Lead Business Analyst – BA UKIC DV Cleared Lean, Agile, Prince 2

As a Business Analyst BA, you will be dealing with complex and sensitive data and information requirements required to deliver and sustain a portfolio of challenging technology projects at scale and pace. You will be supporting them through an accelerated digital transformation programme covering strategy and governance, analysis work, requirements management and business change.

Role Responsibilities
 

• Ensures strategic business benefits are articulated and used to inform organisational change
• Work with a wide range of stakeholders to ascertain the real business problems and drivers
• Contribute to the development of business strategy and/or technology strategy
• Develop suitable target operating models for a business or function
• Prepares business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks
• Ensures governance and oversight of the change aligns with the desired business outcomes and user needs
• Provides objective, evidence-based analysis and recommendations for action
• Defines an appropriate quantitative or qualitative approach to identifying, gathering and analysing relevant information
• Uses methodological techniques to investigate, review and analyse the organisation
• Embeds “systems thinking” into their approach
• Ensures business needs are documented and used to prioritise delivery of the initiative.
• Works with customer stakeholders to elicit, capture and elaborate requirements
• Documents requirements to a level that enables effective delivery of required changes without prescribing solutions;
• Identifies and escalates conflicting requirements;
• Evaluates proposed delivery outputs against business needs and recommendations to current IT and business systems and processes
• Capable of identifying and managing conflicting priorities within the delivery environment
• Acts as a proxy product owner where necessary to plan and prioritise work
• Identifies gaps in requirements and/or delivery and recommends actions to resolve.
• Has knowledge of different delivery lifecycle methodologies and which contexts they are used in
• Acts as a liaison between the solution delivery team and their customers in the development and implementation of new solutions,
• Assesses effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction of new products.
• Effectively plans and facilitates workshops and large meetings

We Are Looking For
 

• Experience of working directly with clients who want to bring about changes within their organisation.
• Familiarity working in complex situations and can use a range of proven business analysis techniques
• Expert with operating in a number of delivery methodologies (for example Lean Agile, Scaled Agile, Prince2 or Managing Successful Programmes) and are able to tailor their role to fit with the delivery context of the project.
• Able to examine business problems and initiatives from a strategic perspective and is also involved in ensuring portfolios of change have appropriate structure to achieve the desired outcome.
• Experience of working with clients at the initiation of a project.
• Experienced in shaping and influencing a wide range of stakeholders in ambiguous environments with potentially conflicting requirements

If you are interested, please get in touch and we can schedule a call.