C2/SEO - Business Analyst
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £41,880 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 April 2024 |
| Location: | Croydon |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 347701/8 |
Summary
Our Transformation Team within Change and Technology Services plays a key role in the transformation of the agency, outlined in the 5-year strategy. Our Project Managers, Project Support Officers and Business Analysts lead the delivery of change across the agency, working with a diverse range of stakeholders and external service providers.
Business Analyst Team
We are looking for a Business Analyst to work on projects across the agency, which will tangibly improve outcomes for our colleagues and customers. Our Business Analysts work on a range of projects including supporting the delivery of improvements to our internal IT infrastructure, digitisation of service delivery, policy related change and estates.
The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career.
Business Analysts assist with introducing change to all areas of the agency. Successful candidates will mainly be responsible for leading workshops, eliciting requirements, process design and mapping and many more business analysis related tasks for projects and other types of change. You will ensure that business needs are understood and translated into requirements that enable the selection, design, and delivery of technology enabled business solutions with innovation and customer experience at the heart of design principles.
Responsibilities
Undertake the methodical investigation, analysis, review and documentation of all or part of the organisations' business, information and data related to capabilities, functions, and processes.
Identify and assess new and alternative approaches to performing business activities and opportunities for improvement or automation.
Adhere to corporate IT strategy and the principles of standardisation and simplification of processes and technologies.
Capture decisions, assumptions and functional requirements, non-functional requirements, user stories and associated acceptance criteria.
Translation of requirements to commercial terms to support the procurement and SIAM provider processes.
Creation of viable functional specifications and acceptance criteria.
Manage requirements throughout the project lifecycle ensuring traceability, version control.
Map out As-Is, and design and map To-Be processes for a range of departments across the Agency.
Support management of change, functional testing, and implementation.
Support cost and benefit analysis relating to new approaches.
Adhere to standards and methods for business analysis activities to support consistency and quality.
Contribute to continuous improvement of business analysis standards and products, to drive excellence within the team.
Work collaboratively with business users, third parties, the project team and IT throughout the systems implementation lifecycle.
Working in partnership with the Project Manager, providing leadership to the delivery of the overall project.
Support colleagues in identifying new and alternate approaches to performing business activities and other tasks commensurate with the post.
Facilitate discussions and workshops with technical and non-technical individuals at all levels of experience and seniority.