Job Description

Leadership

• Lead the successful delivery of complex business analysis on projects through effective programme and stakeholder management.
• Develop and maintain a programme level plan, critical path and visibility of interdependencies between programmes for business analysis activities
• To own the delivery of the mapping of the As is and the To Be processes on major projects and programmes.

Financial Management

• To identify and monitor business benefits; financial and non-financial.
• Report to management on the benefits tracking.
• To train Business Analysts and Project Management staff on how to track and manage benefit realisation across projects and programmes.

Data Analysis and Management

• To provide Business Analysis expertise to assist in the delivery of projects across the IT & Digital Service Project and Programme Delivery programme.
• To work with the Programme leads to analyse the work relating to the delivery of the IT Capital Programme and associated workstreams.
• To act as the lead Business Analyst on programmes, including owning the delivery of the analysis and how it impacts/defines the projects and programmes.
• To collate, examine and validate the information required to design and develop the projects relating to the IT Capital Programme and associated workstreams.
• To act as the business analysis lead on programmes of work including the management of business analyst project resources.

Service and People Management

• To support individual projects, by acting as a 'critical friend’, gathering and completing Business requirements.
• To lead the required implementation of identified business activities as determined within the projects.
• Line manage Business Analyst roles within the team, including contract staff. Matrix managing resources within the project, ensuring their training, development and welfare needs are catered for and motivation is maintained. Where direct reports are being tasked by other project managers or the PMO, liaise with these to ensure that workloads and tasks allocated to their direct reports are appropriate and manageable.
• Provide pastoral support to resources within the IT Project and Programme team.
• Deputise for the Head of IT Projects and Programmes and Programme Leads where relevant

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience)
• Demonstrative experience in a similar role
• Relevant professional qualification or membership; Prince2, MSP, ITI