Business Analyst - Consultant (Contract)

Opencast; North East; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in the North East is seeking a Business Analyst. You will work closely with clients and cross-functional teams to solve complex problems, ensuring project requirements are met while adhering to security policies. Candidates must have experience in business analysis and demonstrate strong analytical and communication skills. This position requires UK citizenship and active Security Clearance or eligibility for it. Salary is from £380 per day inside IR35.

Qualifications

• Experience working as a business analyst.
• Demonstrated experience in UK central government delivery.
• Knowledge in agile delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to help achieve business goals.
• Collaborate with developers and user researchers.
• Create relationships with stakeholders for project requirements.

Skills

Business analysis techniques

Eliciting and managing business requirements

Presenting complex information clearly

Building relationships with stakeholders

Agile delivery management

Planning and managing workload

Job description

The role

• You\'ll already be working as a business analyst in your current role.
• You\'ll work with our clients to help them achieve their business goals.
• You\'ll work with other disciplines such as developers and user researchers to solve complex and interesting problems.
• You\'ll create relationships with stakeholders to understand what they need, then translate these into the requirements of the project.
• You\'ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast\'s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client projects.
• If you take more of a leadership role on projects, you may be more suited to our senior business analyst role.

Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.

Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.

Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you need experience of working as a business analyst. You\'ll need to show how you have:

• Applied business analysis techniques to solve problems in a methodical and considered way
• Elicited and managed business requirements using different methods
• Presented complex information in a way that is easy to understand
• Built effective working relationships within cross functional teams and across business stakeholders
• Shared knowledge and best practice with BAs and other disciplines
• Planned and managed your own workload to achieve the objectives of your project
• Experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines
• Working in agile delivery teams
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in agile delivery management and/or product management

As well as business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you\'ll need to be a great consultant. You\'ll need to show how you have:

• Contributed to improving ways of working within teams
• Positively challenged decisions or solutions you don\'t agree with

In the interview, we\'ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We\'ll also ask you questions based around these topics.

Salary

Inside IR35 - from £380 per day

Where you\'ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We\'ll make any adjustments to help you.

Want to know more?

Visit our website or email [e-mail].

We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.