- Pay Rate:
Up to £594 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 8 months
- Salisbury
Interim Business Analyst -Hybrid Working - PSR 1JP00059101
Pay Rate: Up to £594 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
Salisbury 1-2 days a week.
Key Accountabilities:
- Requirement gathering – Coordinate requirement activities, their validation and sign-off ensuring that the needs of the key stakeholders are articulated determining the need and value of performing the activity based on the context
- Process modelling – Determine requirement for and develop, coordinate and agree sign-off of the ‘As-Is’ and To-Be’ business process work
- Gap Analysis – Coordinate and lead on the evaluation of requirements against the present state (where we are) & the target state (where we want to be) and identify opportunities to develop successful business requirements as well as cultivate stakeholder relationships needed to make the transition.
- Impact Analysis – Lead on ensuring that the potential consequences of a change are correctly identified, that stakeholders have been identified and are part of the overall process and that benefits have been collated in response to the impact analysis.
- Benefit Analysis – Coordinate and lead on ensuring that identified benefits analysis is developed and disseminated to project sponsors, senior managers and project stakeholders where applicable.
- Stakeholder management and engagement – Coordinate Stakeholder analysis and comms with project and Comms team and ensure that stakeholder management is an ongoing process.
- Facilitation – Liaise with business owners, business architects business users change and technical teams to identify solutions.
- System Analysis – Lead on the work of systems analysis to ensure business needs are translated into solutions against identified time lines, & work with technical leads to ensure business needs are translated into the technical solutions.
- Assurance and Quality – Apply recognised methodologies; audit test and quality gates; review deliverables from team & releases.
- Traceability – Manage the delivery of change against a fully auditable process.
- Business Improvement – Lead on the work with Business Improvement teams on business readiness and the identification of BAU enhancements and their solutions to ensure that defined project benefits are delivered.
- Business Solution Design – Coordinate change with policy and strategy to ensure business systems, workflows and processes contribute to target operating model.
- Delivery Products Tools and Documentation – Coordinate development and application of: frameworks; application of methodologies; operating model/target operating model; functional specification; user cases; user stories; UAT plans and strategy; entry/exit and /or no/no go criteria; defect analysis; forms and templates; guidance; business case.
- Ensure appropriate business analysis is conducted to support the role of the PMO, its Sub Portfolios and Programmes.
- Manipulate and analyse large volumes of information using appropriate tools and methods to verify data quality and use robust problem-solving abilities.
- Complete Quantitative and Qualitative analysis.
- Responsible for further investigation of particularly complex issues or to identify difficult underlying trends.
Key Requirements:
- Appropriate analytical or business improvement skills gained in a project or non-project environment.
- An analyst with strong analysis skills with competency in Data science techniques, experienced in using a broad range of techniques to support delivery of business outcomes.
- Able to assimilate and report information which is able to draw out trends and insights which aids strategic business decision making.
- In this role you will have the following typical responsibilities depending upon your experience and the complexity of Sub-Portfolio/Programme you are supporting:
- An extensive analytical understanding and ability to handle complex management information and analysis tasks.
- Full knowledge of project lifecycle and experience of working in a P3 environment, Quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and techniques.
- Dealing with multiple data sources presenting in a clear and concise format
- Ability to use MS Office Applications, Intermediate level MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
- Working experience of data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)
- Knowledge and experience of process mapping.
- Experience of developing plans to mature tools and techniques.
- Stakeholder engagement including reporting, communicating and influencing across all levels of the business
- An ability to describe complex analytical information to non-specialist audiences - Working in a fast paced delivery environment, managing and prioritising multiple data requests from various stakeholders.
- Quality Management.
Desirable Requirements:
- Familiarity of Government, Defence or security sector
- Experience of Business Change and implementation
- Good understanding of finance data and an ability to blend this with P3 data
- Change Control
- Experience in R
- Advanced MS Excel skills
- Understanding of financial forecasting
Memberships - Desirable
- APM or equivalent
- Chartered Management Institute
Qualifications - Desirable
- BA/BSc/BEng degree in Data Science, Economics, Statistics, Finance, Social Science, Psychology, or any related fields (i.e. Mathematics, Engineering), or equivalent practical experience
- MOP
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- APM Practitioner Qualification
- MSP Practitioner
- Security Clearance: SC SOLE UK NATIONAL
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- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Qualifications and experience relevant to the job role – please give full details within your CV document
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- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for
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