Business Analyst
Preston Based (Mainly remote with 1-2 days per month on site)
£511.87 per day Umbrella Inside IR35
12 Month Contract initially.
This is a great opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Defence organisations based in Preston. Mainly remote with travel to site 1-2 days per month. Also be available as and when needed for meetings etc.
Core Duties
- Perform BA duties on projects as the sole BA, and/or support work-packages on a larger project, which may involve working with a Senior Business Analyst.
- Support the Project Manager in identifying project stakeholders, defining the project scope and its business justification.
- Provide the Project Manager with estimates for BA tasks for further project phases and status reports for BA activities
- Elicit, analyse and gain approval for Critical Success Factors and business requirements.
- Plan and lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels , across complex stakeholder organisations, for requirements and business process capture and documentation.
- Develop and gain approval for system requirements (functional and non-functional).
- Quality assure design documentation to assure traceability to requirements.
- Support development teams, third party suppliers and test communities by acting as the voice of the customer on projects.
- Support business change plans (including communications and training approaches and schedules) and support their implementation working with business change leads and the transition team.
- Support continuous improvement through feedback on the existing processes.
Knowledge:
- Have experience of eliciting and documenting requirements for technical projects, including leading workshops for requirements and business process capture
- Have demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well-governed IT Project environment
- Have demonstrable evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes
- End to end experience of the project lifecycle
- Have experience of delivering work streams across multiple simultaneous projects
- Have proven experience interacting directly with end users and technical project
- Experience of Stage Gate delivery processes such as PRINCE2
- Experience of non-PRINCE 2 delivery methodologies e.g. agile.
Skills:
- A passion for your chosen specialist field and the ability to plan and articulate the BA and Business change management tasks and activities required during project delivery.
- Plan and effectively lead workshops with stakeholders at all levels and across complex stakeholder organisations, for requirements and business process capture and documentation.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- Highly process aware, with evidence of actively contributing to continuous improvement of project processes.
- Confidence to challenge the status quo through bold behaviours
- Competent user of Microsoft Office suit of products
- Ability to prioritise workload and work well under pressure and independently to meet deadlines and manage business expectations.
- Understanding of IT architecture concepts, and comfortable working with the technical and architecture communities.
Qualification:
- Educated to degree level, preferably in a related discipline
- Industry recognised professional qualifications eg BCS Diploma, Lean six sigma
For more information please contact Lauren Morley at JAM Recruitment or click apply.
