Business Analyst

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh / Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Business Analyst for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £431/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities:

- Maintaining an audit trail of decisions, assumptions and outstanding questions

- Assist in the identification, evaluation and tracking of project benefits for the outcomes and objectives stated

- Collaborate with colleagues to inform iterations of the domain roadmap

- Support the Domain Principal Analyst, as required

- Identify new process and customer opportunities

- Support the development teams’ Product and Agile leads in both their tactical and strategic work to help ensure the product delivery teams deliver solutions that work for customers and the organisation

- Actively participate in the Business Analysis practice sharing best practice techniques and domain progress

- Supporting junior staff with their development and upskilling. Requirement for business analyst services

- Collaborate with our business change teams to identify and help remove issues that may hinder the adoption of new processes or ways of working

- Work with our communication and organisational design professionals to assist in helping to reduce the impact of change

- Be confident in engaging stakeholders and working with established governance forums such as the technical design authority

- Collaborate with Business Analysts from other domains, when required, on overlapping deliveries.

- Support any secondary activities as requested by the Head of Service Design.

Essential Skills:

- Confident facilitating detailed collaborative workshops with customers and established cross-functional teams

- Collaborative mindset seeking advice and input from a wide array of stakeholders across the customer and internal ecosystem

- Working knowledge of Agile approaches in the design and delivery of digital services

- Ability to support decisions making process through the effective synthesis of information from a wide array of sources

- Experience synthesising complex information into clear and compelling visual stories

- Experience mapping stakeholders, impact, processes, and land registration value streams

- Excellent collaboration, communication and teamwork skills

Desirable Skills:

- A working knowledge of Business Canvas Modelling, Value Proposition Design or Wardley map techniques

- Experience with prioritisation techniques such as cost of delay or similar

- An understanding of systems architectures in transition

- Familiarity with creation of conceptual wireframes

- Development of Personas, customer journeys and service blueprints

- Use of Google’s suite of web analytics software

- Writing of user stories and formal acceptance criteria

- Background in lean UX, six-sigma, system thinking approaches or similar

- Formal qualification with IIBA or similar body

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.