Business Analyst / Business Change Manager

Business Analyst / Business Change Manager

Role Summary

We have an exciting new contract opportunity based in Preston as a Business Analyst / Business Change Manager.

The role will be an initial 6 month contract and will provide you with working in a key role which supports the successful delivery and benefits realisation for IT and Business Transformation projects within Shared Services EITS.

Key Responsibilities

Performing BA/BCM duties on medium / large sized projects as the sole BA/BCM, and/or support work–packages on a larger project or programme
Working with the Project Manager in identifying project stakeholders, defining the project scope and its business justification.
Collecting, analysing and gaining approval for critical success factors and business requirements
Planning and leading workshops with stakeholders at all levels for requirements and business process capture and documentation
Identifying the impacts of change and preparing stakeholders to embed change
Developing and gaining approval for system requirements (functional and non–functional)
Being responsible for ensuring change control and change management procedures are followed within the project team as they relate to requirements
Supporting development teams, third party suppliers and test communities by acting as the voice of the customer on projects
Where required, acting as the Business Change Manager, being responsible for developing and driving the business change management activities in line with the wider project activity. This may involve working with Business Change leads and Transition Teams
Supporting continuous improvement through feedback on the existing processes. Providing the Project Manager with estimates for BA tasks for further project phases and status reports for BA activities

Key skills & qualifications

Have strong experience of eliciting and documenting requirements for technical projects, including leading workshops for requirements and business process capture.
Have demonstrable experience of working within a structured and well governed IT Project environment.
Have demonstrable evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes
Have demonstrable evidence of driving & delivering business change.
Have experience of delivering work streams across multiple simultaneous projects.
Have proven experience interacting directly with end users and technical project stakeholders as well as senior stakeholders.
Experience of Stage Gate delivery processes such as PRINCE2 and non–PRINCE 2 delivery methodologies e.g. agile.

What we're looking for in you

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Well–developed analytical/ problem solving/ decision making skills.

Strong organisational skills who is adaptable in a fast–paced environment.

Stakeholder management skills.

Working from Home During Covid

Location: Preston

Rate: GBP487.39 per hour (INSIDE IR35)

AAP3 is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy