Overview

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in the analysis and design of innovative legal and business solutions, supporting strategic change initiatives across the firm. You will work closely with stakeholders at all levels to define business problems, explore solution options, and ensure alignment with the firm’s IT strategy and delivery framework. You will also support other analysts in the team and contribute to the continuous improvement of business analysis practices.

Walker Morris is a Leeds-headquartered UK law firm, operating internationally through a network of high quality, likeminded firms around the world. Those who know us say we are a different type of legal business. One not bound by convention, but one with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for breaking with tradition to deliver real competitive advantage.

The firm is growing at pace and this role is a pivotal appointment.It will play an influential role helping to drive the business forward towards Ambition 27 – an ambitious strategic vision which is underpinning significant double-digit growth.

You'll be joining at a crucial time for the business, and it will be attractive to experienced Business Analysts excited by the opportunity to play a really hands-on role in supporting strategic change and designing innovative solutions across the firm.

As the Senior Business Analyst, you will:

• Drive the feasibility, scoping, and requirements definition phases of complex projects.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews with stakeholders to elicit and validate requirements.
• Ensure alignment of business analysis activities with the firm’s delivery process.
• Produce and maintain high-quality documentation including business cases, scoping documents, requirements specifications and other business analysis artefacts.
• Support the development of delivery plans and contribute to testing, deployment, and post-implementation review phases.
• Identify and evaluate innovative legal tech solutions that align with business needs and client expectations.
• Conduct market research and vendor assessments for emerging technologies.
• Collaborate with legal teams to design and implement client-facing and internal solutions.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to the team and wider business
• Contribute to the development and refinement of BA tools, templates, and methodologies.
• Champion best practices in business analysis and change delivery.
• Support and deliver smaller-scale change initiatives, ensuring they are completed effectively and aligned with business objectives.

We are looking for:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a business analysis role, with a proven track record of delivering value across a range of business change and technology projects.
• Proven experience in a senior business analysis role, ideally within professional services or legal sector.
• Experience across the full enterprise project lifecycle, with particular focus on business analysis activities such as discovery, requirements gathering, solution design, and benefits realisation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience working with senior leadership.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think strategically and tactically.
• Strong documentation skills with experience producing amongst others business cases, scoping documents, process maps, and requirements specifications.
• Ability to manage and deliver smaller-scale changes independently, ensuring initiatives are completed effectively without requiring full project management oversight.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft 365 product suite.
• Experience with legal technology platforms (e.g., Aderant, NetDocs, HighQ, Kira, etc.) is preferred.
• Professional certifications (e.g., BCS, Agile BA, Lean Six Sigma) are desirable.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience.
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• Hybrid and flexible working for most roles with 40-60% of your time spent in the office.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to ensure our workforce represents our diverse society. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique capabilities and experiences to their work. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity.

We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to ask.

Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

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