Business Analyst

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Business Analyst

Whitehall Resources require a Business Analyst to work with a key client on a 6 month initial contract.

*Inside IR35.

*This role will be mostly remote, with occasional visits to Newcastle.

Business Analyst

Job Description:
A senior business analyst has a good understanding of strategic arenas and leads large or complex projects.
At this role level, you will:
* Have functional or people management responsibilities, or a combination of both
* Mentor others
* Develop best practice
* Own stakeholder relationships
* Manage community of practice activities within a business area

Skill:
* Adapting to delivery methodologies:
– Determine the approach for your role within the team’s delivery methodology
– Define and agree the scope of delivery for your role within a multidisciplinary team
– Negotiate and agree delivery priorities with the team and relevant stakeholders
– Clearly communicate the value of iterative delivery and realising benefits early

* Business modelling
– Guide the selection and use of business modelling techniques to ensure consistency
-Define and share good practices for eliciting appropriate information to create effective models
– Create models and diagrams that represent complex and large-scale situations
– Use business modelling outcomes to support strategic decision making

* Business process improvement
– Lead process analysis and evaluation to define business performance problems and opportunities
– Lead analysis and evaluation to design, test, implement and assess business process improvements
– Manage the design, execution and assessment of business process tests and usability evaluations

* Context, problem and option analysis
– Lead the approach to understanding the context, the problem and root causes
– Set goals for a piece of work that aligns to the organisation’s strategic context
– Lead the approach to developing and evaluating multiple options, sharing and advocating for recommendations to gain support

* Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements
– Lead the elicitation, analysis and validation of complex or large-scale business and user needs, negotiating and addressing conflicts
– Define and assure artefacts, such as problem statements, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements, to communicate business and user needs
– Lead and define the approach to manage artefacts and ensure traceability
– Facilitate the prioritisation of needs, aligning to strategic goals

* Digital and data systems analysis
– Lead the analysis of functionality that systems deliver or need to deliver
– Create, and support others in the creation of, system and data models and documentation
– Assess the effect of system changes and share them with relevant stakeholders
– Determine when and how you and your team work with others to identify gaps in functionality and user experience, and their impact

* Stakeholder relationship management
– Work with the team to develop and maintain an understanding of stakeholders
– Work with the team to develop and implement stakeholder communications strategies
– Identify and resolve issues, influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively
– Build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders

* Testing (business analysis)
– Recommend the value of testing and apply the relevant tools and techniques to ensure test validity
– Advise on business scenarios and develop acceptance criteria to ensure requirements can be traced to develop functionality
– Review prototypes, test plans and test outcome reporting

* User experience analysis
– Advise on the approach to analysis, prioritisation and validation of user experience needs
– Recommend a range of techniques to analyse the user experience and ensure that it meets business and user needs
– Articulate and communicate user exp

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Whitehall Resources are an equal opportunities employer who value a diverse and inclusive working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

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