Senior Business Analyst

JR United Kingdom; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative public sector organization in Scotland as a Senior Business Analyst. In this dynamic role, you will engage with stakeholders to identify business opportunities and improve processes. Your analytical skills will help shape the future of services provided to communities across Scotland. This position offers a highly flexible working environment with a hybrid model, ensuring work-life balance while contributing to meaningful projects. If you're passionate about driving change and enhancing business performance, this is the perfect opportunity to make a significant impact.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Full government pension

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis and stakeholder management.
• Ability to improve business performance through process analysis.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to identify business opportunities.
• Analyze business problems and define success measures.

Skills

Agile working

Business analysis

Business modelling

Business process improvement

Business process testing

Requirements definition and management

Stakeholder relationship management

Systems analysis

Testing

User experience analysis

Relationship management

Collaborative environment

Job description

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Your new company

You will be joining an innovative public sector organisation that provides crucial services across Scotland. They are headquartered near Glasgow and employ over 1000 people in diverse scientific, research, and technology roles. They are committed to delivering the best possible service to communities across Scotland and ensuring sustainability and growth.

Your new role

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will engage with stakeholders throughout the organisation to understand business operations and identify opportunities for improvement. Your main duties will include analysing and understanding business problems or opportunities, undertaking research and analysis to understand how a business or business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data, and technology.

You will identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change, and define success measures. You will make decisions related to prioritisation and minimum viable product by using analysis-led insights, ensuring that new products and services meet business and user needs and are aligned with organisational goals.

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful in this role, you will need the following knowledge and skills:

• Agile working: Ability to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.
• Business analysis: Capability to recommend approaches to options analysis, feasibility assessment, and operations, and to quantify potential business benefits.
• Business modelling: Experience leading the modelling of processes, systems, and data at varying levels of detail or complexity across a project or programme.
• Business process improvement: Skill in identifying opportunities to improve business performance within a project or programme.
• Business process testing: Expertise in supporting the design, execution, and assessment of business process tests and usability evaluations.
• Requirements definition and management: Proficiency in advising on the approach to requirements management within a project or programme.
• Stakeholder relationship management: Experience communicating with stakeholders, clarifying needs, and managing commitments through consultation and consideration of consequences.
• Systems analysis: Skill in identifying and analysing IT system capabilities, developing models, and system requirements.
• Testing: Ability to recommend the value of testing and apply relevant tools and techniques to ensure test validity.
• User experience analysis: Expertise in analysing, prioritising, and validating user experience needs.
• Knowledge of writing business cases, process analysis, and documenting requirements.
• Relationship management: Excellent skills in managing relationships across technical and business streams.
• Collaborative environment: Experience working in a multidisciplinary agile team, delivering iterative design components.

What you'll get in return

They offer a highly flexible working environment with hybrid (1-2 days in office) work and a full government pension.

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