support the Product teams and vendors.
• Analyse and build accurate and detailed as-is and to-be business models incorporating process and benefit analysis
• Help develop a standardised way of working, that will work for all Hogarth offices globally
• Capture business objectives, KPIs & key metrics for performance and data requirements

Requirements

• Extensive experience in business analysis, within a finance and/or commercial setting is highly preferable
• Experience in both agile and waterfall product development environments building enterprise grade web applications
• Experience defining and documenting requirements
• Experience supporting system integrations
• Experience working and communicating with both business users and development teams
• Good understanding of agile artefacts and processes such as user stories, product backlogs, scrum, release/sprint planning
• Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to be able to deal with stakeholders at differing technical levels
• Comfortable running workshops and understanding requirements from end users
• Ability to prioritise activities and manage complex projects and dependencies

Hogarth Values

Heart and Soul: We love what we do. We bring energy and enthusiasm to all our work. We push boundaries, we are never satisfied and always want to find a better way.

Hands on: We don’t wait for things to happen, we get on with it. We are pragmatic and don’t have an ego. We do what it takes to get the job done to the highest standards.

Honest: We are straightforward; we speak openly and clearly. We operate with integrity and live up to our promises.

Happy family: We enjoy working together. We look out for our colleagues. We are an eclectic bunch. We want to work with people from many cultures and demand great things of each other. Even when things get tough, we don’t lose perspective or our sense of humour.

Hungry: We are an inquisitive community. We want to create an environment which inspires ourselves and others to be better. It is important to continuously challenge ourselves and our ways of working. We aim to provide staff with the opportunities to develop and learn.

Find out more at www.hogarthww.com/culture

The Package

• 25 days holiday
• Private Medical Care (Bupa)
• Life Assurance – four times annual salary
• Pension Scheme
• An extra day leave on your Birthday
• Employee Assistance Programme
• WPP Group Discounts
• Travel Season Ticket Loan
• Gym Discounts
• Mortgage Advice – In partnership with Charles Cameron and Associate
• 1 Volunteering day per year

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Inclusion and Impact

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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