Lead Business Analyst

My client is seeking an experienced Lead Business Analyst to join their growing team. You will be responsible for leading a team of business analysts, overseeing resources, budgets, and timelines, ensuring the delivery of high-quality analysis and insights to support the organisation's strategic goals.

Responsibilities:Leadership

• Manage and lead a team of 70 business analysis project teams, including 8 senior business analysts, ensuring high performance and achievement of targets while maintaining business analysis standards, frameworks, and quality.
• Oversee the development and career progression of business analysts within the team.

Resources

• Develop and implement best practices for business analysis across multiple programmes.
• Scope and plan business analysis resources and effort across various projects.
• Balance priorities and demands with senior stakeholders to ensure business analysis activities are coordinated across complex programmes and projects.
• Manage resourcing requirements to meet portfolio demands, including recruitment as necessary.

Requirements Gathering

• Lead large and complex programmes to ensure deliverables are met, including managing business analysts’ workloads and planning.
• Coordinate requirements activities, validation, and sign-off, ensuring key stakeholder needs are effectively captured and aligned with business objectives.
• Approve relevant business case inputs and success criteria for projects.

Process Modelling

• Approve business process modelling and solutions to ensure alignment with organisational objectives.

Business Analysis

• Provide leadership and guidance on best practices, ways of working, and frameworks for business analysis.
• Ensure business analysts working within the programme adhere to professional standards and quality expectations.

Facilitation

• Collaborate with key stakeholders, service delivery managers, programme/project managers, business architects, users, change teams, and technical teams to identify, design, and implement efficient solutions.

Stakeholder Management and Engagement:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring a thorough understanding of their business areas and change initiatives.
• Foster networks and build cross-functional connections to support smooth project delivery.
• Manage and resolve issues related to the performance or capability of proposed solutions and their impact on service delivery.

Requirements:

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing individuals and teams.
• Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders, including CTO, CEO, and CIO level.
• Ability to break down complex problems, using a variety of inputs from your team, to develop necessary outputs such as wireframes, blueprints, SOPs, customer journey maps, and end-to-end process maps.
• Experience in the creation and evaluation of solution options and supporting the business case and options analysis.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with a proven track record of managing teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Confident in leading presentations and communicating with tact and diplomacy on sensitive issues.
• Experience leading business analyst teams across all areas of an operating model, with a balance of delegation and accountability.
• Understanding of the programme delivery lifecycle and relevant working models (e.g., pursuit, programme, performance).

What’s in it for You?

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to drive meaningful impact and shape the direction of a high-profile team working on significant pension projects.