Business Analyst - South Asia

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Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

GroupM is the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $63B in annual media investment through agencies Mindshare, MediaCom, Wavemaker, Essence and m/SIX, as well as the outcomes-driven programmatic audience company, Xaxis and data and technology company Choreograph. GroupM’s portfolio includes Data & Technology, Investment and Services, all united in a vision to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. By leveraging all the benefits of scale, the company innovates, differentiates and generates sustained value for our clients wherever they do business.

The GroupM IT team in WPP IT are the technology solutions partner for the GroupM group of agencies and are accountable for coordinating and assuring end-to-end change delivery, managing the GroupM IT technology life-cycle and innovation pipeline.

We're looking for the next generation of technology specialists. You'll be bright, energetic, and engaging by nature. You'll lead the business analysis activities in South Asia, working with both business and technology stakeholders on the business requirements, traceability, and process mapping of the wider WPP IT portfolio projects and programmes within the markets. You'll have a similar role in another company or be ready to step up into this role because your experience means you're ready for the challenge of leading a sub-region’s IT business analysis activities for the world's largest media buying company. 

What you'll be doing:

• You’ll develop and maintain a strong awareness of business activity across the Media Archetype in South Asia, and use this to drive insight into the value, business opportunity and strategy behind local and WPP IT portfolio projects.
• You’ll maintain and support the demand process within South Asia through liaising with the Activation & Engagement lead to ensure activity is properly shaped and accounts for variation in location market processes.
• You’ll be accountable for applying agreed methods to carry out investigations, analysis, review, and documentation in terms of business functions & processes, the information used & the data on which the information is based.
• You’ll be accountable for defining requirements for improving any aspect of the processes and systems and quantification of potential business benefits.
• You’ll be accountable for creating viable business requirements and acceptance criteria suitable for procurement / construction of information and communication systems. 
• You’ll be responsible for interpreting unstructured business needs and views into structured business requirements.
• You’ll be responsible for the quality of the analysis, requirements & acceptance criteria.
• You’ll ensure that requirements, traceability, and process mapping take place either proactively or through liaising with South Asia markets or vendor resources, providing examples of best practices and standards.
• You’ll build and maintain an understanding of business processes across the region and liaise with the process transformation hub to ensure WPP IT deployments to help South Asia resources engage and co-operate with the transformation hub.

What you'll need:

• Strong analytic skills, excellent communication & stakeholder relationship management skills
• Able to question & challenge users at all levels with confidence, to arrive at a clear, unambiguous view of requirements
• Must be willing & able to apply structured requirements analysis & modelling methods, in line with WPP Security, Risk, Policies & Standards.
• Strong business process mapping and improvement skills and data analysis
• Change implementation, planning and management
• Benefits assessment and management
• Non-functional needs analysis
• A tertiary degree in Computing or a similar discipline
• Fluent English oral and written communication skills

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, military/veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability. We believe in creating a dynamic work environment that values diversity and inclusion and strives to recruit a diverse slate of candidates to help us achieve that goal.

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