Senior Business Analyst
Posted Today by Informed Recruitment
£52,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Remote
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Summary: The Senior Business Analyst role involves leading business analysis for large-scale change and technology programs, focusing on operational efficiencies and stakeholder engagement. The position requires formulating and developing end-to-end business solutions while managing and mentoring other analysts. The role offers an opportunity to work on a transformation program within a social enterprise environment. It is a fixed-term contract with a competitive salary and benefits package.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive business goals ensuring they are understood and documented.
- Complete robust analysis in line with the overall delivery plan.
- Engage with stakeholders for requirement gathering and analysis.
- Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications.
- Improve existing business processes and produce relevant artefacts.
- Support solutions and oversee user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Conduct change impact assessments and manage a team of Business Analysts.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable commercial experience as a Business Analyst.
- Experience in line managing and mentoring other Business Analysts.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and requirement elicitation skills.
- Proficient in Business Process Mapping and capturing user stories.
- Experience overseeing UAT sessions and aligning requirements with test scenarios.
- Familiarity with analysis techniques such as SWOT, PESTLE, MoSCoW.
- Formal Business Analysis certification (e.g., BCS Foundation) or working towards similar accreditation.
- Knowledge of Power BI/Power Platform and change management methodologies.
- Additional certifications such as PRINCE Foundation, PMP, Agile, ITIL are a plus.
Salary (Rate): £52,000/year
City: Newcastle upon Tyne
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Other
Are you an experienced Business Analyst with the ability to drive operational efficiencies and lead other Business Analysts? Would you like to supercharge your career by working on an entire transformation programme from service design to digital transformation? Let Informed Recruitment help you to achieve your potential with an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst to lead on formulating, developing, and taking responsibility for end-to-end business solutions within a change portfolio. As a specialist provider of resource to the Property & Associated Technology markets, we are delighted to be partnering with a social enterprise offering you the opportunity to make a difference and gain experience as part of modern environment championing continual improvement.
The purpose of the role will be to play a pivotal part in leading all business analysis facets of large or complex business change and technology programmes and shape the associated business outcomes. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include driving the business goals ensuring that they are understood and documented; taking responsibility for the completion of robust analysis in line with the overall delivery plan; stakeholder engagement & analysis; leading on requirement gathering ensuring robust elicitation & validation; translating business requirement into functional & technical specifications by engaging with internal & external stakeholders; improving existing business processes; artefact production; solution support; user acceptance testing; line management; and change impact assessments amongst other responsibilities.
Must Have
- Demonstrable commercial experience of effectively working independently as a Business Analyst.
- Previous experience in line managing, leading, coaching and/or mentoring other Business Analysts.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Requirement Elicitation.
- Experience of Business Process Mapping and capturing user stories.
- Experienced in overseeing UAT sessions, ensuring alignment between requirements and test scenarios.
- Experience of a variety of analysis techniques such as SWOT, Pestle, MoSCoW, etc.
- A base of formal Business Analysis certification such as BCS Foundation, or evidence of working towards BCS/ISEB Diploma (or similar level of accreditation).
Nice to Have
- Power BI/ Power Platform
- Knowledge/Experience of Change Management or Continuous Improvement methodologies, tools, and techniques.
- Business case development
- Ideally a blend of methodology experience covering Agile and more iterative Waterfall projects.
- Additional certification such as PRINCE Foundation, PMP, Agile, ITIL, etc.
As an individual you will have excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail, be a self-starter, driven, and comfortable with taking responsibility for change and delivery. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to think on your feet and be ultimately goal orientated. The role is offered on an initial 18-month fixed term salaried contract with scope to run and, alongside a competitive salary, you will receive a generous a benefits package that includes bonus scheme, generous employer pension, flexible working, generous leave entitlement, life/health insurance and professional development. The role will be predominantly remote, with variable days spent in the office initially to attend meetings. If this role describes you, then please apply without delay for the opportunity to continue your career with a driven yet friendly organisation continually looking to provide a better service to customers.
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