Full-Time
Business Analyst
Data Science & AI
Posted on 9/18/2025
BSI
5,001-10,000 employees
Global standards and business improvement partner
No salary listed
Cambridge, UK
Hybrid
2 days a week in-office, hybrid arrangement.
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- 2+ years in business analysis.
- Understanding of business analysis, Data Science/AI, Change Management, and project delivery methods.
- Business acumen, requirements analysis, objective/goal setting, and communication skills.
- Ability to challenge, analyze, and problem-solve, with attention to detail.
- Process mapping, workshop facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to simplify complex ideas and manage benefits.
- Elicit, document, and manage business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Facilitate ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ process analysis and customer journey definition.
- Lead stakeholder discussions to resolve requirements and support business case production.
- Define and challenge project vision, objectives, scope, outcomes, and success criteria.
- Build relationships to align solutions with business strategy, target operating model, and enterprise architecture.
- Ensure benefits management, adherence to best practices, and use of appropriate analysis methods.
- Contribute to methodology improvement and provide input to risk management and project reporting.
- Collaborate with the Project Manager to ensure timely and on-budget project delivery.
- Experience with technical teams, enterprise IT systems, data, and organizational change.
- Business case development skills and relevant qualifications (Business Analysis, Change Management, People Management, BCS, CBAP, PRINCE2, MSP).
- Initiative, collaboration, creativity, customer focus, critical thinking, trust, openness, and integrity.
BSI is a global standards and business-improvement partner that helps organizations grow by addressing society’s critical issues, from climate change to trustworthy AI. It works by developing and applying standards, certifications, training, assessment, and assurance services that enable clients to manage risk, improve governance, and demonstrate compliance. Its products operate through a worldwide network of experts, industry groups, and governments, delivering audits, certifications, and advisory guidance to help clients meet specified requirements and improve performance. What sets BSI apart is its scale and breadth: a 100-year history, a global community of 15,000 experts and 77,500+ clients across many sectors, and a collaborative approach with regulators, industry bodies, and stakeholders to implement standards in real-world operations. The company’s goal is to help clients fulfil theirs by creating trust and accelerating progress toward a fair society and a sustainable world.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
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Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
1901
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Amendment 4 mandatory October 2026 drives nine-month training and certification revenue surge through compliance window.
- ASTM Compass integration expands BSI standards reach globally, creating recurring platform licensing revenue streams.
- Built Environment Competence Hub positions BSI as central authority for construction supply chain compliance certification.
What critics are saying
- ASTM partnership commoditizes BSI standards, eroding exclusivity as global users access via unified platform.
- Nature markets fail to scale private investment despite standards, exposing BSI to reputational damage.
- AI agentic systems outpace BSI standardization roadmap, rendering assurance frameworks obsolete within 12 months.
What makes BSI unique
- BS 7671 Amendment 4 establishes BSI as UK electrical safety authority amid renewable energy integration.
- Nature Investment Standards (Flex 701-704) backed by Defra unlock £56bn private capital in emerging markets.
- Mark of Trust for data centers addresses $584bn industry with modular, recurring certification framework.
