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Business Analyst

Location: 

London, GB

Department or practice area:  Change

The opportunity for you

 

Join us in a role where your analysis, insight, and curiosity will directly influence how the firm evolves. As a Business Analyst within our Change function, you’ll partner with teams across the business to understand their needs, shape requirements, and support the delivery of smarter processes, better systems, and high‑quality services. If you enjoy bringing clarity to complexity and helping people move from ideas to real‑world outcomes, this role offers plenty of variety and impact.

 

Key responsibilities

 

Business Analysis

  • Lead the discovery and analysis of business problems and improvement opportunities
  • Document current and future state processes using BPMN
  • Elicit, define and manage business, functional and non‑functional requirements
  • Translate business needs into clear, structured specifications for technical and business teams

 

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Build strong relationships with stakeholders across legal practice groups and Business Services
  • Facilitate workshops, interviews and working groups to gather insight and drive consensus
  • Present findings, recommendations and solution options to senior stakeholders

 

Project Delivery

  • Support delivery across the full project lifecycle, working closely with Project Managers and Change Managers
  • Manage and lead on user acceptance testing (UAT), including test scripts, execution coordination and defect triage
  • Assess business readiness and contribute to go‑live planning and BAU transition activities

 

Knowledge, skills and experience

 

  • Proven experience as a Business Analyst delivering IT and/or business change projects.
  • Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to simplify complexity.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to convey information clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
  • Experience facilitating discussions and workshops.
  • Ability to work independently, prioritise workload and manage multiple assignments.
  • Adaptable in approach and able to work to different project delivery methodologies.
  • Experience in working with diverse stakeholders, ideally across multiple locations.
  • A can-do attitude and a willingness to learn and develop skills and collaborate effectively with other Change Team members.

 

Preferable but not essential:

  • Experience within a law firm or professional services environment.
  • Knowledge of legal operations, legal technology platforms or workflow solutions.
  • Business Analysis certification (BCS, IIBA or equivalent).

 

Benefits

 

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer; 

 

  • Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week) 
  • Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata). 
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child). 

 

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available. 

 

Our culture

 

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation.  We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team.  We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

 

The way we work

 

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.  

 

Taylor Wessing

 

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition. 

 

With 1250+ lawyers, 350+ partners, 26 offices and 16 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Change  team, with the addition of a Business Analyst.

 

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