Hybrid Business Analyst – 6m FTC Pro rata

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About the role

  • Business Analyst for Rail Delivery Group focusing on accessibility journey planner development. Involves requirements gathering, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Understanding and clearly defining the scope of change and procurement initiatives
  • Working with customer, technical and other teams as required to understand detailed wants and needs, identifying and articulating solution options, rules, benefits and risks
  • Elaborating high level requirements from internal and external stakeholders into detailed functional and non-functional requirements that can be used in procurement documentation
  • Undertaking data analysis and investigation in support of the developing the requirements
  • Eliciting testing and service management requirements
  • Managing the prioritisation of requirements
  • Coordinating and inputting into the procurement evaluation process, evaluating suppliers’ proposals and capability to meet the requirements, either from existing solutions or from new developments
  • Reviewing technical designs to ensure the proposed solution meets requirements and rail industry standards
  • Supporting the development and review of commercial agreements and contracts ensuring that
  • Defining acceptance criteria, ensuring that the supplier builds to specification and achieves both those criteria and the project’s goals
  • Contributing to and ensuring that all business analysis deliverables align with the BA Practice community and standards

Requirements

  • Requirements gathering and documentation
  • Experience of procurement processes and deliverables (e.g. RFI, RFP)
  • Data analysis skills to investigate and identify needs and requirements (e.g. Excel/SQL)
  • Minimum of 5 years working as a business analyst or in a closely related area in a professional environment
  • Knowledge of web analytics (e.g. Google Analytics) is beneficial
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience and knowledge of analysis activities across the full project development lifecycle
  • Experience of documenting requirements using use cases, user stories and other techniques
  • System and business process modelling and re-engineering
  • Collaboration and facilitation skills to work effectively with a broad range of both internal and external stakeholders
  • Experience of running workshops and posing the right questions to gather requirements and challenge design details and assumptions
  • Attention to detail, enabling issues to be identified, coupled with thoroughness and a determination to resolve them
  • Ability to produce excellent quality written documentation to support your work, report on findings and present to stakeholders when required
  • Proactive and delivery focussed
  • Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to balance customer, project, and development needs for a particular project delivery, escalating any conflict at appropriate times
  • Exposure to and understanding of agile and traditional project management frameworks
  • Experience of modelling tools such as Visio is desirable
  • Professional business analysis certifications (IIBA, BCS etc) are welcomed.

Benefits

  • 75% off rail travel for personal and family use, plus international rail discounts.
  • 30 Days annual leave (plus buy/sell options and additional leave for key life events)
  • Season ticket loan for commuting costs.
  • Enhanced family leave – 30 weeks full pay for maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and shared parental leave.
  • Pension scheme – up to 11.58% employer contribution.
  • Private medical insurance (Vitality PPP) including mental health and specialist care.
  • Discounted gym membership and access to wellbeing programmes.

Job title

Business Analyst – 6m FTC Pro rata

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£57,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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