Lead Business Analyst

Anglian Water Services; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Double matched pension (up to 21%)

Flexible working

23+ days holiday (plus holidays)

Job summary

Anglian Water Services invites a Lead Business Analyst (SAP) to head the SAP analysis team and drive complex transformation across the organisation. You will combine strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, ensuring requirements are clear and solutions deliver measurable outcomes.

You'll lead a team of Senior and Business Analysts, align stakeholders, and shape standards for discovery, requirements, testing and deployment across SAP-focused programmes, while fostering a high-performing,

Qualifications

• Extensive business analysis experience within large-scale IT-enabled change.
• Proven ability to lead, coach and develop a team of analysts.
• Experience translating complex business needs into functional/technical requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management at senior levels and cross-functional collaboration.
• Knowledge of SAP configuration, testing and deployment processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SAP-related change and transformation programmes across Anglian Water.
• Set standards for discovery, requirements management, process analysis and acceptance criteria.
• Coach and develop team members to foster high performance and accountability.
• Develop delivery plans, forecasts and budgets with project leaders.
• Oversee sprint planning, backlogs and alignment to business outcomes.
• Provide progress reports and escalate risks, issues and dependencies.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders and manage conflicting requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of BA methods, templates and practice.
• Capture, validate and document functional, technical and operational requirements.
• Bridge business and technical delivery to ensure SAP configuration meets needs.

Skills

SAP knowledge

Business analysis leadership

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Agile delivery

Education

CBAP/CCBA certification

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

Make every drop of your potential count!

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 escal​ate 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

Why join Anglian Water?

At Anglian Water, transformation is about more than implementing technology. It's about improving how our people work, strengthening services for customers and delivering better outcomes for communities and the environment.

In this role, you'll lead a business analysis capability with influence across major change programmes, including SAP-enabled transformation. You'll have the opportunity to shape professional standards, develop career pathways and build a team recognised for high-quality analysis and trusted delivery.

You'll work with senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams on complex organisational challenges while continuing to apply your own expertise to the programmes where it can make the greatest difference.

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

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