We’re looking for a Business Analyst to join our Castle Fintech team, an exciting venture to assemble a new financial services platform. You’ll be a key member of an agile squad, working alongside the Product Owner and engineers to discover customer needs, design solutions and implement them.

What will you do as an Business Analyst at N Brown?

Work alongside the Product Owner you will be a key member of an agile squad. You’ll contribute to scope definition, business requirements capture and solution ideation.
Lead workshops to understand the needs of multiple stakeholders and to facilitate the negotiation of these needs into agreed requirements.
Carry out gap analysis to understand and highlight were solutions do and don’t meet needs
Assist in managing the roadmap and backlog, create high quality user stories that meet you and your squads definition of ready. You’ll have an eye for detail, helping to spot edge cases and applying a level of rigour to ensure we produce a high quality product.
Support the business stakeholders vision the future and understand the impact of technology change on their operations, contributing to definition and rolling out of updated business processes.
Assist in the preparation of user acceptance test plans and scenarios to ensure the solution delivered meets the business requirements/acceptance criteria.
Contribute to build a great company - the Castle FinTech division has its own ways of working and culture, and they are still evolving. Everyone plays an equal part in making Castle Fintech, everyone has a voice and can make a difference – we believe deeply in agile values.

What skills and experience will you have?

Proactive and collaborative team player, who enjoys working with people from across the organisation
Experience working in a complex business, on projects that have delivered solutions across multiple technologies.
Experience working within a squad based Agile environment .
Excellent analytical skills to identify creative and cost-effective solutions.
Experience of analysing and documenting complex business processes and supporting the resultant business change. As well as experience in clearly defining scope and writing user stories with acceptance criteria to reflect the agreed scope. * You will have experience in testing.
Ability to think both strategically and tactically.
Understand and respond to both end user and delivery team needs in rapidly changing business environments.

What type of person are we looking for?

Driven by boundless curiosity and experimentally minded, always starting with ‘why?’.
Tenacious and persistent, willing to go above and beyond to deliver great outcomes.
Focused and decisive, able to ruthlessly prioritise to stay on track.
Energised by collaboration and a champion of radical candour.
Work hard whilst maintain our sense of humour, and don't take ourselves too seriously.
Have a start-up attitude to getting stuff done.

What’s in it for you?

Hybrid working
24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
Annual bonus scheme
Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
A range of financial wellbeing support
Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice

N Brown – who we are and why work for us?

At N Brown, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by ‘championing inclusion, we’ll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer’. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture.

We’re a forward-thinking digital retailer with a financial services proposition to be proud of. We’re customer-obsessed, serving them through three core brands: JD Williams, Simply Be, and Jacamo. We’re experienced, with over 160 years of trading under our belt. We’re inclusive, as we believe in fashion without boundaries; and we’re sustainable, striving to make as little impact on the planet as possible.

In May 2024 we were delighted to be named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. We work hard to create a happy and inclusive culture for everyone and we’re so proud to have made this list - as voted for by our very own colleagues!

Ways of Working

We offer hybrid working which varies across the business depending on the role you’re in. Our Head Office is located in the Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre. So if you are travelling by train, tram or bus we’re perfectly located, plus we’re surrounded by cool cafes, trendy bars and the best places to eat!

Our working hours are 36.17 per week and our core working hours are between 10am - 4pm. Given we don’t have strict working hours you can find the working pattern that’s right for you.

Our promise to you:

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

What happens when you apply to a role at N Brown?

As soon as we receive your application, we’ll send you an email to let you know. We always aim to come back to you as soon as possible with an update and we really appreciate you taking the time to apply for a role with us. Good luck!