Business Analyst

Warwickshire Police; Warwick; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional police force is seeking a Business Analyst for a fixed-term position. You will work within the change programme to analyze feasibility, gather business requirements, and develop process improvements. The ideal candidate will have a Level 5 Business Analysis qualification and experience in process mapping and stakeholder engagement. Offering a salary range of £48,894.00 - £54,879.00.

Qualifications

• Recognized qualification in Business Analysis such as BCS or ISEB.
• Understanding of lean methodologies and data governance practices.
• In-depth knowledge of change management and transformation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct upfront analysis and feasibility studies for projects.
• Gather and document business requirements through workshops.
• Act as a liaison between the Change Programme and business stakeholders.
• Model and improve business processes to enhance efficiency.
• Facilitate user acceptance testing.

Skills

Business analysis qualification

Analytical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Process mapping

Communication skills

Education

Level 5 Business Analysis qualification

Tools

UML

Job description

Full time

Fixed term (up to 12 months, starting from February 2026)

Leek Wootton

£48,894.00 - £54,879.00

Job Purpose

Working within Warwickshire Police’s change programme and a small team of Business Analysts to:

• Perform upfront analysis on a project to determine its feasibility and business benefit realisation.
• Collaborate with project and business stakeholders at all levels to understand their problems / underlying issues and capture, define and agree business requirements, business process workflows, system and data requirements.
• Help identify and articulate option for solutions that meet the business requirements.
• Apply typical Business Analyst thinking and outputs to produce process maps, use cases, functional and non‑functional requirements and other supporting documentation to enable change decision making.
• Support Business Case development and work collaboratively with project and change management teams to ensure a project/task meets the stated business requirements and design.

Main Responsibilities

• Understanding business needs as they relate to a potential change and establishing required business outcomes to attain the support of key stakeholders for business proposals and sign off for business cases.
• Gathering, identifying and documenting business requirements including through the facilitation of workshops and meetings.
• Act as the conduit between the Change Programme and the business to ensure that the deliverables meet the requirements, including undertaking gap analysis and other industry methodologies/standard tools, along with identifying opportunities where new and existing technologies can be used to improve business efficiency and service performance.
• Business process modelling and improvement to support a proposed change and to maximise efficiency, effectiveness, cost savings and value for money.
• Recommend business functions and processes for investigation and analysis based on business knowledge and understanding of business performance.
• Assess / recommend the feasibility of new and innovative approaches and/or technologies to solving business problems and addressing areas of poor performance or complex operational demands.
• Creating functional and non‑functional specifications / requirements for new systems and processes.
• Facilitating communication between vendors or third parties and the force for a proposed change, identifying possible conflicts between the vendor/third party and user requirements in order to advise senior staff/officers.
• Liaise with project personnel to ensure that the final deliverables of a task or project meet the stated business requirements and have been delivered and measured against original design specifications.
• Identifying and quantifying business benefits and benefit realisation at the earliest point in projects/programmes, to maximise the return on investment, and assess the risk, cost and benefits of any change proposals.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• To undertake other duties commensurate with the nature, level of responsibility and grading of this post, as required.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Business analysis recognised qualification (Level 5) such as BCS accreditation in Business Analysis, ISEB diploma in Business analysis or Business at Practitioner level or Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABoK).
• Understanding of lean methodologies and principles.
• Knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data quality and collaborative usage.
• In depth knowledge of change management processes and transformation programme activities.

Desirable

• Analytical degree and knowledge of the police sector.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience of process mapping and process re‑engineering.
• Experience of translating business requirements into detailed functional design either using UML (Use‑Cases, Activity/State Diagrams, Process Mapping, Work Shops).
• Significant experience in requirements gathering and requirements elicitation and prioritisation with business stakeholders and the delivery team including functional, non‑functional and technical requirements.
• Workshop facilitation for both business and technical teams.
• Demonstrable experience of a good organisational approach to work and prioritisation of activity.
• Experience of conceptualisation and solution definition in line with target operating model.
• Experience of designing testing of ICT systems/applications.
• Experience of working with user stories and agile processes would be useful, as would a degree in IT, although this is not essential.

Key Skills

• Consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to understand problem domain and express complexity in clear terms to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Translating technical issues and solutions to end users.
• Stakeholder engagement and change management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent research and analysis skills with an innovative approach to problem solving and excellent decision‑making capabilities.
• Innovative, with problem solving and critical reasoning skills.
• Actively seeks to find solutions to problems.
• Strong interpersonal, leadership, influencing and negotiation skills.
• Good presentation skills with the ability to work to deadlines and under pressure.