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Health Insurance
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Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Holidays
Hybrid Work Options
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Paid Maternity Leave
Paid Paternity Leave
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Bereavement Leave
Learning and Development Opportunities
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Company News
BSI releases government-backed standards for biodiversity and nutrient credits. BSI has released two new nature market standards, in a move designed to give investors and buyers the confidence to invest in the UK's nature market. Both standards are backed by the UK Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Published 30th March 2026 Two new standards designed to bring consistency and clarity to UK nature markets are now available for adoption, in a move that could help unlock private investment in nature recovery at scale. The British Standards Institution (BSI) has confirmed the launch of BSI Flex 702 v2.0, covering biodiversity credits, and BSI Flex 704 v2.0, addressing nutrient benefits. Both standards are now ready for adoption by those involved in nature investment, including suppliers or developers of nature projects and market intermediaries, investors and buyers. The releases build on BSI Flex 701 v2.0 - an overarching principles framework published in March 2025. Together, the three standards set out requirements for designing, operating, generating, trading and storing nature credits, with the aim of providing the integrity baseline that investors and buyers need before committing capital. The push for standards in nature markets echoes efforts already underway in voluntary carbon markets, where integrity concerns have prompted similar moves to establish common frameworks and independent oversight. The UK Government set out six principles for corporate carbon credit use in November 2024, recognising a 'clear and appropriate role' for businesses to use credits as part of their net-zero strategies. On the new nature market standards, Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds said: "Nature is not separate from our economy, it is the foundation of it. These new, world-leading standards from BSI will give businesses the confidence they need to invest in nature recovery, knowing that the environmental benefits are real, measurable and properly delivered." According to research by the Green Finance Institute, public spending alone cannot close the UK's nature finance gap, estimated at £56bn over the decade to 2032. Unlocking private capital at scale depends on investors and buyers having confidence that the environmental benefits they are funding are real and measurable. BSI CEO Susan Taylor Martin said: "Protecting nature is vital for our environment, well-being and the economy. BSI's high-integrity standards are designed to provide the clarity, consistency and rigour needed to increase confidence in markets and help unlock investment. This marks a major milestone as we release new standards, guidance, and share stories from early adopters to support the application of good practice in UK nature markets. We thank all those involved who have been leading the way." Consultations and pilots Ask edie... BSI revealed that a further standard, BSI Flex 705 v1.0, is now open for consultation until 19 May. It addresses engagement with local communities for suppliers of nature-based projects, and how to deliver shared benefits in ways that strengthen trust, legitimacy and long-term project success. BSI has also published findings from a pilot programme testing the standards in the real world. Early adopters said they provided a consistent integrity baseline, encouraged transparency and long-term thinking, and offered a practical roadmap for emerging markets. To learn more about early adopter case studies and assessment guidance, visit the Nature Investment Standards Hub.
GOV.UK nature market benefits: lessons from the Evenlode project. 30 Mar 2026 Nature markets can provide farmers with an additional source of income, as organisations look for new ways to meet environmental goals. Through those markets, farmers and land managers can be paid for the environmental benefits their land delivers, such as carbon storage, habitat, water quality and natural flood management. These benefits can be measured, valued and sold as credits or units. This creates new opportunities to generate income alongside food production. Many of the actions involved, such as improving soils, restoring habitats, managing water and supporting wildlife, are already part of everyday land management. The level of income a farmer can generate will depend on factors such as the suitability of the land, the outcomes that can be delivered, whether the farm is part of a larger project, the length of the agreement, and demand from buyers. Payments are typically made over time rather than upfront, and many projects combine different revenue streams, such as carbon, biodiversity and water, to create a more balanced and resilient return. As nature markets develop, it becomes increasingly important that environmental outcomes are real, measurable and delivered with confidence. At the moment, different approaches and methods are used across the market. This can make it harder for land managers, buyers and investors to compare projects and understand what 'good' looks like. To address this, the British Standards Institution (BSI), working with Defra and the devolved