Business Analyst
£33,000 - £37,000, Pension, 25 Days Holiday, Flexible Time Scheme
Blackburn, Lancashire
Full Time
The Company
Established public sector business located in the busy area of Blackburn is looking to expand their projects division. Significant new ventures have made the new projects thier top priority.
The Role
As a business analyst you will be required to support delivery of the organisations business transformation strategy, by identifying key initiatives and business cases to secure the required service improvements and efficiencies. Ensure that council managers embed the learning from this programme so that they, too, drive up business performance.
You will lead business partnering activity for the department, creating and maintaining highly effective partnerships and relationships across all levels, between IT, M&G, Council Departments, Portfolios and key external partners.
Further responsibilities will be:
Responsible for the identification, scoping, analysis, evaluation, business cases for business transformation and improvement projects across the business.
Capture and interpret the business vision of departments, portfolios and service areas in relation to that of central government, and the local strategic partnership goals and objectives.
Carry out the role of business partner representing the IT, M&G department at all levels and where appropriate, representation of the wider resources directorate. Create, develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels within departments, portfolios and key external partners.
Deputise for the Head of Business Consultancy and provide support to teams whenever necessary.
The Person
Ideally to be successful in the role you will have had experience of working within local government environment, degree level or equivalent workplace experience and proven experience of investigation, analysis and problem solving in a complex and widely dispersed environment.
Further skills required are:
Knowledge and proven application of process mapping skills.
Advanced use of Microsoft Visio.
In depth experience of capturing and translating business needs/issues and objectives into requirements that are easily understood by the IT Team.
Substantial experience of process mapping including data flows, 'as-is' and 'to-be' processes costs for change activity.
Proven experience of developing and maintaining effective relationships across all levels.
Experience working on multiple projects, with varying objectives and across several service areas.
Experience working in a government or local authority service.
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