Business Analyst (M&A Projects)
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Business Analyst (M&A Projects) at Sword Group: Glasgow, Royaume-Uni; Hybride; Contrat; Senior; Opérations et gestion de projet. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: Glasgow, Royaume-Uni, Hybride
- Role classification: Opérations et gestion de projet, Contrat, Senior
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-05-28.
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Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving real transformation change within our clients. We use proven technology, specialist teams and domain expertise to build solid technical foundations across platforms, data and business applications. We have a passion for using technology to solve business problems, working in partnership with our clients to help in achieving their goals.
To support significant M&A and Integration projects across a range of domain sectors, this ongoing contract opportunity will provide strategic business analysis services to business partners, ensuring technology is deployed effectively to support the work of the organization, challenging conventional wisdom, uncovering root causes of problems and defining the changes that will accrue real business benefits. Assuring the delivery of business benefits and preventing unwise investments in the wrong solutions and effectively manage the delivery of low and medium risk projects.
• Act as expertise holder for quality assurance and business analysis processes and best practices.
• Continuously evolve and refine related business and operational processes to optimize quality, timeliness, efficiency and cost
effectiveness.
• Work closely with colleagues across all disciplines and functions to identify opportunities to solve business problems and improve
business performance through application of IT and IM solutions or through adoption of new technology.
• Frame solutions in terms of costs, benefits and implementation specifics. Obtain stakeholder buy-in and initiate projects to deliver solutions.
• Perform business process workflow modelling to define as-is and to-be processes, identifying process pain points to be addressed. Develop solution specifications and define changes to processes, organization and technology.
• Oversee delivery of projects, working with project managers, vendors, subject matter experts and other stakeholders, to ensure solutions are delivered as specified and in line with agreed costs and timescales.
• Ensure delivered solutions are embedded into the business and benefits are achieved as planned.
• Present a professional approach in stakeholder communications in order to build strong relationships.
• Utilise strong influencing and negotiation skills, involving interaction and co-operation with business and IT colleagues, to agree solutions which satisfy business needs and are sufficiently sustainable, secure and cost effective.