administrations, developed the Nature Investment Standards programme. In March 2025, it published the first standard in the suite: the Overarching Principles and Framework standard, known as Flex 701. Flex 701 sets out the core requirements for high-integrity nature markets. These include transparency, good governance, robust measurement and clear environmental outcomes. It is designed to give those operating in nature markets, such as project suppliers, nature credit buyers and other initiatives like crediting programmes, a consistent framework to work from, helping to build trust across the market. Further standards are available for biodiversity and nutrient benefits. Together, these set out the specific requirements for these markets and help them operate in a more joined-up way. The Evenlode Landscape Recovery project. The Evenlode Landscape Recovery project brings together more than 50 farmers and land managers across around 3,000 hectares in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. The project is restoring and reconnecting habitats across the landscape, including floodplain meadows, wetlands, woodland and river systems, while continuing to support food production. Alongside this work, the project is exploring ways to earn income from carbon, biodiversity, water quality and natural flood management. At this stage, nature markets alone often do not cover the full cost of the work. Public funding through Landscape Recovery is still an important part of the model. It helps pay for delivery and running costs while the market develops. This reflects the fact that these markets are new. The Evenlode Landscape Recovery team joined Defra and BSI's Early Adopter Programme, part of the Nature Investment Standards programme, to test how their project aligned with Flex 701. For them, this was not about starting from scratch. It involved reviewing their existing approach, identifying any gaps, and understanding what future buyers or investors might expect. One challenge they identified was that the markets they want to work in, for example biodiversity, carbon and water, can feel fragmented. The standards provided a common reference point across these areas. The team also considered how to be transparent in a way that is meaningful and proportionate, while protecting commercially sensitive information. The Early Adopter process helped the team define what good practice looks like in emerging areas such as natural flood management and soil carbon, where markets are still developing. Alongside funding from Landscape Recovery, it supported work on governance and community engagement. It also helped them develop approaches that can be repeated and, over time, independently assured. For a project spanning multiple farms within one catchment, a shared framework has clear practical value. Actions taken by one farmer can affect others nearby. A consistent approach across the project makes it easier for buyers to compare opportunities and increases confidence that environmental outcomes are credible. The pilot has also helped shape practical guidance and supporting materials for others looking to align with the standards. This means the learning from projects like Evenlode can support others considering similar approaches to nature markets. Watch the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vg1-ObfsCA(In this video, the Evenlode Landscape Recovery project team explain how it used the BSI Nature Investment Standards Early Adopter Programme to test its approach to nature markets in practice.) Interaction with government schemes. If you are considering entering a nature market, you should understand how this may interact with existing government agreements. You cannot sell an environmental enhancement that is already funded through an agri-environment scheme as a biodiversity unit for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) or as a nutrient credit for nutrient mitigation. However, you may be able to deliver additional environmental improvements on the same land alongside an existing agreement, depending on what is already being funded. If you are considering Biodiversity Net Gain or nutrient mitigation alongside public schemes, GOV.UK guidance explains how these payments can be combined in practice and what to consider when establishing your baseline. Getting started. For farmers interested in learning more about nature markets, a first step is to understand what opportunities may be available on your land and how they could fit with your wider farm business. Defra commissioned the Green Finance Institute to provide free support through its Farming Toolkit for Assessing Nature Market Opportunities. The toolkit is designed for farmers in England and explains what nature markets are, what opportunities already exist, and the questions to think through before taking part. It also sets out 10 stages that farmers may need to work through when developing a project, from assessing land opportunities and measuring outcomes through to working with buyers and signing legal agreements. Many nature market projects are developed with others.For example, through farmer clusters, cooperatives or larger landscape projects. That can help bring farms together, create projects at a scale that is more attractive to buyers, and share knowledge and costs across the group. If you want to explore this further, you can: * read the GOV.UK guidance on combining environmental payments * look at the BSI Nature Investment Standards to understand the framework being developed to support fair and transparent nature markets.
