🕒 3 days ago
Seeking an experienced Business Analyst to bridge business needs and technology delivery, working closely with stakeholders and development teams to ensure business value is realized.
Business Analyst - Consultant
📅 Mar 17, 2023
Business AnalysisStakeholder ManagementAgile MethodologiesSWOT Analysis
📜 Description
- Collaborate with product managers, software developers, and designers to tackle complex problems.
- Build strong relationships with client stakeholders to translate needs into actionable requirements.
- Ensure all work adheres to high standards, including quality and security policies.
- Utilize business analysis techniques to define problems and recommend strategic solutions.
- Support testing by defining business scenarios and reviewing outcomes to ensure requirements are met.
🛠️ Requirements
- Recent government (public sector) experience and/or experience of delivering complex digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
- Apply business analysis techniques (e.g. SWOT, 5 Whys) to understand business context, processes, and systems; analyse root causes, define problems, evaluate options, and make recommendations aligned with strategic goals
- Elicit, analyse, validate and prioritise business and user requirements, using techniques such as BPMN process flows, wireframing and data analysis
- Define epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements; maintain traceability and facilitate prioritisation
- Use business modelling, process improvement and digital/data systems analysis to represent organisations, processes, relationships, and systems; identify gaps, recommend improvements, and support implementation and validation
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and cross-functional teams, communicating clearly, reaching consensus and adapting messages to different audiences
- Analyse and prioritise user experience needs, presenting insights in an accessible, data-informed way.
- Support testing by defining business scenarios and acceptance criteria, reviewing prototypes, test plans and outcomes to ensure solutions meet requirements
- Deliver to the highest quality, adhering to recognised industry standards and frameworks (e.g. GOV.UK Service Standards), in large and complex organisations
- Work collaboratively in multidisciplinary Agile teams, validating process and system improvements and delivering project objectives effectively
✨ Benefits
- 7% employer pension contribution
- Share options
- Discretionary bonus
- 25 days' holiday
- 3 annual 'life happens' days for unexpected situations
- Wellbeing support
- Ongoing professional development
- Volunteering opportunities
Full job description
Want to solve impactful problems?
Are you looking to make a positive impact in your work? Do you want to work in an environment where you can grow, while solving problems to help improve government, healthcare and private sector services?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing technology consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose.
The role
As a Business Analyst (Consultant), you’ll bring a depth of experience and expertise from working in large, complex organisations.
You’ll collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams with product managers, software developers, user researchers, designers and other specialists to tackle interesting problems and deliver meaningful solutions for clients.
You’ll build strong relationships with client stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into clear, actionable requirements.
You’ll also ensure that all work meets Opencast’s high standards, including quality, environmental and information security policies, as well as any applicable client requirements and standards.
Requirements
This role involves weekly on-site working. Applicants should be able to travel, as part of their daily commute, to client sites in one of the following locations: Newcastle, Leeds or Manchester.
We’re looking for people who value in-person collaboration, enjoy building strong relationships, and are passionate about delivering solutions that make a real difference for our clients.
Due to the nature of this role, you must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.
SC clearance is granted in line with UK Government security vetting requirements. Typically, applicants must have UK citizenship and have lived continuously in the UK for at least the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. Nationality and immigration status may also be considered as part of the vetting process.
We are unable to progress applications from candidates who do not meet these requirements.
If you are unsure whether you meet the eligibility criteria, we encourage you to review the guidance or discuss this with us before applying.
We are recruiting for multiple positions, with opportunities available immediately and in the coming months. If you are interested in joining Opencast, we encourage you to apply.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you’ll have experience as a Business Analyst and be able to demonstrate, with tangible examples, that you can:
- Recent government (public sector) experience and/or experience of delivering complex digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
- Apply business analysis techniques (e.g. SWOT, 5 Whys) to understand business context, processes, and systems; analyse root causes, define problems, evaluate options, and make recommendations aligned with strategic goals
- Elicit, analyse, validate and prioritise business and user requirements, using techniques such as BPMN process flows, wireframing and data analysis
- Define epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements; maintain traceability and facilitate prioritisation
- Use business modelling, process improvement and digital/data systems analysis to represent organisations, processes, relationships, and systems; identify gaps, recommend improvements, and support implementation and validation
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and cross-functional teams, communicating clearly, reaching consensus and adapting messages to different audiences
- Analyse and prioritise user experience needs, presenting insights in an accessible, data-informed way.
- Support testing by defining business scenarios and acceptance criteria, reviewing prototypes, test plans and outcomes to ensure solutions meet requirements
- Deliver to the highest quality, adhering to recognised industry standards and frameworks (e.g. GOV.UK Service Standards), in large and complex organisations
- Work collaboratively in multidisciplinary Agile teams, validating process and system improvements and delivering project objectives effectively
- Present complex information in a way that is easy to understand, engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders
With a significant proportion of our client base in the public sector, we are particularly interested in candidates with experience working in central or local government and/or the NHS.
Experience working to the GOV.UK Service Standards, including passing service standard assessments at different stages, is a key requirement. If you have this experience, please demonstrate this on your CV to discuss at interview.
Essential consulting skills
In addition to business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be an Opencast consultant. You’ll need to demonstrate how you:
- Contribute to improving ways of working and driving continuous improvements within your teams.
- Share knowledge and best practice with fellow business analysts and other disciplines, including proactively engaging in client and Opencast communities of practice.
- Positively challenge decisions or solutions you don’t agree with, striving for the best client outcomes.
- Create lasting value in the projects you work on, ensuring a user-centric, sustainable approach.
- Engage with Opencast in a meaningful way, supporting the growth of your practice and wider capability.
- Support Opencast's growth plans, by providing case studies and updates into the relevant forums of your project work.
During the interview process, we’ll ask questions to explore your experience across these areas.
Salary
£45,000 - £59,000 per annum.
What we offer
A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options, and a discretionary bonus. You’ll also benefit from 25 days’ holiday and access to 3 annual “life happens” days to support unexpected situations. We provide wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities, and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.
Where you’ll work
This role requires regular on-site attendance at our HQ, hub offices, and client sites, as well as the ability to work from home. Applicants must be able to travel to offices and client sites across the UK as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential for fulfilling the responsibilities of the role.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.
Want to know more?
Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com
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