Lead Business Analyst

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Healthcare

Double-matched pension up to 21%

Flexible working options

Annual bonus

Life assurance

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Lead Business Analyst (SAP) to head the SAP analysis team and drive large-scale transformation. You will shape discovery, define requirements and ensure delivery aligns with business outcomes across major programmes.

Join a senior, collaborative environment where you coach analysts, manage delivery plans, and oversee planning, testing and business readiness for SAP-enabled change.

Qualifications

• Extensive business analysis experience within large-scale IT-enabled change.
• Strong knowledge of SAP ECC6 and/or SAP S/4HANA.
• Proven experience leading and developing a team of Business Analysts.
• Experience gathering requirements, analysis, solution assessment and validation, process mapping and business readiness.
• Strong stakeholder management at senior levels with influence over programme leadership.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into clear functional and technical requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the business analysis team supporting SAP related complex change and transformation programmes.
• Set clear standards for discovery, requirements management, process analysis, user stories, acceptance criteria and business readiness.
• Lead, coach and develop team members, creating an inclusive, accountable and high-performing culture.
• Develop business analysis delivery plans, resource forecasts and budgets with project leaders.
• Maintain oversight of sprint planning and backlogs, aligning priorities to outcomes.
• Provide clear progress reporting and escalate risks, issues and dependencies as needed.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and manage conflicting requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in methods, templates, tools and practice.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

Agile delivery

Communication

Tools

SAP ECC6

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Circa £65,000 (depending on skills and experience) Permanent Full Time / 37 Hours (Flexible working opportunities available) Huntingdon or Lincoln Double Matched Pension Scheme (up to 21% combined) Private Healthcare

We're looking for a Lead Business Analyst (SAP) to lead Anglian Water's SAP business analysis team and play a key role in delivering complex transformation and change across the organisation. Business analysis is critical to understanding the challenges we need to solve, defining clear requirements and ensuring new systems and processes deliver the right outcomes. In this role, you'll lead the capability supporting projects from early discovery through design, build, testing and business readiness, with a particular focus on SAP-enabled change and large-scale business transformation. You'll combine strategic leadership with hands‑on delivery, providing expert business analysis on our most complex programmes while leading and developing a team of Senior Business Analysts and Business Analysts. Working closely with programme leaders, process specialists, change professionals, product owners and Digital, Data and Technology teams, you'll ensure business needs are understood, translated and delivered consistently.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the business analysis team supporting SAP related complex change and transformation programmes across Anglian Water
• Set clear standards for discovery, requirements management, process analysis, user stories, acceptance criteria and business readiness
• Lead, coach and develop team members, creating an inclusive, accountable and high‑performing culture
• Develop business analysis delivery plans, resource forecasts and budgets in partnership with project and programme leaders
• Maintain oversight of sprint planning and backlogs, ensuring priorities remain aligned to business outcomes
• Provide clear progress reporting and escalates risks, issues and dependencies at the right time
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, managing conflicting requirements and constructively challenging proposed solutions
• Drive continuous improvement in business analysis methods, templates, tools and professional practice
• Ensure excellent engagement with subject matter experts and stakeholders to understand current processes, pain points and the problems to be solved
• Ensure functional, non‑functional, technical, organisational and operational requirements are captured, validated, prioritised and clearly documented
• Bridge the gap between business teams and technical delivery, ensuring SAP configuration and system development meet agreed requirements
• Define user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, role profiles and authorisations for system‑enabled change
• Support testing, deployment, end‑user training and business readiness activities across major programmes

What we’re looking for:

• Extensive business analysis experience within complex, large‑scale business transformation and IT‑enabled change
• Strong knowledge of SAP ECC6 and/or SAP S/4HANA environments
• Proven experience leading, coaching and developing a team of Business Analysts
• Extensive experience of requirements gathering, analysis, solution assessment and validation, process mapping and business readiness
• Strong prioritisation and decision‑making capability, with the ability to manage resources across multiple competing programmes
• Strong stakeholder management experience at senior level, with confidence influencing programme and project leadership
• Ability to translate complex business needs into clear functional and technical requirements
• Excellent questioning, facilitation, communication and documentation skills
• Experience working across Agile delivery, sprint planning, backlog management, testing and deployment activities
• Innovative and analytical approach, with strong root‑cause problem‑solving skills and attention to detail

Desirable:

• International Institute of Business Analysis certification, such as CCBA or CBAP
• Experience of business process re‑engineering and enterprise process architecture
• Project or programme management qualification, such as MSP, APM or PRINCE2
• Knowledge of water utilities or another regulated, asset‑intensive environment
• Understanding of IT applications, infrastructure, corporate data models and data management requirements

Benefits:

• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Flexible working options
• Private health care
• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double‑matches contributions up to 7%
• Life assurance at eight times your salary
• Annual bonus
• Potential funded car allowance depending on evidenced business mileage
• Personal medical assessments
• Virtual GP service
• Cancer screening
• Financial wellbeing support and salary finance benefits
• Lifestyle savings including discounts on retail, travel and utilities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Volunteer days

Inclusion at Anglian Water We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We are proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter and Armed Forces Covenant, and we’re a Disability Confident employer.

Closing Date: Sunday 4th October 2026

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long‑term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long‑term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.

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