Business Analyst
Application Deadline: 30 July 2025
Department: Strategy & Design
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)
Compensation: GBP 41,000 - GBP 55,350 / year
Description
About the role
Business analysts help teams deliver products and services that bring value to their users through:
- Identifying, exploring, and analysing business problems and objectives, and user needs
- Understanding the public sector domain, people, organisation, processes and technology
- Identifying areas for improvement and exploring feasibility of options
- Understanding any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assessing the implications
Key Responsibilities
- Delivery of good public services for users with clients, shown through relevant measures, for example, data, metrics, KPIs or the passing of service standards
- Personal performance aligned with DDaT and grade, evidenced through peer feedback
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Business analysis
- Apply structured approaches to complex problems and opportunities
- Analyse business goals, functions, and objectives to support requirement definition
- Conduct options analysis and feasibility studies
- Ensure proposed solutions meet business requirements and user needs
Business modelling
- Understand the impact of potential changes and how business processes, systems, data, roles and responsibilities interact
- Analyse, design, and prioritise business changes to improve operations and services
Business process improvement
- Support the implementation of proposed business improvements
Business process testing
- Analyse and evaluate information to support business process tests and usability evaluations within a project
Methods and tools
- Select and use appropriate tools and techniques for planning, analysis, development, testing, and improvement of systems and services within a project
Requirements definition and management
- Identify, analyse, challenge, and validate business and user requirements
- Use appropriate requirements management lifecycle methods for project tasks
Stakeholder management
- Tailor communication to stakeholder needs and build relationships while meeting user needs
- Build and reach consensus with stakeholders
- Use evidence to explain decisions and improve stakeholder relationships
Systems analysis
- Identify and analyse IT system capabilities
- Develop models and system requirements for bespoke IT systems or software packages
Testing
- Identify business scenarios and develop acceptance criteria
- Review prototypes, test plans, and test outcomes
User experience analysis
- Apply techniques to analyse, validate, and prioritise user experience needs
- Present findings clearly to support data-informed decisions based on user research
Benefits
Take a look at the Benefits & Perks section of the Made Tech Handbook to see what we can offer you.