Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Fixed Term Contract

Manchester

£55k

Business Analyst required for one of our not for profit organisations based in Manchester. The Business Analyst wil work with the Director of Transformation on delivering a programme of change and will be supporting the organisation wide transformation programme. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of this programme of change, translating strategic ambition into actionable change by collaborating with colleagues across the organisation.

Duties & Responsibilities;

• Leading the evaluation of current business processes, operations, products, services, and software to identify areas for improvement.
• Undertake gap analysis between current and future organisational processes to understand problems, inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Investigate root causes of business problems, or opportunities, identifying where a particular business need exists and shaping the project to address this need.
• Work with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to capture and prioritise business and user needs, aligned with the overall aim of the transformation programme.
• Advise and influence senior leaders, providing evidence based recommendations to leadership on processes needed to administer the future organisational model and the implications for strategy and decision making.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation to design, develop and embed these processes.
• Providing leadership and assurance for the implementation of new processes or technologies, which may include testing, training, identifying potential challenges and proposing solutions to support successful delivery.
• Evaluate new processes and solutions to inform continuous improvement and ensure the success of the programme of change. Share lessons learned and insights to inform future organisational improvements and continuous development.
• Lead role in the development and implementation of the Transformation Programme to improve its efficiency and effectiveness, to deliver its strategic plan and to achieve the high level success measure for the Programme.
• Lead responsibility for the design, development, embedding and testing of the processes needed to implement a new operating model and structure.
• To work at all times with integrity, impartiality and to the highest professional standards

Knowledge, skills and experience:

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, management and communication, including the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management
• Ideally BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis (or equivalent)
• Ideally 5 years' experience in a business analyst professional role
• Experience of business process modelling and improvement methodologies
• Experience of of project delivery approaches using Waterfall and Agile
• Experience of business analysis to review systems and processes and make recommendation for improvement

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