Expert analysis. Cross-functional collaboration. Resolving complex challenges.
Senior Business Analyst
£46,000 - £55,000 (+ Benefits)
Reports to: Lead Business Analyst
Department: Chief Operating Office
Contract: 12 month fixed‑term contract
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London. Office‑based with high flexibility (1‑2 days per week in the office)
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
External Closing date: 28 June 2026. Internal Closing date: 3 July 2026.
As a Senior Business Analyst you will be assigned to a technology portfolio to deliver large and complex technology and change projects, rotating across a range of products. You will accurately analyse, capture and validate requirements, identify and assess highly beneficial solutions, and provide analysis expertise to shape and deliver technical solutions and outcomes. You will partner and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels to ensure alignment with the charity’s technology needs and strategic direction.
If you have experience as a Business Analyst in medium to large multi‑product businesses with a large IT function, or within a large IT agency/consultancy, we would love for you to join our mission.
What will I be doing?
- Delivering large/complex projects within one of our product portfolios to develop innovative and flexible business solutions.
- Providing business analysis and delivering the technical transformation across several workstreams and products.
- Assessing the bigger picture to manage priorities and identify potential dependencies and risks.
- Forging 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.
- Developing a strong understanding of the needs of specific business areas and their strategy to influence decisions.
- Maintaining an understanding of the capabilities, processes and services that make up the Cancer Research UK technology landscape.
- Keeping aware of emerging technologies to ensure compatible solutions are designed and existing capabilities are re‑used where suitable.
- Assisting in the development of investment appraisals, providing decision support to ensure that solutions designed deliver maximum value to the charity.
- Collating, understanding and documenting business, functional and non‑functional requirements.
- Identifying strengths and weaknesses of existing processes, suggesting areas of improvement, and challenging as needed.
- Translating business requirements into Agile epics, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Ensuring requirements are documented appropriately for use by the project team (e.g. developers, testers) according to the project methodology used (e.g. Agile).
- Partnering with departments across the charity to ensure correlation between requirements, information architecture and user experience.
- Providing analysis expertise and leadership throughout project lifecycles.
- Contributing to the successful delivery of large/complex projects, developing practical ideas and solutions to deliver value to the business.
- Sharing expertise and best practices, contributing to analysis toolkits and supporting the business analyst community and business process owners.
- Inputting into test scenarios, scripts, design and execution by collaborating with customers and colleagues to ensure changes are appropriately tested and accepted.
- Where appropriate, creating relevant guidelines and user guides.
- Partnering 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/SLAs to monitor the effectiveness of processes and enable greater efficiency.
What skills will I need?
- Experienced Business Analyst who has worked in medium to large multi‑product businesses or within a large IT agency/consultancy.
- Managed multiple workstreams/products and priorities with a background in dealing with complexity and identifying potential dependencies and risks.
- Strong understanding and experience in business analysis skills, techniques and practices (including designing and facilitating workshops).
- Strong communication and stakeholder management with a proven ability to understand stakeholder needs and influence decision‑making at all levels within various contexts.
- Advanced experience in process and data modelling, and process improvement.
- Evidence of problem‑solving with an ability to simplify complex problems into components and evaluate systematically to provide creative solutions.
- Commercially minded with an understanding of what Cancer Research UK is trying to achieve and the role of Delivery teams in delivering these ambitions.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
What will I gain?
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high‑quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work‑life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.
You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.
Equal opportunities and diversity
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under‑represented.
We will support applicants who have a need for an adjustment during the application or interview process. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.
