Job Description
IT Service Analyst
Preston - hybrid working is offered where operationally feasible, after probation
Competitive salary, negotiable depending on your experience and expertise + benefits
Core Support hours are between 8am and 6pm on weekdays. Some additional on call rota support will be required.
Additional support hours mean that you will be required to be part of the On Call Rota - Monday-Friday 6pm-9pm, and weekends 9am - 12 noon, approximately once in every six-eight weeks.
Are you ready to bring your IT and customer service expertise to a role where your skills and unique perspective can make a lasting impact?
What Sets Us Apart
At MHA, we're about people first - our people, our clients, and the communities we serve. As one of the UK's top 15 accountancy firms and a proud member of Baker Tilly International, the 9th largest network in the world, we are a hub of global knowledge with a strong local commitment.
Our people-focused approach truly sets us apart. Here, you won't just be another face in the firm; you'll be part of an ambitious, driven team dedicated to continuous learning and growth. We invest in our people because they are the foundation of our success. We take immense pride in being awarded gold for Investors in People. This recognition reflects our deep commitment to nurturing talent and ensuring every individual feels valued and supported.
Qualification and Essential Skills
Qualifications:
- ITIL Foundation desirable
- Technical Certification such as CompTIA or equivalent desirable
Essential skills:
- Experience in a customer facing IT role
- Skilled in the creation and delivery of customer focused presentations and communications
- Experience working within an IT Managed Service environment
- A good general knowledge of end user technologies, e.g. PC's, Audio Visual, Mobile Phones, Telephone systems
- Experience working with ITIL service and support processes
- Strong analytical and diagnostic skills for problem resolution and root cause analysis
- A broad understanding of technology and a good level of awareness of technical concepts
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft products
- Any experience supporting business applications would be an advantage
Purpose of the Role
The coordination and assurance of all IT Services, ensuring high quality, consistent, professional and service level driven support is delivered to the MHA staff and partners (customers).
The role of the IT Support Analyst is to provide outstanding service to our customers. Focusing on your aligned region, offices and customers to gain a deep understanding of their ways of working and ensuring that IT services deliver exceptional value.
Support the delivery of an IT service that is reliable, resilient, scalable and secure and puts the customer's experience at the forefront.
Build great relationships with our key customers in your region and be known as the 1st point of escalation for any service queries. Where complaints do arise, ensure that the Service Managers are informed promptly.
A key part of the role is to help our customers to achieve value from IT through improved understanding of the tools available. Through the delivery of workshops, knowledge materials and focused communications. You will be expected to tailor these to the specific needs of your region, offices and customers.
Service Desk - In your role you will monitor the queues in your region and ensure that expectations are being met or managed. You will not personally fix each ticket, but you will be responsible for progress and escalation where necessary. You will take calls and log them into our ITSM and allocate them to the relevant colleague if you are unable to do a first-time fix.
The role covers several offices within a region and therefore weekly UK travel, and Agile working will be necessary.
Main Responsibilities
Ensure that all the Service to your offices and customers are delivered in a customer centric manner that is also secure, efficient and cost-effective. The activities associated with this include:
- Help our customers with questions and allow them to get the most out of our systems by resolving their issues so they can focus on what is important
- Provide high quality support to customers by email, phone and in person
- Record, update and resolve support tickets and service requests
- Identify and find solutions to problems
- Configure, distribute, maintain and dispose of IT equipment according to established processes
- Support the use of office IT equipment including meeting room technologies
- Resolve 1st and 2nd line application issues and manage the 3rd line support where necessary
- Delivery engaging training & awareness sessions to groups of customers
- Providing a point of escalation to ensure issues are managed efficiently and proactively ensuring minimum impact on staff that use the IT Services
- Being the champion of IT in the region, ensuring that a positive message is given to all and dealing with any dissatisfaction in a professional and positive manner
- Build strong relationships with our IT Managed service providers, ensuring that we work as one team in the interest of the customer
- To be considered, professional and objective always
- Work with the Service Managers to build and implement a customer engagement plan that delivers measurable improvements in service and raises the perception of customers
- Ensure that the Service Documentation and Processes that support the services are up to date and provide an accurate representation of the environment
- Actively contribute to knowledge and communications by producing new articles on a weekly basis
The offering
- Genuine Work Life balance
- 33 days holiday Inc. bank holidays, plus the opportunity to buy or sell up to 5 days (28 days on a training contract, with the opportunity to buy 5 days)
- Competitive salary package
- Employee Recognition awards.
- Paid CSR Volunteering time.
- Accredited Investor in People.
- A new and improved programme for Succession planning and supportive management structure to help you realise your potential.
And more!
