Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Preston Based (Mainly remote with 1-2 days per month on site)

£511.87 per day Umbrella Inside IR35

12 Month Contract initially.

This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Defence organisations based in Preston. Mainly remote with travel to site 1-2 days per month. Also be available as and when needed for meetings etc.

Core Duties

• Perform BA duties on projects as the sole BA, and/or support work-packages on a larger project, which may involve working with a Senior Business Analyst.
• Support the Project Manager in identifying project stakeholders, defining the project scope and its business justification.
• Provide the Project Manager with estimates for BA tasks for further project phases and status reports for BA activities
• Elicit, analyse and gain approval for Critical Success Factors and business requirements.
• Plan and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels , across complex stakeholder organisations, for requirements and business process capture and documentation.
• Develop and gain approval for system requirements (functional and non-functional).
• Quality assure design documentation to assure traceability to requirements.
• Support development teams, third party suppliers and test communities by acting as the voice of the customer on projects.
• Support business change plans (including communications and training approaches and schedules) and support their implementation working with business change leads and the transition team.
• Support continuous improvement through feedback on the existing processes.

Knowledge:

• Have experience of eliciting and documenting requirements for technical projects, including leading workshops for requirements and business process capture
• Have demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well-governed IT Project environment
• Have demonstrable evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes
• End to end experience of the project lifecycle
• Have experience of delivering work streams across multiple simultaneous projects
• Have proven experience interacting directly with end users and technical project
• Experience of Stage Gate delivery processes such as PRINCE2
• Experience of non-PRINCE 2 delivery methodologies e.g. agile.

Skills:

• A passion for your chosen specialist field and the ability to plan and articulate the BA and Business change management tasks and activities required during project delivery.
• Plan and effectively lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels and across complex stakeholder organisations, for requirements and business process capture and documentation.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Highly process aware, with evidence of actively contributing to continuous improvement of project processes.
• Confidence to challenge the status quo through bold behaviours
• Competent user of Microsoft Office suit of products
• Ability to prioritise workload and work well under pressure and independently to meet deadlines and manage business expectations.
• Understanding of IT architecture concepts, and comfortable working with the technical and architecture communities.

Qualification:

• Educated to degree level, preferably in a related discipline
• Industry recognised professional qualifications eg BCS Diploma, Lean six sigma

For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.