SEO Senior Business Analyst
| Posting date: | 08 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £47,949 to £52,222 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47949 to £52222 (National). |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 September 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 426191/3 |
Summary
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.
We are looking for a Senior 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.
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
As a Business Analyst, you will:
- identify and assess new and alternative approaches to performing business activities and opportunities for improvement or automation
- gather needs and translate them to user stories, functional and non-functional business requirements
- creation of acceptance criteria supporting User Stories
- support cost and benefit analysis
- cross reference user stories to benefits map. Identify any additional benefits from user stories as they are created
- translation of requirements to commercial terms to support the procurement and SIAM provider processes
- manage requirements throughout the change lifecycle ensuring traceability and version control
- map out As-Is, and design and map To-Be processes for a range of departments across the Agency
- work collaboratively with business users, third parties, the project team and IT throughout the systems implementation lifecycle
- support management of change, functional testing, and implementation
- facilitate discussions and workshops with technical and non-technical individuals at all levels of experience and seniority
- work in partnership with the Project Manager, providing leadership to the delivery of the overall project
- lead and mentor other business analysts, providing guidance and support in the execution of projects, initiatives, and professional development. Actively sharing knowledge and expertise
Further Information
To find out more about this opportunity, please join us at a virtual drop-in session as listed below:
Session 1: Thursday 18th September 10:00 – 10:30
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZmJiZWUwOWEtNjQ1MC00YmExLThhYmEtMWRkZGNiM2YyMzFk%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229a18d34a-f01e-4c31-ad16-523150b47949%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a1a8ca42-8efc-4e57-81e5-0b81699f5939%22%7d
Meeting ID: 344 923 496 990 7
Passcode: Ce2WD2iW
Session 2: Monday 22nd September 14:00 – 14:30
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjM4ZTZlY2EtM2M4Ni00OGY3LTgwN2ItZGJhZTVmNTkxZDMx%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%229a18d34a-f01e-4c31-ad16-523150b47949%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a1a8ca42-8efc-4e57-81e5-0b81699f5939%22%7d
Meeting ID: 369 062 050 551 5
Passcode: oP28Zp62
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