MI Consultant - Bristol

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft is looking to appoint an MI Consultant to join their MI Team based in Bristol.

Reporting to the MI Manager, this role will be the first point of contact for the end-to-end delivery of MI (Management Information) services to our clients, our business teams and supporting services, and to act as the first point of escalation for relevant stakeholders.

The role is expected to assess current and future requirements expected of the MI Team, achieved through a comprehensive understanding of:

• Our Client’s strategies and priorities
• Our businesses products, organisation and operating model
• The technical resources and IT and MI services currently available and in development;

The role will engage peer functions across client-facing and business services departments, and offer support and collaboration with external client-based teams.  The role is also expected to support commercial development opportunities, and MI-related audit activity.  The role balances organisational awareness with technical development experience, it requires practical application of business analysis and change management skills.  The role is intended to highlight areas of continual improvement within the portfolio of services offered by the MI Team, maintaining a clear focus on operational excellence and product development of high value to the business.

Role Responsibility

• Working across the business to analyse new requirements and assess the impact on the business operationally and technically
• Providing business analysis throughout the whole life cycle - requirements gathering, requirements analysis, writing functional specifications, development support and testing through to implementation and measuring business improvements
• Building and maintaining key relationships throughout the business whilst working closely with project managers and stakeholders to deliver effective solutions
• Acting as liaison between the business and technical staff
• Key contact as a subject matter expert (SME) on MI systems, processes, services, and their link to wider Business Services and Client-facing teams
• Support commercial tendering work, and the on-boarding of new clients into established IT and MI services
• Identify continual improvement across the MI function, and engage appropriate resources to effect change
• Report upwardly to MI Manager and IT Leadership team on performance, projects and initiatives

The Ideal Candidate

Skills and Experience

• Understanding and experience of legal business processes is highly desirable;
• Recent experience of business analysis, requirements engineering and process re-engineering;
• Strong analytical skills, able to think laterally to identify trends and make links between data from different sources;
• Solutions oriented and keen to take responsibility for delivery of effective solutions;
• Proficient with requirements capture and diagramming tools e.g.  Visio;
• Experience of workflow, case management, management information and knowledge management systems;
• Excellent organisational skills together with an ability to ensure that tasks are delivered on time and to the required standard;
• Able to work under pressure as part of a team, prioritising a heavy workload and meeting challenging deadlines;
• A collaborative approach to working with others together with the willingness to take on additional responsibilities as required by the business;
• Knowledge of the following technologies highly desirable : SQL, SSRS, Azure Dev Ops;
• Experience of data extraction, migration, reporting and / or analytical projects;

Personal Qualities

• Solid blend of business and technology insights, with a drive toward service delivery and operational excellence;
• Commercially aware, and able to see value of data in support of commercial initiatives;
• Strong written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex and technical messages in a format suitable for a wide range of audiences and purposes;
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop/maintain relationships with own team and influence stakeholders to senior levels;
• Commitment to continuous improvement, with the tenacity and motivation to actively seek and implement change to processes and products;
• Effective decision-making;

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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