Senior Business Analyst in Stratford-upon-Avon

The Business Analysis team bridges the gap between our technology department and the wider organisation, ensuring the effective use of technical resources and driving operational transformation. As a Senior Business Analyst you will be assigned to a technology portfolio to deliver large and complex technology and change projects, rotating across several product areas.

What will I be doing?

• Deliver large and complex projects within one of our product portfolios to develop innovative and flexible business solutions, whilst driving efficiencies and harnessing shared capabilities.
• Provide business analysis and deliver the technical transformation across several workstreams and products.
• Assess the big picture to manage priorities and identify potential dependencies and risks.
• Forge strong stakeholder relationships at all levels to identify and assess solutions and process improvements that meet business outcomes and provide the best cost/benefit balance.
• Develop a strong understanding of the needs of specific business areas and their strategy to influence decisions.
• Maintain an understanding of the capabilities, processes, and services that make up the Cancer Research UK technology landscape.
• Keep aware of emerging technologies to ensure compatible solutions are designed and existing capabilities are reused where suitable.
• Assist in the development of investment appraisals, providing decision support to ensure that designed solutions deliver maximum value to the charity.
• Collate, understand, and document business, functional, and non‑functional requirements.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of existing processes, suggest areas of improvement, and challenge as needed.
• Translate business requirements into Agile epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements are documented appropriately for use by the project team (e.g. developers, testers) according to the project methodology used (e.g. Agile).
• Partner with departments across the charity to ensure correlation between requirements, information architecture and user experience.
• Provide analysis expertise and leadership throughout project lifecycles.
• Contribute to the successful delivery of large and complex projects, developing practical ideas and solutions to deliver value to the business.
• Share expertise and best practices, contributing to analysis toolkits and supporting the business analyst community and business process owners.
• Input into test scenarios, scripts, design and execution by collaborating with customers and colleagues to ensure changes are appropriately tested and accepted.
• Partner closely with Project Managers and Business Owners to track progress against milestones, develop plans, prioritise work and create sufficient documentation for projects and work streams.
• Defining KPIs and SLAs to monitor the effectiveness of processes and enable greater efficiency.

Required skills and experience

• Experienced Business Analyst with a background in medium to large multi‑product businesses or within a large IT agency or consultancy.
• Managed multiple workstreams/products and priorities, dealing with complexity, dependencies and risks.
• Strong understanding and experience in business analysis skills, techniques and practices (including designing and facilitating workshops).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, with proven ability to understand stakeholder needs and influence decision‑making at all levels.
• Advanced experience in process and data modelling and process improvement.
• Evidenced problem‑solving ability, simplifying complex problems and evaluating systematically to provide creative solutions.
• Commercially minded with an understanding of Cancer Research UK’s objectives and the role of Delivery teams in achieving these ambitions.

Equal Opportunity

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under‑represented. We want every candidate to perform at their best throughout the job application, interview and work processes and will provide adjustments as needed.

Benefits

We offer a generous benefits package, opportunities for career and personal development, high‑quality tools and policies that support work‑life balance and personal wellbeing.