Business Analyst

Description

This is not a generic BA resourcing request. It's a targeted intervention to fix a systemic problem that is currently slowing delivery and creating unsustainable workload for the hiring manager.

The core problems the hiring manager is trying to solve are adopting new ways of working, specifically a scaled agile approach where analysis outputs are captured as -

• User stories
• Acceptance criteria

The requirement is for a single experienced Lead Business Analyst to act as a specialist in user stories and acceptance criteria.

To coach, guide, support, and challenge Business Analysts so that their outputs consistently reflect business value, rather than system solutions.

This role is not responsible for:

• Writing all user stories
• Owning delivery timelines
• Defining tools or Jira processes
• Acting as a technical or system-focused analyst

Instead, the role will focus on uplifting quality and capability across the analyst community.

• Review high volumes of user stories and acceptance criteria
• Work alongside analysts in Real Time as they develop outputs
• Provide clear, constructive, and consistent feedback
• Reinforce best practice and agreed standards
• Challenge solution-led thinking and redirect toward business value
• Coach analysts at all levels, including senior and lead peers
• Reduce reliance on leadership as a quality gate
• Improve flow and throughput into engineering

The successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate strong alignment with established guidance
• Identify and correct drift into solution-level detail
• Confidently deliver supportive but firm feedback
• Build credibility across the analyst community
• Improve analysis quality at source, reducing rework

Key Requirements

Business Value Focus

• Strong, demonstrable focus on business outcomes
• Ability to think from multiple perspectives, including:
  • Customer
  • Advisor
  • Commercial/proposition value
• Not a system analyst operating under a BA title

• Proven ability to coach and mentor analysts
• Comfortable giving direct feedback and challenging behaviours
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Hands-on and Embedded within the team

• Experience within workplace pensions
• Understanding of relevant business contexts (eg schemes, advisors)
• Ability to translate domain knowledge into meaningful business value

• Experience working with Jira and Confluence
• Tools are secondary to thinking and articulation capability

• Role Title: Lead Business Analyst
• Number of Roles: 1
• Contract Length: ~6 months
• Location: Manchester/Glasgow or Edinburgh (hybrid presence required)
• Start Date: ASAP
• Programme: Large-scale, multi-year transformation initiative

This requirement is driven by:

• Increasing workload pressure on leadership
• Reduced delivery throughput
• A persistent capability gap across the BA community

This role is critical to improving both delivery efficiency and team sustainability.

The requirement is for a senior, business-led Lead Business Analyst with strong workplace pensions Experience, who can:

• Coach analysts effectively
• Embed best practice in user story and acceptance criteria writing
• Refocus outputs on genuine business value
• Operate hands-on, at pace, and at scale

This is a specialist requirement, not a standard BA placement.

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Manchester, UK

Rate/Salary: 400.00 - 475.00 GBP Daily

Job Type: Contract

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