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Senior Business Analyst - Crown Prosecution Service - SEO
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This post can be based in any location within England and Wales where a CPS office is located. Whilst it’s an expectation of the role to travel to CPS locations as per business needs, CPS is disability confident employer and all reasonable adjustments will be considered in line with Equality Act of 2010.
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Job summary
As a senior business analyst, you will play a pivotal role within the scrum team working on the Replacing CMS Programme. Your collaboration with User Cantered Design and Accessibility colleagues will be crucial to ensure that all products and services are developed with the end users' needs at the forefront. This approach will guarantee that our solutions are not only fit for purpose but also highly effective.
Your day-to-day work will involve investigating business needs and recommending improvements that align with both user requirements and broader organisational goals. You will play a key part in defining problems clearly and ensuring that strategic decisions are informed by both business outcomes and user needs.
Building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships will be key to your role, enabling you to elicit, analyse, and validate business requirements in a way that’s both effective and tailored to the context, with thorough traceability and documentation.
You will collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, embedding the value of Business Analysis throughout the delivery process. You will also lead large areas of Business Analysis activity, taking ownership of complex challenges and driving them to resolution.
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Your work will include creating acceptance criteria - often using Behavioural Driven Development - to ensure new services are thoroughly tested. You will model processes using established techniques, understanding their purpose and impact.
You will actively contribute to and collaborate within the Business Analysis Community of Practice, where your support, coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing will continuously enhance the capabilities of your colleagues.
Moreover, your commitment to your own professional development will be essential. By leveraging both formal and informal resources, you will ensure that your skills remain relevant and up-to-date, aligning with the future demands of the skillset required.
The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If you’re applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. There’s no guarantee that we will grant this approval.
You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline. Candidates are expected to commence employment as soon as possible following the expiry of their notice period. Requests for significantly later start dates may not be accommodated.
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Job Description
Your roles and responsibilities:
- Seek out and tackle issues that will prevent the delivery of business benefits, facilitating open communication and discussion between stakeholders.
- Responsible for elicitation & documentation of requirements. Facilitates setting of business priorities for change initiatives. Manages and implements requests for changes to baseline requirements.
- Investigates, documents and analyses current business processes. Identifies alternatives, assesses feasibility and recommends new approaches.
- Assesses the potential benefit to the organisation of specific technologies, products, methods and techniques. Investigates these in detail, recognising further avenues of research.
- Identifies the strategic implications of future business changes. Applies appropriate modelling and analysis tools, methods and standards in an intelligent and effective way.
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Person specification
To Be Eligible To Apply, You Need To
- Qualification – Accredited Agile Business Analysis or Business Analysis
- Experience – Capturing and defining business needs, user needs and requirements management
- Technical skills – Business Modelling
It is desirable that you have the below experience but this is not required to apply:
- Agile methodology
- Working with user centred design principles
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