Senior Business Analyst

3 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Venesky Brown Full time

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Business Analyst for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £431/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.


Responsibilities:


- Maintaining an audit trail of decisions, assumptions and outstanding questions

- Assist in the identification, evaluation and tracking of business benefits

- Collaborate with colleagues across all disciplines when necessary

- Identify new or improved processes and opportunities

- Support business leaders in both their tactical and strategic work to deliver solutions that work for the organisation and its focus on providing exceptional customer experience

- Actively participate in the organisation’s Business Analysis practice, sharing best practice techniques and domain progress

- Support junior staff with their development and upskilling.

- Work with our communication and organisational design professionals to assist in helping to reduce the impact of change

- Be confident in engaging stakeholders and working with all levels of governance, including the Board and the Audit and Risk Committee

- Collaborate with Business Analysts from across the business, when required, on overlapping deliveries

- Work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams as an effective team player but also with autonomy and the ability to work independently when required

- Support any secondary activities as requested by the Lead Business Analyst


Essential Skills:


- Agile working: You can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. You know how to help the team to decide the best approach. You can help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP), print and scope.

- Business analysis: You can take responsibility for investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing and new services. You know how to drive the analysis and collection of information to create recommendations for service improvements. You can analyse large amounts of complex information and use it to produce solutions.

- Business improvement process: You know how to analyse current services and processes and can identify and implement opportunities to optimise these. You can help to evaluate and establish requirements using relevant techniques such as gap analysis.

- Business modelling: You can model more advanced and complex situations across more than one business function or programme. You know how to gather insight from senior stakeholders and communicate modelling results clearly to them.

- Business process testing: You can take responsibility for the creation of test cases. You can create traceability records, from test cases back to requirements.

- Digital perspective: You have the ability to apply a digital understanding to your work. You can identify and implement solutions for assisted digital.

- Enterprise and business architecture: You can contribute to the creation and maintenance of the target operating model and identify the impact on operational service.

- Innovation. You can lead others to innovate in their work as well as enabling them to innovate on their own.

- Methods and tools: You know how to ensure that teams are using the right tools and methodologies and promote their use.

- Requirements definition and management: You can facilitate the setting of business priorities for change initiatives of high complexity. You know how to lead on requirements analysis and take responsibility for the investigation and implementation of changes to programme scope.

- Stakeholder relationship management: You can influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively. You know how to build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders.

- Testing (business analysis): You can define test condition requirements. You know how to work according to test plans to design, interpret and execute them. You can highlight reports and risks and analyse results based on tests and activities.

- User focus: You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.


Desirable Skills:


- Knowledge and experience of using a wide range of BA tools and techniques

- Experience in designing a target operating model

- Experience in delivering corporate service review/reform

- Experience of working with Senior Executives


If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.

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