Business Analyst Manchester, England
Job description
Responsibilities
- Investigations into business processes, identifying problems and opportunities in new and existing services.
- Drives the analysis and collection of information to create recommendations for service improvements
- Analyse large amounts of complex information which enable decisions to be made based on evidence collated to produce solutions and highlight the benefits of the change.
- Facilitate, understand, and communicate the project scope and work to assure the overall goal is maintained in creation of the product backlog.
- Lead in providing solutions to real business problems through influence, facilitation and communication and ensuring the end-to-end process is considered.
- Shape and challenge business priorities and ways of working through collaboration with business and technology teams.
- Elicit functional and non-functional requirements using appropriate techniques, considering the nature of change and established practices.
- Deliver at pace using agile methodologies and principles.
- Develop suitable analysis models using appropriate modelling techniques, considering traceability, adherence to business objectives and fitness for purpose.
- Work with business and solution architects to ensure that the wider architecture considered when undertaking analysis work.
- Promote a culture of assurance and security.
- Help to quality assure test solutions and products.
- Actively participate in the Business Analysis community and broader communities to refine and develop standards, working practices and sharing of knowledge and understanding.
- Where appropriate, Line Management of Business Analysts within the ONS Community.
- Support and mentor less experience members of the Business Analysis team.
Essential Criteria:
As a Business Analyst, the ideal candidate would be able to demonstrate:
- Collaboration with the project and other teams when working on large/multiple projects in a challenging environment.
- Experienced in requirements elicitation using an extensive range of techniques and have extensive experience of requirements gathering, validating, prioritising and managing.
- Modelling more advanced and complex situations across more than one business function or programme using appropriate skills, techniques, and models.
- Influencing stakeholders and managing stakeholder relationships effectively, building long term strategic relationships.
- Communicating effectively, clearly, and regularly with all stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
Qualifications:
Must be working towards:-
BCS (ISEB) accreditation in a module that contributes to one of the following diplomas:
- BCS (ISEB) Diploma in Business Analysis
or,
- BCS (ISEB) Diploma in Solution Development
or,
- Have appropriate Business Analysis experience.
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In return we offer you:
✔Hybrid working in an organization voted top in the UK for work-life balance
✔A market leading pension scheme - our employer contribution rate is around 27%
✔A choice of working patterns *for every role* full-time, part-time, job-share.
✔Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of 26 weeks full pay (subject to qualifying criteria)
✔Employee Assistance Programmes
✔Diversity Network Groups
✔Mental Health Allies
✔Civil Service Sports and Social club
✔Generous holiday allowance – 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 days after 5 years service in addition to 9 public holidays
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Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Salary: £31,055.00-£35,286.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Manchester
Application deadline: 20/04/2023
