Remote UK Business Readiness Analyst Housing Transformation

mearsgroup; Exeter; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Learning & development opportunities

Career progression opportunities

Mears Rewards discounts

Job summary

Mears Group is seeking an experienced Business Readiness Analyst to join a major transformation programme migrating housing management functionality to our in-house platform. You will bridge operations and technical teams, gathering requirements, supporting design, and ensuring business needs are represented throughout delivery.

The role involves workshops, process analysis, documentation, data migration support, and coordinating with developers, testers, and project managers.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst on business change, transformation or systems implementation projects.
• Experience producing user stories, process maps, business requirements documents, functional specifications, UAT test scripts and gap analyses.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops and managing competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops and requirements gathering sessions with operational teams and stakeholders.
• Analyse existing processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Document business requirements, user stories, process maps, workflows and functional specifications.
• Review and challenge current processes to support simplification and standardisation.
• Support solution design activities to ensure business requirements are fully represented.
• Work closely with developers, testers, project managers and operational teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Assist with data migration requirements, validation activities and business readiness.
• Support User Acceptance Testing including test scenario creation, test scripts and defect triage.
• Ensure requirements support compliance with housing legislation and operational policies.
• Maintain requirements traceability from discovery through to delivery.
• Contribute to project governance, reporting and stakeholder communications.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder facilitation

Process mapping

Documentation

UAT support

Data migration

Regulatory compliance

Agile delivery

Tools

Housing management systems

Job description

Mears Group is seeking an experienced Business Readiness Analyst to join a major transformation programme migrating housing management functionality to our in-house platform. You will bridge operations and technical teams, gathering requirements, supporting design, and ensuring business needs are represented throughout delivery.

The role involves workshops, process analysis, documentation, data migration support, and coordinating with developers, testers, and project managers.