Lead Business Analyst

Job Description
LEAD BUSINESS ANALYST - HYBRID ( MILTON KEYNES ) - 64K + BENS - 6 MONTH FTC
ABOUT THE ROLE
The primary role of the Lead Business Analyst (Lead BA) is to ensure that business processes and supporting systems continue to meet business project stakeholder needs. The Lead BA provides leadership across the organisation on BA techniques, ensuring standards are defined, and best practise is adopted.
This position is a key liaison between the technical IT colleagues that implement business process management technology (BPMT) - based solutions and the line-of-business that performs the process work (manually or in conjunction with automated systems). The Lead BA must be able to straddle the IT and business domains and communicate (or broker communications) between each side for complex business issues.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
Lead the BA practice, ensuring that appropriate standards and techniques are adopted and introducing continuous improvement to these in line with industry thinking
Work within guidelines driven from enterprise architecture by the business process architect when determining the current "as is" state of a business process, and update current-state business process documentation as needed
To produce agreed project deliverables and work products documented to industry standard, for example business requirements, requirements elaborations
To lead the delivery of the BA elements of agile methodologies
To deliver process development and improvement across
Define, document and agree business processes at all levels
Develop systems specifications and other work products
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Formal qualifications in Business Analysis
Working towards or have a project management certification for e.g. APMG, PRINCE2, IIBA or BSC
Knowledge or understanding of project methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile
Experience of leading BA delivery on complex projects or programmes (>£1m)
Proven experience in an agile and waterfall delivery environment
Intermediate level experience in all or some of the following: Scrum, Kanban, Time Boxing , Adaptive planning, Burn Down Lists
Experience of Customer Journey and Value Mapping, Use Cases, Storyboarding, Sprint Design, Sprint Management, Retrospectives
Background in root cause, bottleneck, impact and other process (not systems) analysis methods
Has operated as a BA in complex insurance or equivalent organisations
Proven ability to operate successfully across varied business functions
WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU
FTC for 6 months + Extension
Salary up to £64,000.00 per annum
35 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
IT kit supplied to you
£320 (before tax) start up allowance
Other Benefits include:
Contributory Group Stakeholder Personal pension scheme
Life Assurance
25 days holiday (plus public holidays)
Holiday purchase scheme
Sports and Social Club
24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
Free access to online tools to support mental and physical health
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
1 volunteer day each year and charity matched funding scheme
For more information and immediate consideration, please apply today.