Senior Business Analyst

Crown Estate Scotland has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis. By joining the Crown Estate Scotland team, you'll be surrounded by dedicated and talented individuals who are passionate about what they do, giving you the opportunity to learn and develop.

The successful candidate/s for this new role within the organisation will be responsible for:

• Leading organisational change associated with process and data improvements, including stakeholder engagement, behavioural change, and adoption of new ways of working.
• Driving measurable improvements in efficiency, data quality, and consistency through sustained adoption of new/improved processes across the organisation.
• Establishing proportionate process documentation to support governance, consistency and continuous improvement including process documentation & templates and a repository of processes documentation.
• Monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of implemented changes.
• Identifying and documenting existing formal and informal business processes, procedures and other activities to support adoption, governance and continuous improvement.
• Analysing and prioritising opportunities to improve business efficiency and data accuracy/completeness to support effective adoption across the organisation.
• Designing and leading the deployment of improvements/replacements to business processes including appropriate levels of governance to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency.
• Creating Business cases where necessary for changes to gather appropriate level of support for proposed changes.
• Collaborating on the development and deployment of any automations to support the new processes being embedded across teams and support adoption of new ways of working.
• Managing stakeholders from initial requirements gathering to training on updated processes.
• Providing guidance and recommendations at all levels to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness and supporting a culture of continuous improvement.

The contractual working location of this role is our Edinburgh office. However, we believe work is something you do, not a place you go to, and we are committed to supporting employees to work flexibly and in a way that suits their role and preferences.

The starting salary will be £50,521 with potential for future progression as well as eligibility of annual cost of living rises. The maximum salary for this role is currently £58,653. The role also benefits from 25 days' annual leave, increasing to 30 days after four years' service, plus 11.5 of public/privilege days. Crown Estate Scotland encourage flexible working and operate a discretionary flexi-time scheme. This role offers participation in the Civil Service pension scheme.

At Crown Estate Scotland we believe that continuous learning and development helps us to do our best in work and build professional skills and expertise. We offer a range of training opportunities delivered by external training providers and in-house experts and provide all employees with access to LinkedIn Learning. We also support individuals to pay professional membership fees relevant to their roles and aim to support additional study and learning requests wherever possible.

As well as helping you to develop professionally, we also support your personal development through our 'Wellbeing Matters' programme with its focus on four important pillars of wellbeing - physical, emotional, social, and financial.

You should have:

• A relevant degree and experience in areas which may include but are not limited to; Business, IT, Property Management, other disciplines aligned to CES operational areas.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft tools.
• High degree of IT & Data literacy.
• The ability to lead and embed change in practice.
• The ability to lead and embed business process and data.

You will have the following qualities, which are key to success in this role:

• Strong communication skills.
• Able to influence and negotiate effectively with stakeholders.
• Able to collaborate effectively across the organisation.

We manage property - including buildings, land, coastline and seabed - on behalf of people of Scotland. Our purpose is to invest in property, natural resources and people to generate lasting value for Scotland. Our profits go to Scottish public spending.

We work in a way that:

• Generates prosperity and value for all of Scotland;
• Supports the growth of sustainable business and industry in Scottish seas and on the coast;
• Makes places better for those who live, work and visit there;
• Promotes sustainable ways of producing energy, food, and other products;
• Creates opportunities for people to use and benefit from the Scottish Crown Estate.

Our values of Integrity, Excellence, Collaboration and Commercialism help us to put our purpose into practice. They shape how we work, underpin our actions, and help to make Crown Estate Scotland a great place to work.

Crown Estate Scotland is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we encourage applications from people from all backgrounds. We want to ensure every candidate has a positive experience and can most effectively demonstrate their suitability for the role they are applying for. Please tell us if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to help you in your application or with our recruitment and selection process.

We welcome requests to work on a job share basis.

The benefits include competitive salaries, access to the Civil Service pension scheme, wellbeing and employee assistance, team-working based on friendliness and respect, flexible, family-friendly policies, and generous annual leave and public holiday entitlement.