Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Preston Based (Mainly remote with 1-2 days per month on site)

£511.87 per day Umbrella Inside IR35

12 Month Contract initially.

This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK’s leading Defence organisations based in Preston. Mainly remote with travel to site 1-2 days per month. Also be available as and when needed for meetings etc.

Core Duties

• Perform BA duties on projects as the sole BA, and/or support work-packages on a larger project, which may involve working with a Senior Business Analyst.

• Support the Project Manager in identifying project stakeholders, defining the project scope and its business justification.

• Provide the Project Manager with estimates for BA tasks for further project phases and status reports for BA activities

• Elicit, analyse and gain approval for Critical Success Factors and business requirements.

• Plan and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels , across complex stakeholder organisations, for requirements and business process capture and documentation.

• Develop and gain approval for system requirements (functional and non-functional).

• Quality assure design documentation to assure traceability to requirements.

• Support development teams, third party suppliers and test communities by acting as the voice of the customer on projects.

• Support business change plans (including communications and training approaches and schedules) and support their implementation working with business change leads and the transition team.

• Support continuous improvement through feedback on the existing processes.

Knowledge:

• Have experience of eliciting and documenting requirements for technical projects, including leading workshops for requirements and business process capture

• Have demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well-governed IT Project environment

• Have demonstrable evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes

• End to end experience of the project lifecycle

• Have experience of delivering work streams across multiple simultaneous projects

• Have proven experience interacting directly with end users and technical project

• Experience of Stage Gate delivery processes such as PRINCE2

• Experience of non-PRINCE 2 delivery methodologies e.g. agile.

Skills:

• A passion for your chosen specialist field and the ability to plan and articulate the BA and Business change management tasks and activities required during project delivery.

• Plan and effectively lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels and across complex stakeholder organisations, for requirements and business process capture and documentation.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

• Highly process aware, with evidence of actively contributing to continuous improvement of project processes.

• Confidence to challenge the status quo through bold behaviours

• Competent user of Microsoft Office suit of products

• Ability to prioritise workload and work well under pressure and independently to meet deadlines and manage business expectations.

• Understanding of IT architecture concepts, and comfortable working with the technical and architecture communities.

Qualification:

• Educated to degree level, preferably in a related discipline

• Industry recognised professional qualifications eg BCS Diploma, Lean six sigma