Lead Business Analyst

Lead Business Analyst - Pensions

Fully Remote

Paying up to £80,000.

You will be responsible for leading the business analysis team resources, budgets and timelines, ensuring that the team is able to deliver on its commitment in the delivery of high-quality analysis and insights to support the organisation's strategic objectives.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leadership - Performance management and leadership of 70 Business Analysis project teams with 8 Senior BA direct reports, ensuring high performance and that targets are achieved whilst ensuring BA standards/framework/quality are maintained. Responsible for overseeing the development of business analysts and their career development.
• Resources - Develop and implement best practices for business analysis across the programme. Scoping and planning the Business Analysis resource and effort across the programme / project. Balance priorities and demands with Senior stakeholders to coordinate Business Analysis activity across complex projects / programmes. Resourcing of the team to meet portfolio demands inc. recruitment etc
• Requirements Gathering - Leading large/complex programmes to ensure deliverables are met, which includes leading BAs on those specific ones workload/planning etc. Co-ordinate requirement activities, their validation and sign-off ensuring that the needs of the key stakeholders are articulated determining the need and value of performing the activity based on the context. Approval of relevant inputs to business cases and success criteria of projects.
• Business Analysis - Providing leadership around business analysis best practice, ways of working and frameworks ensuring all Business Analysts working within the programme deliver the professional standards expected. Accountable for the adherence by the Business Analyst team to the programmes quality standards to achieve best practice.
• Facilitation - Liaise with key client stakeholders, service delivery managers, programme / project managers, business architects, users, change and technical teams to identify, design and support the implementation of efficient and effective solutions.
• Stakeholder Management and Engagement - Partner with key stakeholders to maintain a thorough understanding of their business areas and change programmes. Build relationship across functional departments and build networks of established connections. Manage and resolve any issues raised around the performance or capability of proposed solutions and their impact on service delivery.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing individuals and teams. Ability to engage at CTO, CEO, CIO level
• Proven BA leadership skills within the pensions sector
• Ability to break down complex and critical problems, using a variety of inputs from across their team and by developing necessary outputs (e.g., wireframes, blue-prints, standard operating procedures, customer journey maps, end to end process maps, etc.)
• The creation / evaluation of solution options and supporting the options analysis and business case.
• Can lead presentations confidently and effectively communicating with tact and diplomacy on sensitive issues.
• Are comfortable leading business analyst teams across all areas of an operating model, delegating responsibility but retaining accountability.
• Understanding of the programme delivery life cycle and the IPT working model (pursuit, programme, and performance)