Permanent

Business Analyst

Ref: BBBH68163_1789463789

England

Business Analyst

Whitehall Resources currently require an experienced Business Analyst to work with a key client

**Please note this role requires onsite effort in Telford on a weekly basis and falls INSIDE IR35**

Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis & Discovery
* Analyse programme objectives, business needs, risks, constraints, and dependencies.
* Elicit, document, and manage business requirements, as is processes and support the new solution and to be using workshops, interviews, and stakeholder engagement.
* Produce clear and concise analysis artefacts, recommendations, and decision papers.
* Support discovery and definition activities for the project.

Stakeholder Management
* Build effective relationships, programme teams, architecture, delivery, and operational stakeholders.
* Facilitate workshops, governance forums, show-and-tell sessions, and planning meetings.
* Present analysis findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Governance & Delivery Support
* Support programme governance, reporting, risk management, and decision-making processes.
* Track actions, risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
* Contribute to monthly reporting and delivery management activities.

SoW & Initiative Definition
* Support the development of Statements of Work, business cases, roadmaps, and delivery plans.
* Define scope, objectives, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, and expected outcomes for new initiatives.
* Ensure outputs are aligned to programme and strategic objectives.

Required Skills and Experience
* Proven Senior Business Analyst experience within large-scale digital transformation programmes.
* Strong requirements elicitation, analysis, modelling, and documentation skills.
* Experience managing complex stakeholder groups and facilitating workshops.
* Demonstrable experience identifying and managing risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
* Experience producing high-quality governance and delivery documentation.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.
* Experience using Jira, Confluence, Miro, Visio, or equivalent collaboration tooling.
* Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Desirable
* Experience within government or public sector environments.
* Experience working within AWS, migration, databases.
* Understanding of enterprise architecture and strategic planning.
* Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and Government Digital Service (GDS) delivery approaches.

Expected Deliverables
The successful candidate will be expected to:
* Produce requirements, impact assessments, options papers, and stakeholder communications.
* Document dependencies and alignment activities across programmes.
* Support governance forums and reporting activities.
* Define and contribute to SoW development and roadmap planning.
* Ensure decisions, actions, and outcomes are documented and traceable.
* Lead complex analysis activities across multiple workstreams.
* Operate confidently with senior business and technical stakeholders.
* Drive consensus across competing priorities and stakeholder groups.
* Translate strategic objectives into actionable delivery outcomes.
* Deliver high-quality analysis products with limited oversight.

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.