Summary: The Senior Business Analyst role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance business processes and deliver effective solutions within a public sector organization. The position requires maintaining an audit trail of decisions, supporting business leaders, and engaging with digital suppliers while participating in the Business Analysis practice. This is a hybrid role based in Edinburgh/Glasgow, offering an initial 6-month contract with potential for extension. The role is classified as outside IR35, with a daily rate of £463.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintaining an audit trail of decisions, assumptions, and outstanding questions
• Assist in the identification, evaluation, and tracking of business benefits
• Collaborate with colleagues to inform key transition points and roadmap outcomes
• Identify new process and customer opportunities
• Support business leaders in both their tactical and strategic work to deliver solutions that work for customers and the organisation
• Collaborate with business change teams to identify and help remove issues that may hinder the adoption of new processes or ways of working
• Support, participate, and engage with digital suppliers
• Actively participate in the Business Analysis practice sharing best practice techniques and domain progress
• Support junior staff with their development and upskilling
• Work with communication and organisational design professionals to assist in helping to reduce the impact of change
• Engage stakeholders and work with established governance forums such as the technical design authority
• Collaborate with Business Analysts from other domains on overlapping deliveries
• Act as Product Owner by Proxy
• Support any secondary activities as requested by the Lead Business Analyst

Key Skills:

• Agile working
• Business analysis
• Business improvement process
• Business modelling
• Business process testing
• Digital perspective
• Enterprise and business architecture
• Innovation
• Methods and tools
• Requirements definition and management
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Testing (business analysis)
• User focus
• Knowledge of organisational design in transition (desirable)
• Understanding of content creation supporting the change life cycle (desirable)
• Design experience (desirable)
• Background in lean UX, six-sigma, system thinking approaches or similar (desirable)
• Formal qualification with IIBA or similar body (desirable)
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (desirable)

Salary (Rate): £463

City: Edinburgh

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: Other