Senior Business Analyst

Marie Curie; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned charity organization is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead business analysis activities for strategic change projects. This role involves collaboration with stakeholders, designing effective solutions, and managing projects throughout their lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have established experience in business analysis, strong data analysis skills, and the ability to influence decision-making. Join us to make a significant impact on how we operate and support individuals in need.

Benefits

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Group Personal Pension Scheme

Loan schemes for bikes, computers, and season tickets

Continuous professional development opportunities

Industry-leading training programmes

Qualifications

• Established experience in a similar business analysis role, delivering large-scale, cross-organisation projects.
• Excellent knowledge of project management methodologies and visualisation techniques.
• Experience leading teams and influencing decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage business analysis across projects to deliver outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project vision and scope.
• Capture and validate requirements using various elicitation techniques.

Skills

Business analysis

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Project management

Education

Industry recognized business analysis qualification (e.g. BCS, CBAP)

Tools

Business analysis tools and techniques

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Company Description

Marie Curie is the UK's leading end-of-life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end-of-life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end-of-life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they're likely to die from.

Job Description

As part of the Business Transformation team, the Senior Business Analyst role is responsible for leading business analysis activities that shape effective, sustainable solutions. You will be working with Executive Sponsors, project teams, and stakeholders to understand business needs, gather and analyse data, and design commercially viable solutions.

As Senior Business Analyst, you'll play a critical role in shaping strategic change projects. By gathering insights, analysing complex data, and designing effective solutions, you'll ensure that our programmes of change are evidence-based, and deliver tangible benefits. Your work will directly improve how Marie Curie operates and supports those who rely on us.

You will be responsible for:

• Building a strong understanding of the charity's work and stakeholder needs to identify business problems and design effective, commercially viable solutions.
• Partnering with senior stakeholders to clarify, and confirm project vision, and scope.
• Managing business analysis across the full project lifecycle, to deliver agreed outcomes on time, budget and within scope.
• Fostering collaboration and acting as a bridge between users, business teams, and technical teams to ensure shared understanding and successful delivery.
• Engaging with stakeholders to define expected benefits, establish measures, and support tracking to ensure changes deliver tangible value.
• Using elicitation techniques to capture, challenge, and validate requirements
• Lead process analysis and redesign activities, ensuring future-state processes are streamlined, effective and aligned to organisational strategy.
• Playing an active role in shaping and developing the BA practice by championing best practice, improving ways of working and sharing knowledge across the team.

Key Criteria:

• Established experience in a similar business analysis role, delivering large-scale, cross-organisation projects.
• Excellent knowledge of business analysis tools and techniques, project management methodologies, data analysis, and visualisation techniques.
• Industry recognised business analysis qualification (e.g. BCS, CBAP).
• Experience leading teams and working alongside senior stakeholders; with the ability and confidence to influence decision-making.
• Strong drive for improvement and innovation with a focus on delivering solutions that align with organisational strategy and defined project benefits
• Project delivery will span across caring services, fundraising and marketing, and business services, so the ability to demonstrate experience of working with people, processes and technologies across business environments is crucial. Working in a non-profit organisation, or an understanding of charities would be an advantage.

Please see the full job description HERE.

Application & Interview Process

• As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV and supplementary information. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your most relevant skills, experience and knowledge for the role.
• Close date for applications: 21 January 2025. We encourage early applications, as the application process may close sooner if we receive a sufficient number of qualified candidates.

Salary: £50,000-60,000 per annum, depending on experience

Contract: Permanent, full-time (35 hours per week)

Based: Home-based with occasional travel as required.

Benefits you'll LOVE:

• Flexible working. We're happy to discuss flexible working at the interview stage.
• 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
• Continuous professional development opportunities.
• Industry-leading training programmes
• Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
• Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits
• Access to Blue Light Card membership
• Subsidised Eye Care

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We're happy to accommodate any requests for reasonable adjustments. Please email any requests to [e-mail]