Job Title: Lead Business Analyst
Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on experience and skills
What you'll be doing:
* Lead on understanding the business need when demand enters the programme, define initial project scope and articulate the supporting business justification.
* Lead BA function on a major programme of work.
* Create programme level approaches to Business Analysis.
* Maintain a holistic view across the programme and ensure best practices are followed.
* Support and direct a team of Business Analysts on their daily project expectations and help unblock their issues.
* Attend programme level stakeholder meetings to represent Business Analysis.
* Report to the Senior BA/Capability Lead, ensuring issues are escalated and seek their support and oversight where needed.
* Prioritise BA deliverables and communicate these to the project BAs.
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
* Experience in eliciting, documenting, and prioritising requirements for technical projects, including leading workshops for requirements and business process capture.
* Previous experience in stakeholder management, including influencing different levels of stakeholders across multiple business functions and areas.
Desirable:
* Demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well-governed IT Project environment.
* Recognised Business Analysis qualifications such as BCS BA Diploma, IIBA, Agile BA.
* IT qualification such as ITIL certification.
* Experience of working at a programme level or delivering across multiple simultaneous projects.
* Demonstrable evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes.
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including a green car scheme, private health plans, and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Business Analyst - Business Change team:
We are a team of experienced Business Change and Business Analyst professionals who deliver an end-to-end capability by engaging early on in the process to establish the needs of our customers, elicit their requirements, understand the impact of the change, and deliver tangible benefits. We provide a wide range of Service Offerings underpinned by industry-recognised tools and techniques.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example, dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder, etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must achieve at least the Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 22nd November 2024
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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