Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Stirling, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Business Analyst on a permanent basis on a rate of £44,617/annum. This role will have flexible working arrangements.
 
Responsibilities:
 
– Analyse and understand a business problem or opportunity
– Undertake research and analysis to understand how a business or business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology
– Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures
– Identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and testing of services and business change
– Make decisions related to prioritisation and minimum viable product by using analysis led insights
 – Ensure new products and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals
– Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications
 
Essential Skills:
 
– Degree or equivalent relevant experience.
– Agile working: You can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.
– Business analysis:  You can recommend the approach to options analysis, feasibility assessment and operations, and can quantify potential business benefits. You can ensure the proposed solution aligns with business goals and objectives, and business and user needs, and achieves the required outcomes and expected benefits.
– Business modelling: You can lead on the modelling of processes, systems and data at varying levels of detail or complexity across a project or programme. You can manage the effects of proposed changes.
– Business process improvement: You can identify opportunities to improve business performance, within a project or programme. You can lead the analysis, identification, design, prioritisation and implementation of process and business changes to improve business operations and services.
– Business process testing: You can lead on the application of business analysis and evaluation skills to support the design, execution and assessment of business process tests and usability evaluations within a project or programme of work.
– Methods and tools: You can build capability in methods and tools, ensuring they are adopted consistently and used effectively.
– Requirements definition and management: You can advise on the approach to requirements management within a project or programme. You can co-ordinate and review the prioritisation of requirements and engage in the negotiation of solutions to help meet programme objectives.
– Stakeholder relationship management (business analysis): You can lead on communicating with stakeholders, clarifying needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of consequences while focusing on user and business needs. 
– Systems analysis: You can lead the identification and analysis of IT system capabilities, developing models and system requirements. You can use systems analysis to support a deeper understanding of how processes and systems work, and to identify gaps.
– Testing (business analysis): You can recommend the value of testing and apply the relevant tools and techniques to ensure test validity. You can advise on business scenarios and develop acceptance criteria to ensure requirements can be traced to develop functionality. 
– User experience analysis: You can advise on the approach to analysis, prioritisation and validation of user experience needs. You can recommend a range of techniques to analyse the user experience and ensure that it meets business and user needs. You can articulate and communicate how user experience needs affect the design of a system in a project or programme of work.
– A solid track record of business analysis in a digital/ICT project environment, where you have applied business analysis techniques to identify, investigate and communicate complex problems and opportunities to a wide range of stakeholders.
– Knowledge and use of techniques, and practices including writing business cases, carrying out as-is and to-be process analysis, documenting technical and non-technical requirements.
– Excellent relationship management skills across technical and business streams, along with experience of running and facilitating workshops.
– Experience working in a collaborative environment, ideally as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team and the ability to deliver iterative design components (including user journeys) to the development team.
 
Desirable Skills:
 
– Post Graduate Degree in relevant Discipline
– Corporate Membership of approved body
– People supervisory experience
– Budgetary management experience
 
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.