Contract - Senior Business Analyst
Posted Today by Deloitte
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior Business Analyst at Deloitte involves leading business change and analysis initiatives, ensuring technology solutions align with business needs. The position requires collaboration with stakeholders and mentoring junior analysts while managing process transformation and user experience improvements. This contract role is based in Cardiff and is expected to last for six months, starting as soon as possible in January 2026. The successful candidate will be a key player in evolving the Business Analysis practice within the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Outline problems, proposed solutions, expected benefits, costs, risks, and return on investment.
- Prepare executive summaries, problem statements, strategic alignments, options analyses, financial analyses, risk assessments, and recommendations.
- Conduct stakeholder analysis and management planning, including stakeholder registers and communication plans.
- Document current ('As-Is') and future ('To-Be') business processes, including process flow diagrams and key performance indicators.
Key Skills:
- Experienced Senior Business Analyst with a focus on process transformation and user experience improvement.
- Strong relationship management skills with business stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience in mentoring and developing team members.
- Ability to understand high-level business processes and present solutions.
- Team player with collaborative and flexible working style.
- Proficient in process mapping, requirements elicitation, and business case writing.
- Able to navigate change in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience in complex partnership models and appropriate analysis styles.
- Lean six sigma certification (desirable).
- Experience in user experience design and BPMN (desirable).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Cardiff
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Contract - Senior Business Analyst
Job description
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst (contract)
Location: Cardiff Hybrid
Duration: 6 months
Contract Start Date: ASAP January 2026
Deloitte
Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.
The Role
We're looking for a Senior BA to join the Business Change and Analysis team in Central Business Services. You will be the "voice of the business" ensuring that our technology teams deliver solutions that meet business needs by understanding our business, eliciting requirements and improving the user experience. You will support the Head of Business Analysis to evolve the Business Analysis practice, being a role model and leader for other Business Analysts on the team.
Essential Skills and Experience
Desirable:
Deliverables: Responsibilities but not limited to:
IR35
As a means of managing tax, commercial and reputational risks, Deloitte prohibits the use of Associates through Personal Service Companies ('PSCs'). All Associates must contract under PAYE arrangements through a Deloitte approved 'Employment Company' (aka 'umbrella company.')
Job Title: Senior Business Analyst (contract)
Location: Cardiff Hybrid
Duration: 6 months
Contract Start Date: ASAP January 2026
Deloitte
Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.
The Role
We're looking for a Senior BA to join the Business Change and Analysis team in Central Business Services. You will be the "voice of the business" ensuring that our technology teams deliver solutions that meet business needs by understanding our business, eliciting requirements and improving the user experience. You will support the Head of Business Analysis to evolve the Business Analysis practice, being a role model and leader for other Business Analysts on the team.
Essential Skills and Experience
- An experienced Senior Business Analyst in a role with process transformation or improving user experience.
- Experience of collaborating and managing relationships with business stakeholders, at all levels, with the ability to challenge where required.
- Experience in managing, mentoring and developing other team members.
- Ability to quickly understand high level business processes and problems and present solutions and options.
- Be a team player, work collaboratively and positively with others in an open, friendly, flexible and facilitating manner.
- Able to define scope and distil lots of information into high level understandable concepts and business language.
- Experience of process mapping, requirements elicitation techniques and Business Case writing.
- Navigate through and manage change in a fast-paced environment.
- Work in a complex partnership model and decide which style of analysis and project delivery is appropriate.
Desirable:
- Lean six sigma certified
- Experience designing user experiences and design thinking
- BPMN
Deliverables: Responsibilities but not limited to:
- Outline the problem, proposed solution, expected benefits (financial and non-financial), costs, risks, and return on investment.
- Executive summary, problem statement, strategic alignment, options analysis, financial analysis, risk assessment, and recommendations.
- Stakeholder Analysis and Management Plan:Identify all individuals or groups affected by or influencing a project, assesses their interests, influence, and impact and outlines strategies for engaging and managing their expectations. Stakeholder register, power/interest grid, communication plan tailored to different stakeholder groups.
- As-Is and To-Be Process Models: Document current business processes ('As-Is') to understand inefficiencies and design optimised future processes ('To-Be') that incorporate new solutions or improvements. Process flow diagrams (e.g., BPMN), swimlane diagrams, process narratives, and key performance indicators (KPIs). Business Requirements Document (BRD) / Epic & Feature Definitions (Agile)
IR35
As a means of managing tax, commercial and reputational risks, Deloitte prohibits the use of Associates through Personal Service Companies ('PSCs'). All Associates must contract under PAYE arrangements through a Deloitte approved 'Employment Company' (aka 'umbrella company.')