BSI standards join ASTM compass(r) platform. The partnership signifies one of the platform's largest-ever content additions. Mar 27, 2026 The British Standards Institution (BSI) and ASTM International have partnered to offer BSI standards on ASTM Compass. BSI standards are among Europe's most well-known and widely adopted standards and are now live on ASTM's proprietary standards database. ASTM Compass access to BSI standards empowers technical teams to reduce error and speed up design cycles while ensuring compliance with global industry and regulatory expectations. "We're thrilled to partner with ASTM to make BSI standards available on ASTM Compass," says Neil Musk, president of BSI Knowledge Solutions. "As two of the world's leading standards bodies, this integration provides easier access, greater efficiency when cross-referencing workflows, and streamlined compliance management. We're looking forward to this expansion of BSI standards reach and how it will help organizations to drive innovation." BSI offers standards in fields ranging from construction and ICT to manufacturing, transport, energy, and healthcare, with many standards like BS EN ISO 9001, BS EN ISO 14001, and BS/ISO/IEC 27001 cutting across several sectors. BSI standards reach the wider market quickly, and their vast, ever-expanding volume of work is now accessible through powerful, dynamic workflow tools only offered by ASTM Compass. Stuart Radcliffe, vice president of sales & marketing at ASTM International, notes that the partnership is a natural fit given the many overlapping topic areas of their standards. These shared fields include building and construction, energy, sustainability, and more. "This expansion of ASTM Compass to include BSI standards underscores our commitment to supporting global interoperability and engineering excellence," says Radcliffe. "With this addition of BSI, our customers now have the opportunity to expand their access to internationally recognized standards in a single, unified environment." Media Inquiries: Gavin O'Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; Release #13078
Can assurance help build AI systems that The Partnership can trust? Key insights from the AI Standards Hub Global Summit in Glasgow. Jacob Pratt March 26, 2026 AI systems are being deployed at scale across every sector of the economy. But as AI systems become more capable, and are deployed and used in more high-stakes contexts, The Partnership need to be sure that they will do what they are supposed to do, safely and reliably. In order for AI to deliver on its potential, and do so responsibly, The Partnership need to develop comprehensive infrastructure to create standards, evaluation frameworks, and independent oversight mechanisms that allow The Partnership to verify these systems are safe, reliable, and accountable. Last week Partnership on AI partnered with The Alan Turing Institute, the British Standards Institution, the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and four other summit partners to co-host the AI Standards Hub Global Summit in Glasgow. The Partnership joined AI assurance experts, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss how The Partnership build the assurance infrastructure that promotes the development of high-quality, safe AI systems, and empowers both citizens and enterprises to adopt them with calibrated trust: a clear-eyed understanding of AI's capabilities and its limitations... The Partnership co-hosted a workshop on AI assurance with the UK's National Physical Laboratory, building on NPL's recently announced Centre for AI Measurement and PAI's recently released papers on Strengthening the AI Assurance Ecosystem. Four key themes emerged from its conversations. The author, jacob Pratt (left) in a workshop panel discussion on AI Assurance at the AI Standards Hub Summit in Glasgow. Assurance can't stop at deployment. Assurance at each level of the AI value chain helps to build justified trust in AI systems, ensuring that they are both trusted and trustworthy. Yet The Partnership heard from AI assurers that the majority of assurance activity has focused on evaluating systems before they are deployed. Post-deployment monitoring, despite being a foundational requirement for any credible assurance framework, remains the least requested assurance service in the ecosystem. As people trust AI agents to take more real-world actions, failures in planning, tool-use and execution may go unseen, so the need for real-time failure detection and ongoing assurance is especially crucial. Deployers aren't engaging independent assurers enough. That needs to change. Demand for external/independent assurance services is currently low. This isn't because deployers do not care about risk but because the ecosystem has yet to mature. In its recently released paper Demand and Incentives for External AI Assurance, The Partnership has mapped the reasons why demand has stalled: a lack of clear regulatory expectations, limited awareness of what independent assurance can offer, concerns about exposing proprietary systems, and limited knowledge of the risks of emerging systems. The Partnership has also mapped out policy levers that can increase demand, and so The Partnership asked workshop attendees what actions they see as the most promising. Developing legislation was the most popular option, chosen by 46% of 76 respondents, with greater transparency through use case registers and incident