Senior Business Analyst

The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a new shared corporate service, launched in July 2023. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT). Our team of just over 300 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field.

We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will explore ideas for change, suggesting solutions and guiding them through to completion.

• Investigate reported issues, determine their root causes and impact, and advocate for valuable change.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, users, and agile teams to prioritise and deliver user-centric transformations, considering policy constraints.
• Utilise your technical expertise to define requirements, create models for shared understanding, and make evidence-based decisions for impactful solutions.
• Mentor junior team members, empowering them with skills and knowledge for success, and foster a culture of continuous improvement by sharing your expertise within our collaborative community.

The above responsibilities are not exhaustive, and the post holders may be required to undertake some additional tasks not listed above, within the remit of their grade, to support the team. As a line manager, you will be responsible for working with your members of staff to define their objectives, as well as managing their development and performance.

We would love to hear from you if you have experience in:

• Investigating, analysing, and solving problems, and making evidence-based decisions in a Business Analyst context.
• Identifying stakeholders and determining the level of engagement required for successful collaboration.
• Capturing evidence-based user needs and translating them into functional and non-functional requirements.
• Modelling business and data views (existing, conceptual, and proposed) to support common understanding.
• Leading and mentoring other Business Analysts to ensure delivery of high-quality services.
• Identifying opportunities for process improvement, automation, or alternative approaches to business activities.

The below experience would be beneficial but not essential as we will provide necessary training:

• Delivering change in a collaborative team using agile principles.
• Managing requirements to promote re-use and adaptability.
• Using business architecture to inform your analysis.
• Defining the approach, timescale and resources needed to deliver a specific piece of work.

It is unusual that all candidates will meet all the desirable criteria. If your skills and experience look slightly different from what we have identified and you think you can bring value to the Business Analyst role and the team, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Behaviours we will assess you against during the selection process include: Communicating and Influencing, Developing Self and Others.

Technical skills we will assess you against during the selection process include: Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements, Business process improvement, Stakeholder relationship management.

Alongside your salary of £42,385, the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £12,278 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home-based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.