Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh/Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Business Analyst for an initial 6 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £424/day (Outside IR35). This role will be a hybrid of working at home and in the office.

Responsibilities:

- Maintaining an audit trail of decisions, assumptions and outstanding questions
- Assist in the identification, evaluation and tracking of business benefits
- Collaborate with colleagues to inform key transition points and roadmap outcomes
- Identify new process and customer opportunities
- Support business leaders in both their tactical and strategic work to deliver solutions that work for customers and the organisation
- Collaborate with our business change teams to identify and help remove issues that may hinder the adoption of new processes or ways of working
- Support, participate and engage with digital suppliers
- Actively participate in the Business Analysis Community of Practice sharing best practice techniques and domain progress
- Support junior staff with their development and upskilling.
- Work with our communication and organisational design professionals to assist in helping to reduce the impact of change requirement for business analyst services
- Be confident in engaging stakeholders and working with established governance forums such as the technical design authority
- Collaborate with Business Analysts from other domains, when required, on overlapping deliveries.
- Support any secondary activities as requested by the Lead Business Analyst.

Essential Skills:

- Agile working: Can identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. Know how to help the team to decide the best approach. Can help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP), print and scope.
- Business analysis: Can take responsibility for investigative work into problems and opportunities in existing and new services. Know how to drive the analysis and collection of information to create recommendations for service improvements. Can analyse large amounts of complex information and use it to produce solutions.
- Business improvement process: Know how to analyse current services and processes and can identify and implement opportunities to optimise these. Can help to evaluate and establish requirements using relevant techniques such as gap analysis.
- Business modelling: Can model more advanced and complex situations across more than one business function or programme. Know how to gather insight from senior stakeholders and communicate modelling results clearly to them.
- Business process testing: Can take responsibility for the creation of test cases. Can create traceability records, from test cases back to requirements.
- Digital perspective: Have the ability to apply a digital understanding to your work. Can identify and implement solutions for assisted digital.
- Enterprise and business architecture: Can contribute to the creation and maintenance of the target operating model and identify the impact on operational service.
- Innovation: Can lead others to innovate in their work as well as enabling them to innovate on their own.
- Methods and tools: Know how to ensure that teams are using the right tools and methodologies and promote their use.
- Requirements definition and management: Can facilitate the setting of business priorities for change initiatives of high complexity. Know how to lead on requirements analysis and take responsibility for the investigation and implementation of changes to programme scope.
- Stakeholder relationship management: Can influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively. Know how to build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders.
- Testing (business analysis): Can define test condition requirements. Know how to work according to test plans to design, interpret and execute them. Can highlight reports and risks and analyse results based on tests and activities.
- User focus: Know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. Understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. Can champion user research to focus on all users. Can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. Can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.
- Specialist skill: technical architecture experience

Desirable Skills:

- A working knowledge of Business Canvas Modelling, Value Proposition Design or Wardley map techniques
- Experience with prioritisation techniques such as cost of delay or similar
- Familiarity with creation of conceptual wireframes
- Background in lean UX, six-sigma, system thinking approaches or similar
- Formal qualification with IIBA or similar body

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.