About the Role
ITV Studios is seeking a Business Analyst on a fixed-term contract to help shape the future direction of media and post-production services by exploring innovative cloud-based workflows and AI tooling. This role involves leading user-focused analysis, defining proofs of concept, pilots, and product evolutions to streamline processes and enhance creativity.
Responsibilities
- Understand current business processes, structures, and tooling, validating understanding and assumptions with users, and identifying pain points and opportunities.
- Document findings through standard analysis deliverables (business process modelling, stakeholder matrices, data flow models, etc.).
- Define and prioritize detailed functional and non-functional requirements.
- Define detailed acceptance criteria and oversee test processes to ensure delivered functionality conforms to user requirements, standards, and expectations.
- Undertake gap analysis to identify training requirements and partner with business change to ensure user readiness.
- Work with Product Manager and project teams to capture, detail, and prioritize backlogs of ongoing change to align with strategic goals.
- Cultivate strong trusted relationships with stakeholders across the company, including technology peers, business users, and senior management.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in a Business Analysis or related field such as product or delivery.
- Experience working in a media production or post-production environment.
- Familiarity with media asset management, post production processes, video and audio transfer, transcode, delivery, and archiving processes.
- Strong analytical skills, including business process analysis, data, and financial analysis.
- Ability to elicit business requirements using a range of techniques, including collaborative workshops and stakeholder interviews.
- Willingness to dive deep into complex data, transforming ambiguity into absolute clarity.
- Ability to distill complex narratives and high-level business noise into clear actionable requirements.
- Skilled in writing testable user stories using Gherkin syntax and utilizing diverse prioritization frameworks (e.g., MoSCoW, RICE, WSJF) effectively to gain consensus.
- Understanding of agile methodologies.
- Strong written and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to a variety of audiences.
- Experience in financial analysis and modelling.
- Experience working with cloud storage and media toolsets.
- Experience working with AI solutions and their integration into an existing tech stack.
- Experience working as a component of a cross-functional team, building effective relationships with peers and colleagues to ensure collaborative delivery.
- Excellent communication skills, including presentations and reports tailored to diverse audiences up to executive level.
Skills
- Business Analysis
- Product Management
- Delivery
- Media Production
- Post Production
- Media Asset Management
- Video Transfer
- Audio Transfer
- Transcoding
- Archiving
- Business Process Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Financial Analysis
- Requirements Elicitation
- Agile Methodologies
- Gherkin Syntax
- MoSCoW
- RICE
- WSJF
- Cloud Storage
- AI Solutions
- Cross-functional Teamwork
- Presentation Skills
- Report Writing
Location
- White City, London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 9 Month Fixed-Term Contract
Experience Level
- 3+ years in Business Analysis or related field
Benefits
- Flexible working with a range of options
- Generous holiday allowance, with option to buy more
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Competitive pension contribution
- Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
- Wellbeing and volunteering days
- Opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life
About the Company
- ITV Studios is a global content business, shaping culture and known for its productions worldwide and leadership in digital streaming.
- The Studios Technology team shapes and delivers the technology that powers the global content business, including tools for content creation and systems for content discovery and sales.
- The Future Post Production project focuses on transforming Post Production and Media Asset Management through a cross-functional team.
- ITV promotes a collaborative culture, open to new ideas, with a focus on learning and innovation.
Equal Opportunity
- ITV is for everyone.
- ITV strongly encourages applications for this role from disabled people.
- As a Disability Confident Leader, if you meet the minimum criteria for a role and you have declared that you are disabled, ITV will guarantee to take you to the next stage.
- ITV is happy to discuss any support/personalisation needed during the application and selection process as part of reasonable adjustments.
