Senior Business Analyst

Informed Recruitment; North East; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency in the North East seeks a Senior Business Analyst to oversee significant business change and technology programmes. The ideal candidate will possess strong stakeholder engagement skills and be experienced in business process mapping. Responsibilities include leading requirement gathering, translating requirements into specifications, and managing UAT sessions. This role offers a competitive salary along with a generous benefits package in a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Generous benefits package

Bonus scheme

Flexible working

Professional development

Health insurance

Qualifications

• Commercial experience working independently as a Business Analyst.
• Experience in line managing, leading, coaching, or mentoring Business Analysts.
• Experience of a variety of analysis techniques like SWOT, Pestle, MoSCoW.

Responsibilities

• Drive business goals ensuring they are understood and documented.
• Lead requirement gathering and validation.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Business Process Mapping

Problem-solving skills

Requirement Elicitation

Change Management

Education

BCS Foundation or equivalent

Additional certification (PRINCE, PMP, Agile)

Tools

Power BI

Power Platform

Job description

Are you an experienced Business Analyst with the ability to drive operational efficiencies and lead other Business Analysts? Would you like to supercharge your career by working on an entire transformation programme from service design to digital transformation? Let Informed Recruitment help you to achieve your potential with an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst to lead on formulating, developing, and taking responsibility for end-to-end business solutions within a change portfolio. As a specialist provider of resource to the Property & Associated Technology markets, we are delighted to be partnering with a social enterprise offering you the opportunity to make a difference and gain experience as part of modern environment championing continual improvement.

The purpose of the role will be to play a pivotal part in leading all business analysis facets of large or complex business change and technology programmes and shape the associated business outcomes. Your day-to-day responsibilities will include driving the business goals ensuring that they are understood and documented; taking responsibility for the completion of robust analysis in line with the overall delivery plan; stakeholder engagement & analysis; leading on requirement gathering ensuring robust elicitation & validation; translating business requirement into functional & technical specifications by engaging with internal & external stakeholders; improving existing business processes; artefact production; solution support; user acceptance testing; line management; and change impact assessments amongst other responsibilities.

Must Have

• Demonstrable commercial experience of effectively working independently as a Business Analyst.
• Previous experience in line managing, leading, coaching and/or mentoring other Business Analysts.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Requirement Elicitation.
• Experience of Business Process Mapping and capturing user stories.
• Experienced in overseeing UAT sessions, ensuring alignment between requirements and test scenarios.
• Experience of a variety of analysis techniques such as SWOT, Pestle, MoSCoW, etc.
• A base of formal Business Analysis certification such as BCS Foundation, or evidence of working towards BCS/ISEB Diploma (or similar level of accreditation).

Nice to Have

• Power BI/ Power Platform
• Knowledge/Experience of Change Management or Continuous Improvement methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Business case development
• Ideally a blend of methodology experience covering Agile and more iterative Waterfall projects.
• Additional certification such as PRINCE Foundation, PMP, Agile, ITIL, etc.

As an individual you will have excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail, be a self-starter, driven, and comfortable with taking responsibility for change and delivery. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to think on your feet and be ultimately goal orientated. The role is offered on an initial 18-month fixed term salaried contract with scope to run and, alongside a competitive salary, you will receive a generous benefits package that includes bonus scheme, generous employer pension, flexible working, generous leave entitlement, life/health insurance and professional development. The role will be hybrid based, with up to 2/3 days spent in the office in the North‑East on a weekly basis, If this role describes you, then please apply without delay for the opportunity to continue your career with a driven yet friendly organisation continually looking to provide a better service to customers.

Informed Recruitment Limited acts as an Employment Business in respect to this vacancy as defined by the Employment Agencies Act. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, or any other basis protected by appropriate law. All hiring decisions are made based on merit, competence, and business need. As defined under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Informed Recruitment is a Data Controller and a Data Processor, and our legal basis for processing your personal data is 'Legitimate Interests'. You have the right to object to us processing your data in this way. For more information about this, your rights, and our approach to Data Protection and Privacy, please visit our website.