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Business Analysts Ref. 3275, Greater Manchester
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Location: Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
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Other
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Job Reference:
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78
Posted:
18.02.2025
Expiry Date:
04.04.2025
Job Description:
Department Technology Roles
Location(s): Central London, Greater Manchester
Salary: £53,715 - £59,351, dependent on location, skills, and experience (the pay package includes basic salary and a skills-related payment)
Flexible Working: we support a range of working patterns, full-time, part-time (minimum of 3 working days), compressed hours and job shares. Due to the nature of the role homeworking will not be possible.
About Us
MI5 and MI6 are part of the UK’s Intelligence Services. We work together to safeguard Britain’s people, interests, and businesses from various threats at home, overseas and online, including cyber-attacks, espionage, terrorism, and organised crime. Working across our vital missions, you’ll deliver impact at the heart of national security, all within a supportive and inclusive environment that allows everyone to thrive.
The Role
Technology and transformation are at the forefront of everything we do. As a Business Analyst, you’ll help us stay ahead by evolving our business processes and playing a key role in our digital missions. You’ll do this by understanding our unique problems as well as working on technology-focused project delivery and organisational transformation to deliver the services we need for the future. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll get to grips with a range of complex business problems as you collaborate with colleagues to understand needs, challenges, and opportunities.
You’ll review business processes, always looking for ways to optimise and engage with stakeholders to refine requirements. Using modelling techniques to structure and understand the data and convert this into valuable information, while identifying and measuring the impact of change. You’ll achieve all this by working with key stakeholders to meet user needs, communicating with a variety of people, and using your evidence to support and explain key decisions. Always ensuring the proposed solution aligns with business goals and objectives and achieves the required outcomes and the expected benefits which will be crucial. You’ll undertake impact analysis, drawing together themes, making recommendations, and defining criteria for the success of a product or programme before measuring its delivery.
As a Business Analyst, you’ll be keen to develop, staying up to date on the latest business analysis methodologies and techniques, supporting business change and influencing stakeholders to become truly excited about your vision. Crucially, you’ll contribute to the Business Analysis community of Practice both within the organisation and with other government departments, driving forward a collaborative, joined-up approach, actively promoting knowledge sharing between team members, partners and stakeholders.
About You
You’ll have experience as a Business Analyst, defining and shaping problems while working with a wide range of stakeholders to meet customer needs. You’ll also have experience with delivery methodologies such as Waterfall or Agile, showing how you’ve embedded change within an organisation and used quantitative and qualitative data to turn user focus into business outcomes.
You’ll have experience of adapting quickly in an ambiguous problem space; applying different methodologies to explore unknowns and test hypotheses, for example using Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Hypothesis Testing, and others. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your experience of working in wider innovation ecosystems and an aptitude as a trusted partner to problem owners, helping them navigate through the innovation system and to maximise the value from it.
You can retain a coherent view of the bigger picture and how teams, people and innovation fit into it as a system.
A good communicator, you’re able to communicate complex matters succinctly, influencing people as you work in politically sensitive areas and adapt to complex or uncertain situations. Importantly, you’ll be motivated and proactive, with the ability to plan for the short and long term.
As a Business Analyst, it’s important that you’ve analysed business problems and recommended a range of technical and non-technical solutions. You’ll already have had some training, and you may also be working towards one of the recognised BA certifications, such as the BCS (British Computer Society) or IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis). You’ll be able to apply structured approaches to business problems; help to ensure solutions meet business and user needs; as well as analyse goals, objectives, functions, and processes. You’ll also be able to conduct options analysis, contribute to business case development, and work with limited direction to complete tasks.
Training and Development
When you join us, you’ll have a full induction to the organisation, which will help you get to grips with how we operate. You’ll then have a team induction to give you a rounded understanding of your role, followed by on-the-job training to help you settle in.
We’re committed to developing our staff and recognise this will look different for everyone. We’ll use the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability framework (formerly known as Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Profession Capability Framework) as a compass to provide guidance and tools to support you, so there’ll be lots of tailored training, coaching, and mentoring. And we’ll cover the cost and provide you with the time and support to gain professional qualifications and certifications and pursue specialist business analysis pathways.
Whatever your professional goals, we’ll work with you to build the skills you need to excel at your role and throughout your career.
As you develop, grow, and maintain your technical skills, you’ll progress through the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability framework pay points. You’ll need to regularly demonstrate and accredit your skills based on the framework.
*Salary Detail: Most new starters can expect to start at the lower end of the pay range. Candidates who meet a higher competency requirement and can demonstrate evidence of specialised technical work can expect to receive a higher starting salary, which will include pensionable and non-pensionable elements.
Rewards and Benefits
You’ll receive a starting salary of £53,715- £59,351 as a Business Analyst dependent on location, skills, and experience.
* Other benefits include 25 days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays.
* Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme.
* Interest-free season ticket loan (parking and travel).
* Excellent pension scheme.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Facilities such as a gym and restaurant, and on-site coffee bars (at some locations).
* Paid parental and adoption leave.
Equal Opportunities
At MI5 and MI6 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
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