Business Analyst

Working on behalf of a Local Authority, Aatom Recruitment has an opportunity for a Business Analyst on 3 month contract with the possibility of an extension.

This role will work across the whole of the Digital and Innovation portfolio, supporting activity across core IT and technology, customer and digital. This will require a proactive and relentless focus on delivery.
The role is an enabling one, with user need at the heart of the approach taken to improve outcomes.
The postholder will be responsible for analysing and documenting business requirements and processes to ensure that technology solutions are aligned with business needs. The Business Analyst will work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements.

Skills required:

⦁ Ability to work in agile ways, identifying problems to solve and building evidence to drive product decisions
⦁ Ability to build and execute a backlog, translating user need into user stories
⦁ Ability to visualise service journeys across large and complex delivery areas; map current and future processes, to quantify steps and pain points, and to prioritise development as well as agree product scope
⦁ Ability to lead investigations into service gaps and friction, and make recommendations for service improvement
⦁ Ability to gather, distil, and simplify for an audience large amounts of data, judging what is and isn’t important, including writing reports that quickly help someone understand the problem to be solved
⦁ Ability to advise on the best mapping, data-gathering and investigative tools for teams
⦁ Ability to embody a product mindset and be intensely user-focused, using qualitative and quantitative data to track progress against user outcomes.
⦁ Strong communication skills, including communicating methodologies and projects to a diverse, non-expert audience who may be sceptical of a user-first or agile approach.
⦁ An absolute commitment to meet user need in the best, most efficient way

⦁ Resources / Financial Management
We expect you to manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in line with our processes.
⦁ Values and Behaviours
Our values and behaviours are at the heart of everything we do. We expect you to work in this empowering, engaging and encouraging your teammates to deliver our corporate vision
⦁ Compliance
We expect you to ensure legal, regulatory and policy compliance in area of your specialism, identifying opportunities and risks and escalate/report where appropriate
⦁ Equality and diversity
We value equality and diversity and we want you to support and promote this in your day-to-day work.

If that sounds good to you, we’d love to talk! Please contact Anisha.