Business Analyst

Are you an experienced Business Analyst with the ability to drive operational efficiencies? Would you like to supercharge your career by working on an entire transformation programme from service design to digital transformation? Let Informed Recruitment help you to achieve your potential with an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst to lead on formulating, developing, and taking responsibility for end-to-end business solutions within a change portfolio. As a specialist provider of resource to the Property & Associated Technology markets, we are delighted to be partnering with a social enterprise offering you the opportunity to make a difference and gain experience as part of modern environment championing continual improvement.

The purpose of the role will be to play a pivotal part all business analysis facets of large or complex business change and technology programmes and shape the associated business outcomes. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include driving the business goals ensuring that they are understood and documented; Completing robust analysis in line with the overall delivery plan; stakeholder engagement & analysis; requirement gathering ensuring robust elicitation & validation; translating business requirement into functional & technical specifications by engaging with internal & external stakeholders; improving existing business processes; artefact production; solution support; user acceptance testing, and change impact assessments amongst other responsibilities.

Must Have

Demonstrable commercial experience of effectively working independently as a Business Analyst
Stakeholder Engagement and Requirement Elicitation
Experience of Business Process Mapping and capturing user stories
Experienced in overseeing UAT sessions, ensuring alignment between requirements and test scenarios
Experience of a variety of analysis techniques such as SWOT, Pestle MoSCoW, etc
A base of formal Business Analysis certification such as BCS Foundation, or evidence of working towards BCS/ISEB Diploma (or similar level of accreditation)Nice to Have

Power BI/ Power Platform
Knowledge/Experience of Change Management or Continuous Improvement methodologies, tools, and techniques
Business case development
Ideally a blend of methodology experience covering Agile and more iterative Waterfall projects.
Additional certification such as PRINCE Foundation, PMP, Agile, ITIL, etc.
As an individual you will have excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail, be a self-starter, driven, and comfortable with taking responsibility for change and delivery. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to think on your feet and be ultimately goal orientated. The role is offered on an initial 18-month fixed term salaried contract with scope to run and, alongside a competitive salary, you will receive a generous a benefits package that includes bonus scheme, generous employer pension, flexible working, generous leave entitlement, life/health insurance and professional development. The role will be predominantly remote, with a requirement for some onsite meetings in Carlisle during the first few months. If this role describes you, then please apply without delay for the opportunity to continue your career with a driven yet friendly organisation continually looking to provide a better service to customers.

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