Description
Our client is currently seeking several experienced Business Analyst to work on a contract basis. Initially the contract will be 12 months in duration (Inside IR35) and will be based at their busy and secure sites in Berkshire (May allow for hybrid working arrangement of remote/site based working - Split % TBC)
Due to the nature of our clients work, the role requires the successful applicant to hold security clearance to SC Level or be will and able to undergo the Vetting process to achieve this.
Please find below the job specification for this requirement:
The IS Business Analysis team provide cross-enterprise business analysis services to the business. Alongside the Delivery teams, the Senior Business Analyst enables the definition of business needs and delivery of work packages to programmes and projects across the organisation, throughout the Demand and Delivery life cycles from Strategy through handover and in-life service
The Senior Business Analyst role forms part of a pooled resource with a reporting line into the IS BA Team Lead and task-managed by an IS PM.
Essential skills:
Extensive experience leading the delivery of BA artefacts on multiple, concurrent and/or complex programmes of work:
- Work Package and Problem Statement definition
- Impact Analysis
- Definition of Scope and Objectives, Stakeholder mapping
- RAID development
- Requirements Management: elicitation, documentation, validation, prioritisation, review and sign-off
- Workshop facilitation, stakeholder 121s, questionnaire creation, focus groups
- Gap analysis, Root cause Analysis
- Functional and Non-Functional Requirements definition: Functional Breakdown Structure, High and Low-level Requirements definition, User stories and Acceptance criteria; Requirements Catalogue, Business Rules, Wireframing, Business Context Diagrams, Business Process Modelling and Mapping; Business Process Re-engineering
- Definition of Acceptance Criteria
- Solution assessment and validation
- Input to Release and Launch planning; User Training and Education strategies
- Definition of MVPs, KPIs and metrics for Financial and Operational Benefits Realisation
- Expert Stakeholder Management and Communication skills
- Mentoring and coaching less experienced members of the team
Desirable skills:
- Familiarity with Waterfall and Agile Delivery methodologies
Other:
- Comfortable delivering multiple work-packages at pace in a secure and highly regulated, change-focussed environment
Qualifications, tools and methodologies:
- BCS International Diploma is Business Analysis; IIBA CBAP
- MSOffice; Visio, SharePoint, DevOps, Jira