IT Business Analyst

Location: Gloucester (1-2 days onsite)
Contract: Inside IR35
Day rate: Up to £500 per day
Duration: End of 2024 (Will most likely extend)
Start date: Mid June (Due to the onboarding process)
Security/Clearance Required: Candidate will require SC Clearance but can start with BPSS, SC will be applied for once BPSS approved.

Our client, a major renewable energy company, specialising in wind power, solar power, nuclear power and battery storage technology, is looking for an experienced IT Business Analyst to join them on a contract basis.
You will be working with IT project teams and business clients to scope out the needs. The Business Analysts will collect, clarify, and translate business requirements into documentation and conceptual design (using appropriate tools and models) from which applications and solutions are developed.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Strong analytical skills applied to understanding business functionality and translating them into application requirements.
Provide insight and thought leadership to complex issues and problems, taking account of people, plant, process and technology considerations
Collaborate with Business Managers, Solution Architect and Project manager to develop a variety of viable solutions to support differing expenditure, benefit capture and risk appetite.
Identify the optimal solution options and the structure by which they will be delivered.
Develop the initial project concept, elaborating the primary business objectives, clarifying the scope and impacts of the proposed change, estimating project costs and identifying the initial risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies that affect the successful outcome of the project.
Collaborate with senior management and other key stakeholders to capture, evaluate and prioritise business requirements, ensuring that these are communicated and documented in a meaningful way which promotes insight and informed decision-making. Own and manage the requirements throughout the project life cycle.
Structure, plan and manage the business analysis work stream, ensuring adoption of best practise standards and quality assuring the developed analysis products (which may include process and people change elements)
Review solution designs, test strategy and business procedures to ensure consistency with the requirements and delivery of the identified benefits.
Provide leadership and direction through the development and implementation of the business change, promoting its benefits and galvanising commitment.
Support business acceptance of developed solutions, including process and system walk through and business acceptance testing.
Familiarity of software development methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.
Demonstrated experience in writing application requirements and test specifications.
Comfortable managing small scale projects to time and budget if required.
Be eligible for security clearance to SC level.