Role: Business Analyst
Contracting Authority: Government
Contract Length: 6 Months
Location: Hybrid – London
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate: £500 per day
An exciting opportunity has become available with our prestigious client who is a prominent government department. The client is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join their welcoming team.
The Business Analyst Role:
- To explore, elicit, and analyse business and user needs
- Identify business problems and opportunities
- To take responsibility for articulating problems and solutions in ways understood by all stakeholders - business and technical
- To plan and facilitate workshops and discussions to effectively understand business problems and achieve shared understanding of business needs
- To identify and establish effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders to ensure appropriate, sustained business and technical input into projects
- To collect and analyse data to inform decisions on service improvement
- To document functional and non-functional requirements/technical and functional user stories clearly and unambiguously in terms that are understood by business and technical stakeholders
- To produce and/or contribute to a range of other analysis outputs including business process mapping, storyboards, context diagrams, business cases, gap analysis, project feasibility studies, benefits realisation plans, test plans, and business readiness plans
- To work as part of an agile team, when applicable, and support the team in delivery, and promote and encourage agile behaviours with all stakeholders
- To liaise with business users, 3rd party suppliers and internal technical teams to ensure that change requests are well documented
- To understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered and assess the implications.
What Business Analyst Will Need:
- Solid Business Analyst experience within a Local Authority / Public Sector environment
- Experience of systems analysis to identify and analyse IT system capabilities and develop models and system requirements for bespoke IT systems or software packages
- Experience of business modelling, understanding potential changes and how business processes, systems, and data interact
- Experience of co-ordinating others to successfully deliver to specified outcomes
- Experience of personally managing the provisioning of business analysis solutions to successful outcomes
- Experience of working on own initiative and as an effective team member
- Experience of establishing effective and productive working relationships with senior managers and other internal and external stakeholder
- Experience of user analysis, applying techniques to analyse, validate, and prioritise user experience needs and present findings to support data-informed decision-making based on user research
Minorities, women, LGBTQ+ candidates, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Interviews will take place this week, so please apply immediately to be considered for this exciting contract opportunity.
