IT Business Analysis - FTC
Role Overview
Northern Trains is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support business and technology transformation across the organisation.
The role analyses business needs, processes, and requirements and works with stakeholders and technology teams to define solutions with measurable business outcomes.
The role helps move stakeholders from current ways of working to improved future-state processes, capabilities, and solutions.
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Role overview
Northern Trains is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support business and technology transformation across the organisation.
The role analyses business needs, processes, and requirements and works with stakeholders and technology teams to define solutions with measurable business outcomes.
The role helps move stakeholders from current ways of working to improved future-state processes, capabilities, and solutions.
Salary and contract
- The stated salary is £56,925.
- The contract is fixed term until December 2027.
Workplace and schedule
- The role type is hybrid.
- The listed locations are Manchester, Leeds, or York.
- The schedule is Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week.
Business analysis delivery
- Lead Business Analysis across projects, programmes, and transformation initiatives.
- Elicit and document functional and non-functional requirements and map As-Is and To-Be processes.
- Develop business cases, requirements, use cases, epics, user stories, and other BA artefacts.
- Ensure requirements are traceable through solutions and delivered outcomes and support project initiation.
- Identify business impacts, risks, dependencies, improvement opportunities, and expected benefits.
Transformation and stakeholders
- Define future-state processes, analyse change impacts across people, process, technology, and data, and support adoption of new operating models.
- Work with business stakeholders, Project Managers, Solution Architects, IT teams, third-party providers, and the Head of Business Analysis.
- Engage and influence stakeholders and connect transformation activity to measurable business benefits.
Essential experience and qualifications
- Experience in a Business Analyst or similar role and demonstrable experience of business transformation and change are essential.
- Experience in complex business and technology environments, requirements elicitation, process analysis, As-Is and To-Be processes, and business cases is required.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills are required.
- A Level and/or degree education is required.
- A BCS, IIBA, or equivalent Business Analysis qualification, or significant equivalent experience, is required.
Desirable experience
- Experience of digital or technology-enabled transformation is desirable.
- Experience using data and insight to support business decisions is desirable.
- Agile, project management, change, or transformation experience is desirable.
Success measures
Projects and transformation initiatives should deliver intended business outcomes and clearly documented requirements and processes.
Solutions should address business needs, improve processes and ways of working, and maintain stakeholder confidence throughout change.
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