Business Analyst - £450 Inside - 6 months

Project overview

Job Title: Business Analyst

Project details

£450 (Inside IR35)

6 Months

Remote - Occasional travel required to Newcastle per month

Clearance: BPSS

Stages: 2 Stage

Key Responsibilities

Essential Skills & Experience

• Elicit, analyse and document business requirements through workshops, interviews and stakeholder engagement.
• Produce clear user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Map current ("As-Is") and future ("To-Be") business processes.
• Analyse existing services and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary Agile teams throughout the delivery life cycle.
• Support backlog refinement and prioritisation with Product Owners.
• Facilitate discovery, Alpha, beta and live phases in accordance with the Government Digital Service (GDS) framework.
• Conduct gap analysis and impact assessments.
• Identify business risks, assumptions and dependencies.
• Work closely with technical teams to translate business requirements into deliverable solutions.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and business readiness activities.
• Maintain traceability between business requirements, user stories and delivered functionality.
• Produce high-quality documentation including:
• Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)
• Functional Specifications
• Process Maps
• Options Appraisals
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Benefits Realisation Plans
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within Agile delivery teams.
• Strong stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience facilitating workshops and requirements gathering sessions.
• Excellent process mapping skills using BPMN or similar techniques.
• Experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban.
• Ability to perform business process analysis and service improvement.
• Experience managing conflicting priorities and stakeholder expectations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities.
• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 Months
• Location: United Kingdom, GB
• Rate: 56-56 EUR/h