DV Business Analyst

Business Analyst Contract:

- 12 months from start

- Inside IR35

- DV clearance required

- Site working in GLoucester

- 3 to 4 days per week in office

- 37.5 hours per week

The role of the Business Analyst is to support project teams to develop and implement appropriate methodologies for projects. The role holder must be able to communicate well with clients and accurately understand their requirements, as well as being able to work effectively with project teams to deliver collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

The correct candidate requires a working knowledge and demonstrable experience in all or some of the following areas:

* Exemplary stakeholder engagement and management skill

* Experience facilitating workshops with wide range of stakeholders

* Ability to build strong and lasting relationships with clients at all levels in a business environment

* Communications planning and implementation

* Requirements Definition & Management skills

* Visio - process modelling

* Atlassian Suite - Confluence and JIRA

* Leadership and Reporting

* Experience of waterfall and agile deliveries

* Experience of preparing affected business areas for transitioning to new ways of working

* Experience of guiding stakeholders through business transformations

* Beneficial to have LEAN, Six Sigma or other business improvement methodologies.

Responsibilities:

* Analysing processes and operations, using appropriate tools and techniques to identify improvements in accordance with client objectives this will include workshop facilitation to engage people gathering inputs to your analysis and sharing ideas and conclusions

* Succinctly articulate methodologies and approaches

* Baseline business performance and follow through to benefits realisation

* Write engaging project summary reports for clients to enable change implementation

* Preparing reports and presenting to a range of client stakeholders

* Working collaboratively with senior stakeholders in technology-led transformation programmes, across strategy, business design and change management.

* Analysing complex problems, designing innovative solutions and communicating them effectively to a wide range of audiences.

* Delivering transformational change, with awareness and knowledge of business change models, tools and techniques.

* Works iteratively with stakeholders, to identify potential benefits and available options for consideration, and in defining acceptance tests.

* Facilitates scoping and business priority setting for change initiatives of medium, size and complexity.

* Contributes to the selection of the most appropriate means of representing business requirements in the context of a specific change initiative, ensuring full traceability from Front Door Request to the work delivering the requirements.

* Identifies the impact on business requirements of interim (e.g. migration) scenarios as well as the required end position.

* Work alongside suppliers and delivery team members to deliver to required timescales and agreed quality.

* Provide knowledge transfer to other team members.

* Contribute to lessons learned and process improvements.

To be considered please send through an updated CV.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.