Summary: The Lead Business Analyst role is a 12-month contract position based in Bath, requiring an experienced professional to drive strategic initiatives and ensure alignment with organizational objectives. The successful candidate will provide expert analysis across a portfolio of projects, influencing senior stakeholders and enhancing business analysis practices. This position involves developing business cases, implementing frameworks, and overseeing benefits realization and risk management processes. The role also includes coaching and guiding other analysts and project managers while facilitating strategic workshops.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of strategic business cases, collaborating with financial teams to ensure robust cost-benefit analysis.
• Develop and implement business analysis frameworks, ensuring best practice is consistently applied across the organisation.
• Work with senior leadership to identify and prioritise strategic programmes and projects.
• Establish and oversee processes for benefits realisation and risk management within the project portfolio.
• Provide expert guidance and coaching to business analysts, project managers, and senior stakeholders.
• Implement effective reporting mechanisms, including dashboard analytics, to track project progress and business impact.
• Facilitate strategic workshops, supporting business units in clarifying and formalising business needs.

Key Skills:

• Project or Programme Management Qualification or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of business analysis and project management methodologies/frameworks and their application.
• Higher Education or Public Sector experience is essential.
• Experience of resource capacity planning, workshop facilitation, change control and transition management, assurance/quality reviews, development of business cases and benefits management, supplier management, formal project governance approaches, stakeholder and communications management and design and production of project dashboards.
• Significant project work experience, including working in teams on multiple tasks at one time.
• Financial Management.
• Experience of leading stakeholders to define their business needs.
• Strategic analysis, thought leadership and leadership and management skills.

Salary (Rate): £54,136

City: Bath

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other