Senior Business Analyst

Cambridgeshire County Council; Alconbury; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing package

Extra annual leave (4 weeks)

Flexible bank holidays

Shared AVCs

Development opportunities

Volunteering hours

IDEAL network

Employee Recognition Awards

Cambs Rewards discounts

Car lease program

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to lead analysis across digital, technology and service improvement projects. You’ll work with senior stakeholders to define current and future requirements and translate them into actionable recommendations.

This is a hybrid role with some office attendance. You’ll line-manage business analysts, promote consistent standards, and support teams to deliver measurable improvements while staying focused on user needs.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent professional experience required.
• Lean, Six Sigma or process-mapping qualification required.
• Qualification covering project and programme management essential.
• Extensive experience in business analysis in the public sector.
• Significant experience in project and programme environments.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis for complex projects and translate findings into recommendations.
• Facilitate workshops, map current and future processes, refine requirements.
• Review benefits/costs and present findings to senior stakeholders.
• Develop programme-level analysis plans and manage risks and dependencies.
• Line manage analysts and deputise for the Programme and Delivery Manager.

Skills

Degree or experience

Lean Six Sigma

PM qualification

Public sector BA

Proj/Programme experience

Analytical & leadership

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent

Job description

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New Shire Hall, Alconbury Weald, Cambridgeshire

Closing Date:

08/11/2026

Job Category:

IT

Organisation:

Cambridgeshire County Council

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About the role

Are you an experienced Business Analyst who enjoys making sense of complex challenges and turning ideas into practical improvements?

We’re looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our Customer and Digital Services team. You’ll lead business analysis across a varied portfolio of digital, technology and service improvement projects, helping services understand where they are now, where they need to be and how to get there.

This is an influential role with the opportunity to shape major projects and programmes. You’ll work with senior stakeholders, programme teams, service leads and delivery partners to ensure that change is based on clear evidence, well‑defined requirements and a strong understanding of user needs.

Alongside leading complex analysis, you’ll help strengthen business analysis practice across the team. You’ll support and develop colleagues, promote consistent standards and provide constructive challenge when projects need greater clarity or focus.

The role is hybrid, with some office attendance required during the month. Appointment will be subject to a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service check and Baseline Personnel Security Standard pre‑employment screening, as the role will involve access to government assets.

What will you be doing?

You’ll lead business analysis for complex projects and programmes, taking responsibility for understanding problems, identifying opportunities and translating findings into clear recommendations.

A typical week could involve facilitating a workshop with service colleagues, mapping current and future processes, refining business requirements, reviewing a project’s benefits and costs, or presenting your findings to senior stakeholders. You may also be supporting procurement activity, assessing how well a proposed solution meets service requirements or providing constructive challenge at a project or programme board.

You’ll develop programme‑level analysis plans and help teams understand dependencies, risks and the impact of proposed changes. Your work will include advanced business modelling, process improvement, requirements management, benefits realisation and business process testing.

Working closely with programme managers and service leads, you’ll help ensure that projects remain focused on user needs and deliver measurable improvements. You’ll communicate complex information clearly, adapting your approach for different audiences and helping people make informed decisions.

You’ll line manage Business Analysts and Business Partners, including contract staff, as well as matrix‑managing resources working across projects. You’ll help colleagues manage priorities, maintain realistic workloads and continue developing their skills. You’ll also act as an escalation point for analysis, process mapping and service design, and deputise for the Programme and Delivery Manager when required.

About you

You’ll be an accomplished Business Analyst with substantial experience of working in complex project and programme environments. You can take ownership of investigative work, bring structure to ambiguity and analyse detailed information to develop practical, evidence‑based solutions.

You’ll have strong experience of business process mapping, requirements definition, business modelling and service improvement. You’ll also understand benefits management, including cost‑benefit analysis, benefit mapping and tracking both financial and non‑financial outcomes.

You’ll be confident working with senior leaders, service teams, external consultants and strategic partners. You can explain complex subjects in an accessible way, influence decisions and provide constructive challenge while maintaining positive relationships.

Leadership is an important part of the role. You’ll be able to support and motivate colleagues, promote good practice and create an environment where people can share ideas and develop their capabilities. You’ll be organised, resilient and comfortable balancing competing priorities in a fast‑moving environment.

You’ll need:

• a relevant degree or equivalent professional experience
• a business analysis qualification covering areas such as Lean, Six Sigma or process mapping
• a relevant professional qualification or membership covering project and programme management and continuous improvement
• extensive experience of business analysis within a public sector organisation
• significant experience of working in project and programme environments
• strong analytical, stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills

An understanding of local government governance and decision‑making arrangements would be an advantage.

We’re interested in people who combine technical business analysis expertise with curiosity, sound judgement and a genuine commitment to improving services. If you can see the wider strategic picture while remaining focused on users, evidence and practical delivery, we’d like to hear from you.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self‑organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

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We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

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