Business Analyst - Data

Monthly Gross Salary From €3,000 Join a forward-thinking team at the heart of our data transformation journey. As a Senior Business Analyst in our Data Delivery team, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how data is managed, governed, and leveraged across the firm—driving smarter decisions, operational efficiency, and innovation. About the Role You’ll work across business and technology teams to analyse processes, gather and define requirements, and support the delivery of high-quality data products. This role goes beyond traditional business analysis: you’ll be instrumental in designing and optimising data flows, supporting data mapping requirements, ensuring robust data governance, and supporting the full data management lifecycle. From strategic discovery work to hands-on delivery support, you’ll help ensure our data initiatives are aligned with business needs and deliver real value. What You’ll Do Analyse and optimise business processes, with a focus on how data is captured, transformed, and consumed across the firm. Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to elicit both business and technical data requirements. Define and document functional and non-functional requirements for data products, including data quality, security, and compliance needs. Support delivery teams with clear acceptance criteria and robust documentation to ensure traceability and quality assurance throughout the data lifecycle. Collaborate with data specialists, engineers, and product owners to shape data product roadmaps and deliver solutions that enable better decision-making. Enable change and user adoption through collaboration, creating user journeys and supporting business change initiatives. Build strong relationships across IT, business functions, and legal practice groups to ensure alignment and shared outcomes. What We’re Looking For 5–7 years’ experience in business analysis, ideally in legal, professional services, or similarly regulated sectors. Demonstrable experience working on data-centric projects, including data ingestions, data governance, and data quality initiatives. Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex data requirements for technical and non-technical audiences. Proficiency in Agile and Waterfall methodologies Experience with tools like Azure DevOps or Jira. A collaborative mindset and a passion for data-driven improvement. What We Offer Office in an attractive location- right now we’re a team of about 100 people. - Need to drive in? We've got shared parking spots available Mostly remote—just coordinate with your team to find what works best Get an extra 6% on top of your monthly base salary to spend how you want—whether it’s for wellness, learning, investments or other perks Enjoy a daily meal allowance of €8.50 for every day you work—fully covered by us Extra days off to help you recharge Life assurance to support your loved ones if the unexpected happens Get up to 20 days off with full pay for sickness or caring for dependents Earn a yearly performance bonus based on how you do Daily office refreshments to keep you fueled throughout the day Well-being support with helpful apps and an Employee Assistance Program Events and workshops on different themes throughout the year Volunteering and charity activities We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. If you’re passionate about data and want to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you. Inclusion Freshfields is an equal opportunities employer and all applications received by the firm will be considered by the firm on the basis of their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background. All offers of employment will be conditional on the candidate having/securing the right to work in the UK and providing the firm with evidence of that right (as required by the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006) prior to employment commencing. Freshfields is a Ban the Box employer. We ask applicants to disclose criminal convictions only when a conditional job offer is made. A conviction does not automatically lead to withdrawal of the offer: we make decisions on a case by case basis and take a number of factors into account (eg the role you are applying for and the circumstances of the offence).