Digital SEND & Finance BA - Transformative Change (Flexible)

Compass Community Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Job summary

Compass Community Ltd. is seeking a Digital SEND and Finance Business Analyst to support the Digital SEND Programme and financial projects within the Transformation Programme.

You will gather, analyse, validate and translate complex business, user, data and financial requirements into clear, actionable solutions, engaging with SEND, Education, Finance, Digital and operational teams. You will assess current processes, design future-state requirements, document controls and reconciliation needs,

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst.
• Educated to degree level with strong Maths and English.
• Proficient in eliciting, analysing, validating and prioritising requirements from diverse stakeholder groups.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation and influencing skills.
• Experienced in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Skilled in creating user stories, epics, acceptance criteria and maintaining backlogs.
• Familiar with BPMN standards and process modelling techniques.
• Experience using Office 365 tools.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in fast-paced project environments.
• Experience supporting complex digital transformation programmes or multi-project environments.

Responsibilities

• Support business analysis across the Digital SEND Programme and financial projects from discovery through to implementation and benefits realisation.
• Engage SEND, Education, Finance, Digital, Technology and operational stakeholders to understand objectives and priorities.
• Analyse current-state processes, systems, data flows and controls, and design future-state processes and requirements.
• Document financial requirements, business rules, approval routes, controls, reporting needs, data definitions and reconciliation requirements.
• Support options appraisal, feasibility assessment and business case development with costs, benefits and risks.
• Maintain requirements traceability and ensure link to scope, testing and acceptance criteria.
• Identify cross-workstream dependencies, data impacts and risks, escalating gaps to the Project Manager.
• Support benefits definition, baseline measures and post-implementation evaluation.
• Gather, analyse, validate and manage business, user, data and financial requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Plan and facilitate workshops with multiple stakeholders.

Skills

Business Analysis

Stakeholder management

Requirements elicitation

Process mapping

Data analysis

Communication

Workshop facilitation

Agile delivery

Documentation

Digital transformation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Visio

Lucidchart

Draw.io

Office 365

Job description

Compass Community Ltd. is seeking a Digital SEND and Finance Business Analyst to support the Digital SEND Programme and financial projects within the Transformation Programme.

You will gather, analyse, validate and translate complex business, user, data and financial requirements into clear, actionable solutions, engaging with SEND, Education, Finance, Digital and operational teams. You will assess current processes, design future-state requirements, document controls and reconciliation needs,