
Consultant - Manager, Business Analyst (Functional) Design, Defence & Security
- England
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to capture and document business requirements to ensure a clear understanding of their needs and objectives.
- Conduct detailed analysis of business processes, systems and data to identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation.
- Facilitate workshops and interviews to gather requirements, user stories and use cases.
- Analyse and document business processes, workflows and system interactions to ensure alignment with business goals.
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications and user stories to ensure clarity and feasibility for development teams.
- Perform data analysis to identify trends, patterns and insights which can drive business decision-making and process improvements.
- Define and implement product centric operating models, enabling products to be delivered more efficiently and effectively.
- Manage product ownership practices and processes, ensuring products developed meet the customer requirements.
- Conduct impact assessments and feasibility studies to evaluate proposed solutions and identify potential risks and dependencies.
- Collaborate with project managers to develop project plans, timelines and deliverables.
- Support testing and quality assurance activities, ensuring that solutions meet the defined requirements.
- Provide ongoing support and guidance to clients and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies related to business analysis.
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar role, with a strong track record of successfully delivering business requirements within a project delivery environment and an excellent understanding of how business analysis can deliver value to an organization.
- Experience working on Transformation and/or complex delivery or equivalent projects.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex business needs into actionable requirements.
- Proficiency in business analysis techniques, such as process modelling & lean practices, use case development and requirements elicitation.
- Experience with Agile delivery and knowledge of methodologies and tools, such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe 5.0, LeSS.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate.
- Knowledge of how PowerBI, Tableau, QlikSense or other analytical tools.
- Expertise in how to test against the requirements and ensure confidence in the outputs.
- Experience of working within the Public Sector or equivalent.
- Ability to understand, interpret, present and challenge technical and/or complex information to colleagues at all levels of an organization.
- Experience with successfully managing scope in challenging environments.
- Experience of developing & maintaining strong relationships with business stakeholders with the ability to challenge & influence where required.
- Experience with Lean Portfolio Management and associated processes.