Summary: The Lead Business Analyst role is a 12-month contract based in Bath, requiring a strategic and experienced professional to shape and deliver key initiatives. The position involves providing expert business analysis across various projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while influencing senior stakeholders. The successful candidate will implement frameworks for effective governance and benefits realization, while also coaching and guiding other analysts and project managers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of strategic business cases, collaborating with financial teams for robust cost-benefit analysis.
• Develop and implement business analysis frameworks, ensuring best practices are applied across the organization.
• Work with senior leadership to identify and prioritize strategic programs and projects.
• Establish and oversee processes for benefits realization 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 formalizing 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 in 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 simultaneously.
• Financial Management experience and 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