Business Analyst (Housing)
Salary: Circa £50,000
Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract, Full time (35 hours per week)
Location: Winchester / Ealing / Staines (Hybrid role with the ability to work from home – regular office attendance in Ealing for collaboration)
About us
We are one of the UK’s leading housing associations. Our vision is to improve people’s lives through high-quality homes and services.
We operate across London and southern England, providing affordable, private and social rented homes, student, NHS and temporary accommodation, as well as supported housing and homes for older people. We also offer high-quality sustainable homes for sale and shared ownership, available through our FABRICA by A2Dominion brand.
Whilst we take a commercial approach to house building, all the profits the Group generates are reinvested into supporting our social purpose, helping to deliver more homes and services for customers.
About the role
As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for providing Business Analysis support and expertise to the various programmes of works within Project Services overall change portfolio. You will identify business requirements through various standard BA techniques and analytical reasoning. Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to understand the vision, requirements, and the desired future state, which will be captured in clear business process maps, requirements, and personas.
More about the role Analyse current (“As is”) processes and conduct stakeholder analysis to identify cross-functional business areas, process owners, and SME’s needed to define the future (“To-Be”) processes for the relevant service area, utilising the most suitable BA tools and techniques.
- Work collaboratively with Business SME’s to understand, capture, and document requirements and user stories. Analyse business areas and define future business processes at a high standard that facilitate enhanced ways of working, efficiency, and transformation.
- Organise, prepare, and conduct workshops with senior stakeholders from various departments, including Heads of Service, process owners, and SME’s from the relevant business areas.
- Deliver business analysis according to the standard methodology, planning activities to meet deadlines and ensure outputs meet required standards.
- Demonstrate positive and proactive behaviours, keep the Project Manager and BA team manager updated on progress, and promptly communicate potential risks and issues affecting delivery.
- Collaborate to evaluate and share best practices, fostering continuous improvement in working methods, including participation in periodic peer reviews.
More about you
- Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in English (Grades A*-C)
- Professional Business Analysis qualification (or equivalent.)
- Experience in Housing or Local Authority with a deep understanding of the sector.
- Experience of industry standard Business Analysis tools and techniques, including requirements gathering and traceability, Business process mapping (L4), user stories and personas.
- Proven experience of delivery within large projects in corporate environments that include people / organisation, process and technology changes.
- Proven experience of quantitative analysis and using standard MS Office tools.
Choosing us is easy
- As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:
- 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
- Up to 8% contributory pension
- Flexible working
- Investment in your learning and development.
If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will: actively look to attract and recruit disabled people, provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job, be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job, make reasonable adjustments as required.
At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.
Meeting the role requirements
We recognise that some females will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at recruitment@a2dominion.co.uk
A2Dominion are proud to be a family friendly employer.
Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.”
Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary
Contract length: 12 months
Pay: £50,000.00 per year
Schedule:
Application question(s):
- Do you have experience in Housing or Local Authority with a deep understanding of the sector?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London
