About us

Since our founding, UCL has blazed its own trail, fostering a vibrant, diverse community of world-class academics, staff, students, and alumni who aren’t afraid to think big and think differently. Together, we question the status quo, challenge assumptions, and tackle some of the world’s most complex problems head-on.

Based in the heart of London, UCL is consistently ranked among the top 10 universities in the world. With more than 16,000 staff and 50,000 students from 150 different countries we have a turnover of more than £1.2 billion a year. As well as being London’s leading multi-disciplinary university and a global leader in teaching, we are also recognised as one of the most successful research institutions in the world.

UCL’s strategy sets our cross-university priorities for the next five years focussing investment on several shared priorities agreed through consultation across our community. To turn UCL’s bold ambitions into action we’re setting up something exciting – a brand new Strategic Change Team. The team brings together new and established capabilities and will be at the heart of building and delivering a prioritised portfolio of change initiatives. These initiatives will enable UCL to meet our strategic objectives, deliver cohesive services and the enabling digital technologies. W This is your opportunity to bring fresh ideas, create meaningful impact, and help drive transformation across the institution.

About the role

As a Senior Business Analyst and lead the analysis activity on a portfolio of projects or a large, high profile programme.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders to define business priorities for your portfolio or programme and ensure a throughline to UCL’s strategic objectives and plan. You will also manage relationships with users and service owners and be able to represent their needs and challenges, whilst balancing the priorities of the wider community.

Your responsibilities will include the following;

Business Architecture: Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the business architecture for your business area, ensuring all analysis aligns with the overall structure and objectives.
Shaping analysis: Take the lead in defining the scope and approach for analysis activities, ensuring they are designed to meet the specific needs of each project and contribute to UCL’s strategic direction.
Discovery: Explore how services or processes currently work looking at strategic goals, performance, operations design, organisation structure and use of technologies.
Business cases: Recommend options with outlined costs and clear benefits.
Requirements: Elicit, document, and manage business requirements at a level appropriate to the need.
Visualisation: Illustrate the current and future state operating models, process models and scenarios (user stories, user cases) in a style appropriate to the target audience.
Best practice: Support the development of best practice ideas and promote our business analysis services by understanding the .
Line Management: Lead, mentor, and manage business analysts, fostering a collaborative environment that encourages professional growth and high performance.
Resource Management: Oversee the activities of your business analyst resources, coordinating efforts across different projects and ensuring consistent quality and alignment with strategic objectives.

In the event we get a high number of applications, we may close the advert early before the published closing date.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship or support visa applications at this time.

About you

As an experienced Senior Business Analyst, you have previously taken leading roles on a range of projects delivering both IT enabled and non-technical change, and are experienced of working within agile and traditional programme structures. You will be skilled in shaping and delivering analysis to large, complex, high-profile programmes tailored to meet their outcomes and ensure successful benefits realisation. You consistently demonstrate the ability to effectively manage your time, your team and your stakeholders' expectations across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring objectives are met within the given timelines and critical milestones.

With your excellent collaboration and interpersonal skills, you have formed successful relationships with senior stakeholders, understood and represented their needs yet been confident to challenge their thinking and skilled in influencing and negotiating compromises.

You can clearly define and articulate business cases, business architecture and operating model concepts to end users and colleagues across the business and process excellent presentation skills. As a confident leader, you have line managed business analysts, developing them to their full potential and prioritised your resources across the projects or workstreams in your remit.

As part of a portfolio or programme team you work effectively in a collaborative leadership team environment providing evidence and experience-based advice. Your drive for continuous improvement means you actively seek out opportunities to enhance of the business analysis service and best practice.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
Immigration loan
Relocation scheme for certain posts
On-Site nursery
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/

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