BUSINESS ANALYST - GREAT ROLE WITHIN GOVERNMENT!

£350 PER DAY UMBRELLA

6 MONTHS INITIAL - SC CLEARANCE

HYBRID 2 DAYS A WEEK IN LONDON, WARRINGTON OR BRISTOL

The Role

The business analyst will perform the following functions:

• Manage stakeholder relationships
• Process Modelling (simple and complex)
• Work independently
• Managing Requirements
• Managing stakeholder priorities
• Develop the business analysis community by sharing best practice and mentoring others

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

The business analyst will have the following skills and experience, and perform the following functions:

• Able to explain how products and services are delivered through different methodologies
• Able to follow an appropriate approach to complete your work within the delivery methodology used by your team
• Able to adapt how you work and the work you produce based on your team's delivery methodology to ensure you deliver value
• Select appropriate business modelling techniques to support analysis, decision making and stakeholder understanding
• Elicit appropriate information to create effective business models
• Create models and diagrams that represent the organisation, processes, relationships, information and interactions
• Analyse and evaluate business processes to identify problems and opportunities
• Design, prioritise and facilitate the implementation of business process improvements, with some support
• Validate improvements to business processes through testing
• Plan and use the most appropriate analysis techniques to understand the context, the problem and root causes
• Communicate how your work supports and aligns to strategic contexts and goals
• Define problem statements and develop and evaluate multiple options
• Formulate recommendations, considering feasibility, benefits and impact
• Elicit, analyse, challenge and validate business and user needs, addressing conflicts
• Define artefacts, such as problem statements, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements, to communicate business and user needs
• Manage artefacts and ensure traceability in line with a defined approach
• Facilitate the prioritisation of needs with minimal supervision
• Identify and analyse the functionality that systems deliver or need to deliver
• Create system and data models and documentation with minimal supervision
• Work with others in a multidisciplinary team to identify gaps in functionality and user experience, and their impact
• Identify important stakeholders and communicate with them clearly and regularly
• Tailor communication to stakeholders' needs and work with them to build relationships while meeting user needs
• Build and reach consensus with stakeholders
• Work to improve stakeholder relationships using evidence to explain decisions
• Understand the stages and purpose of testing and support the use of relevant tools and techniques
• Identify business scenarios and develop acceptance criteria to ensure requirements can be traced to develop functionality
• Review prototypes, test plans and test outcome reporting
• Apply basic techniques to analyse, validate and prioritise user experience needs
• Present findings in an accessible and easy to understand way to support data-informed decision making, based on user research