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Business Analyst - Consultant
Team: Business Analysis
Location: Hybrid - Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, or London
Commitment: Permanent - Employee
Want to solve impactful problems?
Are you looking to make a positive impact in your work? Do you want to work in an environment where you can grow, while solving problems to help improve government, healthcare and private sector services?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing technology consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose.
The role
As a Business Analyst (Consultant), you’ll bring a depth of experience and expertise from working in large, complex organisations.
- Collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams with product managers, software developers, user researchers, designers, and other specialists to tackle interesting problems and deliver meaningful solutions for clients.
- Build strong relationships with client stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into clear, actionable requirements.
- Ensure that all work meets Opencast’s high standards, including quality, environmental and information security policies, as well as any applicable client requirements and standards.
Requirements
This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants should be able to travel, as part of their normal daily commute, to client sites in one of the following locations: Newcastle, Leeds, or Manchester.
- Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.
- SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants are expected to have lived in the UK for at least five consecutive years prior to application to allow the appropriate background checks to be completed. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process.
Essential Experience
To succeed in this role, you’ll have experience as a Business Analyst and be able to demonstrate, with tangible examples, that you can:
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- Apply business analysis techniques (e.g. SWOT, 5 Whys) to understand business context, processes, and systems; analyse root causes, define problems, evaluate options, and make recommendations aligned with strategic goals.
- Elicit, analyse, validate, and prioritise business and user requirements, using techniques such as BPMN process flows, wireframing, and data analysis.
- Define epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements; maintain traceability and facilitate prioritisation.
- Use business modelling, process improvement, and digital/data systems analysis to represent organisations, processes, relationships, and systems; identify gaps, recommend improvements, and support implementation and validation.
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and cross-functional teams, communicating clearly, reaching consensus, and adapting messages to different audiences.
- Analyse and prioritise user experience needs, presenting insights in an accessible, data-informed way.
- Support testing by defining business scenarios and acceptance criteria, reviewing prototypes, test plans, and outcomes to ensure solutions meet requirements.
- Deliver to the highest quality, adhering to recognised industry standards and frameworks (e.g. GOV.UK Service Standards), in large and complex organisations.
- Work collaboratively in multidisciplinary Agile teams, validating process and system improvements and delivering project objectives effectively.
- Present complex information in a way that is easy to understand, engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
With a significant proportion of our client base in the public sector, we are particularly interested in candidates with experience working in central or local government and/or the NHS.
- Experience working to the GOV.UK Service Standards, including passing service standard assessments at different stages is highly desirable. If you have this experience, please demonstrate this on your CV to discuss at interview.
Essential Consulting Skills
In addition to business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be an Opencast consultant. You’ll need to demonstrate how you:
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- Contribute to improving ways of working and driving continuous improvements within your teams.
- Share knowledge and best practice with fellow business analysts and other disciplines, including proactively engaging in client and Opencast communities of practice.
- Positively challenge decisions or solutions you don’t agree with, striving for the best client outcomes.
- Create lasting value in the projects you work on, ensuring a user-centric, sustainable approach.
- Engage with Opencast in a meaningful way, supporting the growth of your practice and wider capability.
- Support Opencast's growth plans, by providing case studies and updates into the relevant forums of your project work.
During the interview process, we’ll ask questions to explore your experience across these areas.
Salary
Consultant salary range: £45,000 - £52,000 per annum
What We Offer
- A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options, and a discretionary bonus.
- Flexible working hours (aligned to client commitments).
- 25 days’ holiday, and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations.
- Wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities, and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites, and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking, and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
- An Initial Chat with a member of our Talent Team
- Your CV will be reviewed by one of our Interviewers
- 1 hour with our technical and values interviewers
- We will share feedback following the interview, if successful, we will progress to an Offer
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
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