Business Analyst Remote
Job description
Business Analyst (Inside IR35)
Contract Term: 6 months (possibility of extension to March 2024)
Contracting Authority: Homes England
Location: Remote but will need to travel to workshops when required.
Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.
Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.
As a Business Analyst, your main responsibilities would be:
· Develop and articulate a detailed understanding of the Homes England's business processes, working with process owners to identify and implement opportunities for incremental and step-change process improvement.
· Work as an agile business analyst in a multi-disciplinary team, supporting the team and Product Manager with developing and managing a product backlog.
· Facilitate both agile ceremonies and business workshops.
· Production of Epics, Features and User Stories to agreed standards and quality levels.
· Work with stakeholders to identify and implement solutions to complex business problems, successfully identifying and then translating business needs to digital and non-digital solutions.
· Able to work to a waterfall approach, producing High Level, Functional and Non-Functional business requirements.
· Support team members and others within the wider business analysis community of practice, supporting the development and implementation of business analysis best practice.
You’ll have relevant experience in:
· Business process modelling and process improvement.
· Large systems implementation, replacing existing systems working to an adopt model.
· Experienced in business analysis, working both collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary agile team and alone.
· Experience of working with the user centred design profession and their methods and techniques.
· Experience of Agile development methodologies, particularly Scrum.
· Experience of working with a backlog of user stories and acceptance criteria using Behaviour Driven Development.
· Experience of waterfall projects, producing High Level, Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
Desirable
· MS Dynamics HR or Finance implementation or support
· Finance domain experience
· Knowledge of the GDS development approach / digital standards.
· Awareness of public sector Information Security issues.
Desirable education & qualifications:
· Business analysis qualification
· Agile certification
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Job Type: Temporary contract
Contract length: 6 months
Benefits:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote
Application deadline: 02/03/2023
