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As a Graduate Business Analyst, you’ll enter an environment that provides an exceptional platform to launch your career.
Roke is a leading technology and engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Industry 4.0 through our Futures business and Intelligence-as-a-Service. You’ll be joining our Defence Business Unit, supporting our customers to ensure that innovative and evidence-based solutions to problems are developed for the UK Armed Forces.
About the role
You’ll be a recent graduate with an exposure or interest in taking an analytical approach to the customer’s requirements. You will first seek to understand their needs before developing and then implementing analysis methodologies to identify and assess potential solutions.
This role sits within the Information Advantage area of our Defence Business Unit which develops and delivers products, services and analysis to enhance the situational awareness and decision making. The team you join is crucial in understanding the customers’ needs in order to direct our research and development and deliver our innovative solutions. They investigate business systems and courses of action for both our client and Roke’s own product development.
The projects you will be involved with will include working both autonomously and as part of a team, this may include teams with a mixture of specialisms where you may provide a key link between the deep engineering community and the customer. You’ll present your analysis to customers and contribute to the writing of customer and technical reports.
As a Graduate Business Analyst, you’ll spend the first six weeks of your time in a specially created boot camp that equips you with the fundamental skills required to succeed at Roke. After this, you’ll join a live project, continue to receive training, and start to contribute directly, building client relationships and supporting bidding activities to win new business. Your graduate scheme will last two years and provide plenty of variety, giving you the opportunity to develop a portfolio that can be used to showcase your developing skills during regular salary reviews.
The key requirements
- A recent degree-level qualification
- A demonstratable analytical mindset
- Strong verbal and written communication skills including writing technical documents (desirable) and delivering presentations to a range of audiences
- The ability to break down complex problems into a clear structure
- An interest in developing skills in both quantitative and qualitative analysis
- A curious nature and eagerness to learn
Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that’s our mission, passion, and motivation.
Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you’ll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last four years, we intend to double our headcount again by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.
With us you’ll have the opportunity to develop professionally and technically, whilst pushing the boundaries of innovation. Making the extraordinary, every day.
Where you’ll work…
Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you’ll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate, concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking, an on-site gym and sports field.
The benefits and perks
- Hybrid working: A minimum of 40% of your monthly hours working at your base/client location, subject to role requirements
- A generous relocation/settling in allowance to help you either move to the local area and/or settle in to your new role
- Flexi-time: Working hours to suit you and your life
- Annual bonus: Based on profit share and personal performance
- Healthcare Cash Plan Cover: helping to cover the costs of routine healthcare
- Holiday: 25 days plus public holidays and your birthday off
- Chemring Share Save: Monthly savings into a 3- or 5-year plan.
