A new opportunity for a Business Analyst/Service Designer to start ASAP.

SC eligible/SC clearance is desirable.

4 month contract initially.

Remote working - There may be occasional (1- 2 within the timeframe) away days where travel will be required.

Services / outcomes required

Conduct analysis and identify where reports do/don’t match user needs (e.g., ORA, CEDAR, other end-of-day reporting) by reviewing current reporting suites across our client's teams.
Recommend design/s for a new reporting structure that is more user-focused and meets needs at both teams’ and enterprise level.
Facilitation of teams across our client to help define, communicate, land, and implement process changes as part of data and reporting transformation recommendations.

Business Analyst

User-focused approach. You’ll have a breadth of experience of gathering user, business and technical requirements .This will include experience synthesising needs at both micro and macro levels.
Operate in varying levels of detail. You'll focus both on detail of individual reports, and zoom out to consider enterprise level needs.
Facilitation:running workshops with client teams to elicit needs and build a shared understanding of data journey and needs across the organisation.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills. You’ll have experience quickly building relationships across multiple teams and establishing yourself as a trusted point of contact.
Landscape and gap analysis:You’ll be able to identify and scope discrete work packages and prioritise them effectively, communicating these packages and priorities back to the relevant teams.
Context switching. You’ll be able to quickly build knowledge of complex technical and policy spaces and quickly context-switch between different teams and audiences.
Data dependencies.Understanding and mapping dependencies across systems and data fields to assess the impact of change.
Business process and ecosystem mapping: Experience of mapping business processes and data flows across multiple services/systems and visualising these with clarity

Other skills/expectations:

Competent communicator who can work with key stakeholders (i.e. policy and product SMEs) to engineer the relevant requirements
Proactive and can work autonomously when performing analysis and problem exploration
Experience of working under Kanban ways of working
Competent in writing user stories/tech tickets for developers
Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
You'll understand data modelling at a conceptual and logical level and can map out how different services and systems utilise these models.

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