Band 7 Business Analyst Birmingham, England
Job description
Job summary
You could be part of an exciting programme supporting our colleagues to provide the best care to patients in our community.
As Business Analyst you will be part of a team designing and implementing new processes and systems to transform the way we work and enable our clinical, corporate and support staff to focus their time on what matters most. You will optimise the use of existing systems and data as well as implement new solutions across Finance and HR, including SAP S/4 HANA to replace current Finance and Warehousing systems.
We offer a hybrid working model with flexibility to work at home and in our office in Five Ways, Birmingham. Benefits include 27 days' annual leave plus Bank Holidays, many opportunities for development and career progression, and a generous pension.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
- Provide business analysis, expertise and solutions to drive innovation, value for money, quality, performance, security and efficiency.
- Work with Project Managers and other colleagues to design and deliver solutions
- Elicit, define and document stakeholder requirements.
- Carry out process mapping, process analysis and identification of potential improvements
- Perform gap, impact and benefit analysis.
- You will have experience of Business Analysis, Finance or HR operations, or Finance or HR systems administration / technical support.
- Knowledge of SAP or SuccessFactors is an advantage but not essential.
- Experience working in the NHS or another public sector organisation is also desirable but not essential.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Job description
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
Educated to degree level or an equivalent professional qualification
Demonstrates continuing professional development
Experience
Essential
Extensive experience in delivering business analysis needs in complex and high-profile programmes
Experience of delivering within Shared Services environments
Extensive knowledge of HR systems (for HR BA)/Finance systems (for Finance BA)
Highly specialised relevant and in-depth knowledge and experience of systems integration and associated applications
A proven record of delivering services to relevant business users equivalent to post-graduate diploma level or equivalent
Knowledge of the project lifecycle
Knowledge of the latest ERP systems, such as SAP
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