reporting mechanisms coming in a close second at 41%. Promoting insurance and providing legal safe harbor for assured systems were less popular choices, perhaps reflecting that these mechanisms are less well understood, or perceived as less effective. However, The Partnership view all these initiatives as worth exploring further and educating the field on. Frontier model risks demand state of the art evaluation standards. External assurance is perhaps most critical for frontier AI models. The irreversible, high-stakes nature of frontier model risks, such as chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) risks, demands pre-deployment evaluations conducted by trusted, independent assurers. Just as cybersecurity defenses must continuously evolve to keep pace with emerging threats, AI evaluations must advance alongside rapidly shifting model capabilities to remain useful. Standards will be crucial in enabling this, but they need to be adaptable. Rigid and prescriptive standards risk becoming obsolete as the technology moves forward. At the Summit, The Partnership heard how process standards that establish how rigorous evaluations are conducted may provide this adaptability, though this will need to be paired with trusted assurers with the authority to communicate their expert judgements. The Partnership explore how to build justified trust in assurers in its latest paper. "Just as cybersecurity defenses must continuously evolve to keep pace with emerging threats, AI evaluations must advance alongside rapidly shifting model capabilities to remain useful." Agentic systems are outpacing standards that should govern them. Coding agents, autonomous task completion systems, and other agentic tools are being adopted faster than standard frameworks can adapt, with formal ISO standardization of AI agent guidance still in the early roadmapping stage. The rush to adopt these systems is quicker than official standardization can keep up, which is why voluntary frameworks, like those developed by multistakeholder organizations like ours, are essential to filling that gap. This is what The Partnership is advancing with its work in Prioritizing Real-Time Failure Detection in AI Agents. At the Summit, The Partnership heard people calling for actions that speed up the development of standards, build out the supporting assurance infrastructure, and increase demand for external assurance along the AI system lifecycle. Glasgow was a valuable catalyst, but challenges remain: 52% of workshop attendees identified low demand for assurance as one of the biggest gaps in the ecosystem, driven largely by a lack of market incentives. Given the scale of AI's impacts today, closing that gap requires fast, coordinated action between policymakers, standards developers, assurers, industry, academia and civil society - before further systems reach the public without adequate assurance that they are safe and effective. PAI is committed to building a strong AI Assurance Ecosystem. The Partnership believe this will reduce harms to consumers, foster transparent and efficient markets, and ultimately drive greater adoption of high-quality AI systems that work for people and society. As a multistakeholder convener, The Partnership connect experts from across the ecosystem to develop guidance and recommendations that inform the responsible development and deployment of AI. Its role is especially crucial in this fragmented, evolving area. To learn more and keep up with its work in this space, sign up for its newsletter.
Comments sought on forthcoming workplace strategy standard. The British Standards Institute (BSI) is inviting comments from interested parties on the draft of its upcoming BS 8703 Facilities Management - Development of a workplace strategy. Produced by BSI's FMW/1 - Facilities Management committee, the nascent standard is designed to provide guidance for owners, operators and occupants in their decision-making towards an appropriate strategy for the management of their workplaces. "It identifies the questions and challenges to be addressed to enable owners, operators and occupants to determine their workplace strategy as a key input to a management of change process. It makes recommendations on practices to be adopted and explains the reasoning behind them." Intended for use by owners, operators or occupants and those acting on their behalf (eg, FMs), the standard has been produced in draft form and has entered a two-month window during which comments from those who would use the standard can have their say on its structure. It is not intended to cover some specialist environments such as hospitals and laboratories. The aims of BS 8703 are as follows: * To assist organisational decision-making in relation to the management of the workplace * To raise awareness of novel concepts and arrangements * To provide insights into evolving work practices and opportunities for innovation in the workplace; and * To promote a healthy, safe, secure and productive work environment that enhances the wellbeing of occupants, visitors and other users of the workplace. Interested parties have until 11th May to read the current draft of the standard and comment on its efficacy. Wednesday 18 March 2026 Wednesday 13 November 2024 Friday 21 October 2022 You may also be interested in... Monday 2 March 2026 Thursday 26 February 2026 Wednesday 25 February 2026 Wednesday 18 March 2026 Tuesday 17 March 2026 Monday 16 March 2026 Also filed in