Senior Business Analyst
Job Description
Job title: Senior Business Analyst
Company: Inspire People
Job description: UK – LondonUKLondon,Darlington,Cardiff,Edinburgh,Belfast,Birmingham,Salford
Skills
Salary £52,000 – £65,600 + 27% pension and benefits
Currency
Start Date ASAP
Consultant
https://www.inspirepeople.net/job-search/1685-senior-business-analyst/business-analysis/uk-london/job2024-02-14 16:50:482025-02-12Inspire People Telephone 020 7871 8551
Job Ref JOB-2878_1707929452
Description
Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade (“DBT”) and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for Senior Business Analysts to define, analyse and document challenging business problems and needs. Salary between £52,000 – £65,600 plus excellent Civil Service benefits. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh.
If you would like to find out more about the role, the Business Analysis team and what it’s like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually ‘meet the team’ on Monday 26th February 2024 at 12.30pm. Please to book your spot.
Job Description
Our Senior Business Analysts identify and draw upon a variety of evidence to define, analyse and document challenging business problems and user needs. They lead on mapping how user and organisational needs align with the business architecture and fit with the service vision and business strategy.
Senior Business Analysts work across a portfolio of products, helping their teams to deliver in line with the strategy and in sync with one another. As a Senior BA, you will be working with several teams across multiple complex, fast-moving, and innovative projects.
Your role will be to lead the business analysis and make sure product decisions are based on a sound business analysis by working closely with service owners, product and delivery teams.
We encourage our Senior Business Analysts to challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose, while facilitating collaboration and leading effective communication with all stakeholders to support the design, build and delivery of products and services that meet user needs.
You will support the Head of Profession to build a sustainable, diverse, and engaged Business Analyst community within DBT who work together towards a common goal and share ideas openly, establishing standards and consistency to support rapid delivery through sharing and learning from one another.
You will line manage more junior Business Analysts, providing advice and direction on their activities and supporting them to develop their skills and experience.
Responsibilities
In your day-to-day role, you will:
- Articulate business and user problems, identifying opportunities and ways to address them and providing recommendations
- Lead on the analysis of business requirements and user needs related to all aspects of the service(s) you are supporting
- Work with Service Owners, Product Managers and Delivery Managers to assess how your analysis should inform the team’s activities
- Lead on business process analysis and re-engineering where applicable and write and edit the relevant documentation
- Apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to ensure that the team’s plans and objectives are achieved
- Work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions and ensure they are sufficiently tested and meet business and user needs
- Contribute to an active and supportive community of practice and support the development of junior business analysts
Essential Skills and Experience
You should be able to demonstrate essential skills and experience of:
- Agile Working: You apply agile methodology to your work and can help the team decide the best approach
- Business Analysis: You can advise on the best business analysis approaches to investigate and assess complex business problems and opportunities and inform both tactical decision making and strategic plans. You can recommend the approach to options analysis and feasibility assessment, assess business benefits and ensure proposed solutions align with business objectives, as well business and user needs
- Requirements Definition & Management: You can advise on the approach to requirements definition and management for complex change initiatives and ensure requirements traceability throughout their lifecycle. You can coordinate and review the prioritisation of requirements and engage in the negotiation of solutions to help meet business objectives and user needs
- Stakeholder Management: You can lead on communicating with stakeholders in challenging situations, clarifying needs and commitments through consultation and considering consequences while focusing on user and business needs. You can develop or apply communication strategies to build relationships, engage with stakeholders at all levels and work to resolve conflict where required
- Process Management: You can lead on modelling business processes at all levels of complexity and identify opportunities to improve business performance. You can lead the analysis, design, prioritisation and implementation of process changes, and support business process testing and usability evaluations. You can use systems analysis to support a deeper understanding of how processes and systems work, and to identify gaps
- Ways of Working: You understand the importance of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) standards outside your discipline and can collaborate effectively with other DDaT professions within a multi-disciplinary delivery team and assess the effect of proposed solutions on users
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Experience of working at portfolio level or across multiple products
Personal Attributes and Skills
The ideal candidate will be:
- Flexible, with the ability to move and work effectively across a number of services and products within the portfolio
- Adaptable to confidently engage key stakeholders from different functions from across DBT
- A critical thinker
- Proactive, in order to drive activities and identify solutions to problems
Assessment and Interview
This vacancy is using , and will assess your Technical Skills and Behaviours.
Unless otherwise specified, all interviews are currently being held online. Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way.
DBT sift will take place week commencing: Monday 11th March 2024
Interviews will take place week commencing: Monday 25th March 2024
Please notes these dates are indicative and may be subject to change.
As part of the you will be asked to upload a CV which outlines your experience, skills and fit for the role. Inspire People will assess your application against the essential criteria listed above to compile a longlist of applications, which will then be sifted by DBT. If you are progressed through at this stage, you will be asked to complete a short, pre-recorded video screening interview with Inspire People or alternately provide written answers to questions. These applications will then be sifted by DBT hiring managers. If you are successful, you will be invited to interview.
How you’ll be assessed
At the for this role, you will be asked to demonstrate relevant Technical Skills and Behaviours from the framework. A role-specific list of these can be found below. There will be a presentation as part of the interview process, details of which will be sent out beforehand.
- Agile working
- Business analysis
- Business modelling
- Business process improvement
- Requirements definition and management
- Stakeholder relationship management
- Systems analysis
- User experience analysis
You will also be assessed against the Behaviours of:
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace
Offer Stage
Appointments may be made to candidates in merit order based on location preferences.
The salary we will offer is determined using interview performance. Scores at interview translate to proficiency levels and an associated salary.
Security Clearance Details
This role requires you to undergo Security Clearance. The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
Further Information
If you would like to find out more about the role, please contact at Inspire People or apply directly using the ‘apply’ button.
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Expected salary: £52000 – 65600 per year