Senior Business Analyst

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for Senior Business Analysts to define, analyse and document challenging business problems, whilst helping to build a sustainable, diverse and engaged Business Analyst community within DBT. Salary up to £65,600 plus 27% pension contribution and other excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh.

Job Description
DBT's Senior Business Analysts lead on mapping how user and organisational needs align with the business architecture and fit with the service vision and business strategy. Business Analysts are encouraged to challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose, while facilitating collaboration and leading effective communication with all stakeholders to support the design, build and delivery of products and services that meet user needs.

Your role will be to lead the business analysis of innovative projects within one of their 5 portfolios and make sure product decisions are based on a sound business analysis by working closely with service owners, product and delivery teams within a matrix structure.

You will support the Head of Profession to build a sustainable, diverse and engaged Business Analyst community within DBT who work together towards a common goal and share ideas openly. You will line manage more junior Business Analysts, providing direction on their activities and supporting them to develop their skills and experience, prior line mangement expeirence is not essential but you should have experience of providing mentoship and support to others.

Responsibilities
In your day-to-day role, you will:

• Articulate business and user problems, identifying opportunities and ways to address them and providing recommendations
• Gather requirements and user needs related to all aspects of the services you are supporting
• Work with Service Owners, Product Managers and Delivery Managers to assess how your analysis should inform the team's activities
• Lead on business process analysis and re-engineering where applicable and write and edit the relevant documentation
• Apply proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to ensure that the team's plans and objectives are achieved
• Work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver solutions and ensure they are sufficiently tested and meet business and user needs
• Contribute to an active and supportive community of practice and support the development of junior business analysts

Essential Skills and Experience
You should be able to demonstrate essential skills and experience of:

• Applying Agile methodology to work
• Advising on the best business analysis approaches/techniques to investigate and assess complex business problems. Feasibility assessments and ensuring proposed solutions align with business objectives and user needs
• Requirements gathering using the most appropriate elicitation techniques, prioritising and ensuring requirements traceability throughout the lifecycle.
• Stakeholder Management on all levels in challenging situations, clarifying needs and commitments through consultation and resolving conflict where required
• Mapping and modelling business processes then identifying opportunities to improve business performance.
• Leading the analysis, design, prioritisation and implementation of process changes, and support business process testing and usability evaluations.
• You will be flexible, with ability to move and work effectively across a number of services within the portfolio, adaptable to engage wit key stakeholders from various functions and proactive to identify solutions to problems.

Desirable Experience

• Experience of working at portfolio level or across multiple products

Benefits

In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

* Salary of £52,000 to £65,600 depending on skills as assessed at interview
* Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford
* Best-in-class training and development tailored to your role with study days and certifications expensed
* Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service
* An excellent Civil Service pension scheme starting at 27% employer contribution

Further information:

• Apply before 12pm 4th of March 2024
• This role requires you to undergo SC clearance where the requirement is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
• DBT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

If you are an experienced Business Analyst looking to enhance your career and make a difference across a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Steve Wall at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.