Business Analyst (People Transformation)

Lorien; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Umbrella contract

Job summary

Lorien is recruiting for a Business Analyst (People Transformation) in Edinburgh. The role supports a Workforce Transformation programme, focusing on improving HR/People processes, systems, and colleague experiences.

The successful candidate will bridge HR and technology, translate business needs into Agile user stories, and support large-scale workforce transformation initiatives. The role is based in Edinburgh with hybrid working (2 days on site) and will run via Umbrella.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst within HR, People Transformation or Workforce Transformation.
• Strong experience working within Agile environments, including Agile methodologies, Scrum, user stories, backlog management, and sprint ceremonies.
• Strong experience in business process analysis, process mapping, and future-state process design.
• Demonstrable experience gathering, documenting, and translating business requirements into structured deliverables.
• Experience improving HR processes, colleague journeys, or workforce-related systems.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience working across HR, business, and technology teams within transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of workforce planning, talent management, learning and development or internal mobility.
• Experience with HR technology transformation or HR systems implementation.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery tools.
• Understanding of People data, organisational design, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Business Analysis & Requirements: Gather, document, and validate business, functional and user requirements to support transformation initiatives.
• Process Improvement: Analyse existing HR/People processes, systems and workflows, identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Future-State Design: Support the redesign of processes and colleague journeys across workforce planning, skills, talent, learning, and internal mobility.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate workshops and collaborate with HR, business, and technology teams to define requirements and align solutions.
• Agile Delivery: Work within Agile delivery teams, supporting backlog refinement, user story creation, sprint planning, and iterative delivery of business requirements.
• Technology & Systems: Support the assessment and implementation of technology solutions, ensuring alignment with business and colleague needs.
• Change & Transformation: Support testing, implementation and adoption of new processes and systems, identifying risks and dependencies.

Skills

HR Transformation

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

Future-state design

Backlog management

Sprint ceremonies

User stories

HR systems

Job description

Business Analyst (People Transformation)

Hybrid Working - Edinburgh - 2 days a week on site.

Lorien's leading Pension and Investment client is looking for an experienced Business Analyst to support a Workforce Transformation programme, focusing on improving HR/People processes, systems, and colleague experiences.

The ideal candidate will be a Business Analyst with strong HR/People Transformation and Agile delivery experience, combining excellent requirements-gathering, process improvement and stakeholder management skills. They will be confident bridging the gap between HR and technology teams, translating business needs into Agile user stories and supporting the delivery of large-scale workforce transformation programmes.

This role is based in Edinburgh.

This role will be Via Umbrella.

Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Analysis & Requirements: Gather, document, and validate business, functional and user requirements to support transformation initiatives.
• Process Improvement: Analyse existing HR/People processes, systems and workflows, identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Future-State Design: Support the redesign of processes and colleague journeys across workforce planning, skills, talent, learning, and internal mobility.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate workshops and collaborate with HR, business, and technology teams to define requirements and align solutions.
• Agile Delivery: Work within Agile delivery teams, supporting backlog refinement, user story creation, sprint planning, and iterative delivery of business requirements.
• Technology & Systems: Support the assessment and implementation of technology solutions, ensuring alignment with business and colleague needs.
• Change & Transformation: Support testing, implementation and adoption of new processes and systems, identifying risks and dependencies.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within HR, People Transformation or Workforce Transformation.
• Strong experience working within Agile environments, including Agile methodologies, Scrum, user stories, backlog management, and sprint ceremonies.
• Strong experience in business process analysis, process mapping, and future-state process design.
• Demonstrable experience gathering, documenting, and translating business requirements into structured deliverables.
• Experience improving HR processes, colleague journeys, or workforce-related systems.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience working across HR, business, and technology teams within transformation programmes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within HR, People Transformation or Workforce Transformation.
• Strong experience working within Agile environments, including Agile methodologies, Scrum, user stories, backlog management, and sprint ceremonies.
• Strong experience in business process analysis, process mapping, and future-state process design.
• Demonstrable experience gathering, documenting, and translating business requirements into structured deliverables.
• Experience improving HR processes, colleague journeys, or workforce-related systems.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience working across HR, business, and technology teams within transformation programmes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
• Knowledge of workforce planning, talent management, learning and development or internal mobility.
• Experience with HR technology transformation or HR systems implementation.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery tools.
• Understanding of People data, organisational design, and change management.