Business Analyst - Senior Consultant

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The role

Requirements

Essential experience

To succeed in this role, you’ll need experience as a Business Analyst and be able to demonstrate with tangible examples that you can:

• Recent government (public sector) experience and/or experience of delivering complex digital services that meet Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.
• Apply business analysis techniques (e.g. SWOT, 5 Whys) to understand business context, processes, and systems; analyse root causes, define problems, evaluate options, and make recommendations aligned with strategic goals.
• Elicit, analyse, and validate business and user requirements, using techniques such as BPMN process flows, wireframing and data analysis.
• Define epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements; maintain traceability and facilitate prioritisation.
• Use business modelling, process improvement, and digital/data systems analysis to represent organisations, processes, relationships, and systems; identify gaps, recommend improvements, and support implementation and validation.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and cross-functional teams, communicating clearly, reaching consensus, and adapting messages to different audiences.
• Analyse and prioritise user experience needs, presenting insights in an accessible, data-informed way.
• Support testing by defining business scenarios and acceptance criteria, reviewing prototypes, test plans, and outcomes to ensure solutions meet requirements.
• Deliver to the highest quality, adhering to recognised industry standards and frameworks (e.g. GOV.UK Service Standards), in large and complex organisations.
• Work collaboratively in multidisciplinary Agile teams, validating process and system improvements and delivering project objectives effectively.
• Present complex information in a way that is easy to understand, engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Worked on major transformation programmes and/or across multiple project workstreams.
• Line managing, coaching or mentored junior business analysts, supporting their development and delegating work effectively.
• Building meaningful, long-term relationships with senior client and third-party stakeholders, managing competing interests and priorities.

With a significant proportion of our client base in the public sector, we are particularly interested in candidates with experience working in central or local government and/or the NHS.

Experience working to the GOV.UK Service Standards, including passing service standard assessments at different stages, is a key requirement. If you have this experience, please demonstrate this on your CV to discuss at interview. 

Essential consulting skills

• Contribute to improving ways of working and driving continuous improvements within your teams.
• Share knowledge and best practice with fellow business analysts and other disciplines, including proactively engaging in client and Opencast communities of practice.
• Positively challenge decisions or solutions you don’t agree with, striving for the best client outcomes.
• Create lasting value in the projects you work on, ensuring a user-centric, sustainable approach.
•  Engage with Opencast in a meaningful way, supporting the growth of your practice and wider capability.
• Support Opencasts growth plans, by providing case studies and updates into the relevant forums of your project work.
•  Support other team members to help them overcome their own challenges, providing coaching and/or mentoring support.
•  Proactively pursue feedback to improve your own work and behaviours and driving a culture of continuous improvement in your team.
• Contribute to the commercial needs of Opencast, including supporting new business pursuits with business analysis knowledge.

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