Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

Location: London, Salford, Birmingham, Bristol or Cardiff
Length: 10 months
Rate: £350.00 - £500.00 p/d (Inside IR35 Umbrella)
Hours: 35 hours per week (2 days in office per week)

Overview:
As a Senior Business Analyst within Corporate Systems, you'll play a key role in modernising and simplifying the current Systems landscape within HR, Learning and Resource Scheduling technical products and platforms. The role of the Senior Business Analyst is to work closely with business stakeholders, suppliers and technical delivery teams both internally and externally, to ensure that Our Client's investment and the solutions delivered provide benefits.

This role will be within the Resource Scheduling Programme and will be responsible for delivering the Business Analysis & System Design workstream working alongside permanent and contractor colleagues. The programme will deliver a transformation of the resource scheduling landscape and will be working with key editorial, commercial and technical stakeholders. The role requires extensive programme experience in a Business Analysis capacity including workshop design and facilitation, mentoring and developing other team members, working with senior stakeholders to achieve objectives of the programme including standardisation, new ways of working, and change leadership.

Required skills:

• Extensive experience working as a senior level business analyst gained within a large scale, complex corporate environment.
• Comprehensive knowledge of technical product management and development methodologies, underpinned by strong software design principles.
• Thorough knowledge of business and data analysis tools and techniques such as requirements engineering, structured analysis and design, process mapping, component business modelling, business process re-engineering, workshop design and facilitation.
• Communication skills - both written and spoken - using a variety of methods; the ability to convey messages effectively relative to the audience.
• Experience of leading and delivering Business Analysis disciplines as a Senior Business Analyst, at programme level, in a technical environment and project lifecycle delivery.

Desirable:

• Entry Certificate in Business (ECBA) Level 1 and/or Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA) Level 2 or equivalent experience.
• British Computer Society Certified Business Analysis Professional (BCS CBAP) or equivalent formal qualification in business analysis.
• Subject Matter Expert or experience in Resource Scheduling, specifically the processes of identifying, forecasting, and allocating resources, i.e., people, equipment, and facilities.
• Experience in leading change initiatives at the programme level.