Senior Business Analyst (Higher Education)
Location: Preston
Working Pattern: Hybrid
Salary: £43,000-£50,000 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Salt is recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst to join an established higher education institution, helping shape strategic change across the organisation.
Working within Learning and Information Services, you will translate business needs and strategic objectives into clearly defined proposals, robust business cases and measurable outcomes. This is an opportunity to influence investment decisions, improve services and help ensure proposed initiatives are achievable and aligned with organisational priorities.
The Role
You will lead analysis at the early stages of change, working with senior stakeholders to understand challenges, assess opportunities and define requirements. Collaborating with enterprise architects, project managers and operational teams, you will help take initiatives from initial discovery through to a clear, evidence-based proposal ready for delivery.
Key Responsibilities
. Lead the discovery, analysis and definition of business needs, opportunities and challenges to support strategic decision-making
. Shape new demand proposals, ensuring they are clearly defined, supported by evidence and aligned with organisational priorities
. Facilitate workshops, interviews and stakeholder discussions to capture, document and validate business requirements
. Produce business cases covering options appraisals, cost-benefit analysis, investment justifications, risks and recommendations
. Evaluate and challenge proposed solutions to ensure they address underlying business needs and deliver measurable value
. Work with enterprise architects and subject matter experts to align initiatives with architectural standards, technology roadmaps and strategic principles
. Develop current-state and future-state process models, operating models and capability assessments to support transformation
. Define and quantify expected benefits, supporting benefits realisation plans and performance measures
. Undertake market, industry and organisational research to identify opportunities for innovation and service improvement
. Assess the feasibility, impact, costs, risk...
Senior Business Analyst (Higher Education) in Preston employer: Salt
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