Business Analyst

Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public and Finance Sectors, driving transformational 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. 

About the Role

As a Business Analyst, you will work at the heart of a data-driven transformation, helping the business make smarter, faster decisions through meaningful insight. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to gather requirements, interpret asset-driven data, and deliver Business Intelligence solutions that add real value.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning complexity into clarity – someone with a passion for data, strong analytical skills, and the confidence to communicate insights to a wide range of audiences.

As a Business Analyst, you will:

• Work closely with business and technical stakeholders to gather, document, and prioritise reporting and data requirements
• Act as a key link between operational teams and BI developers, ensuring solutions are accurate, relevant, and impactful
• Analyse and interpret complex asset and operational data (e.g. infrastructure, field, or engineering data) to support smarter decisions
• Build clear and contextualised visualisations and reports using Power BI or similar tools
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation through data-driven insights
• Promote the use of trusted data sources and consistent business terminology across the organisation
• Translate business needs into user stories, functional and non-functional requirements, use cases, and acceptance criteria

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, ideally within a data-rich or asset-heavy environment (e.g. energy, renewables, utilities, infrastructure, logistics)
• Demonstrable experience delivering solutions in Business Intelligence projects
• Experience working with and interpreting asset data
• A strong understanding of data quality and experience standardising complex data sets
• Proficiency in SQL for data extraction and manipulation
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Confident communicator, comfortable working with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to present data-driven insights and visualisations in a way that makes sense to business users

At Sword, our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development, and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success.  

We offer comprehensive benefits designed to support your professional development and enhance your overall quality of life.  In addition to a Competitive Salary, here's what you can expect as part of our benefits package: 

• Personalised Career Development: We create a development plan customised to your goals and aspirations, with a range of learning and development opportunities within a culture that encourages growth. 
• Flexible working: Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.  We can’t promise to always be able to meet every request, however, are keen to discuss your individual preferences to make it work where we can. 
• A Fantastic Benefits Package: This includes generous annual leave allowance, enhanced family friendly benefits, pension scheme, access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes, an employee assistance programme, discounted cash plan and more…. 

At Sword we are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer, ensuring that all applicants receive fair and equal consideration for employment, regardless of whether they meet every requirement. If you don’t tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying and highlight your transferable skills and experience. We embrace diversity in all its forms, valuing individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Your perspective and potential are important to us. 

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments.