Senior Business Consultant – Business Analyst in London

Join Sopra Steria Limited and make a real impact! Exciting chance to work in our Aerospace, Defence, and Security (ADS) Consulting unit as a Junior Consulting Business Analyst. Collaborate with a purposeful team on projects spanning critical national infrastructure, government, and secure sectors. Career growth, UK-wide work locations, customisable benefits, and training opportunities provided.

What you'll be doing:

• Conduct analysis of business problems, user needs, and improvement opportunities.
• Elicit, document, and guide business and user requirements.
• Support feasibility studies, options analysis, and argument development.
• Map and improve business processes and workflows.
• Collaborate with collaborators at all levels, including end users and senior decision-makers.
• Contribute to data analysis to support project insights and recommendations.

What you'll bring:

• Current MOD DV clearance (Developed Vetting) – required to start.
• Proven experience in defence, aerospace, or secure government environments.
• Experience in a consulting role (internal or external).
• Strong understanding of business analysis techniques and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid).
• Ability to communicate complex information simply and clearly.
• Excellent collaborator engagement skills, including at senior levels.

It would be great if you had:

• Qualifications such as BCS Foundation Certificate, BCS Diploma, or PRINCE2 Practitioner.
• Experience in writing or contributing to arguments.
• Familiarity with frameworks like P3M3 or TOGAF.
• Exposure to tools like JIRA, Confluence, or Visio.
• Experience supporting bids or proposals.
• Professional consulting accreditation.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: United Kingdom
Security Clearance Level: MOD DV
Salary: £50,000 - £70,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase more days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.
Flexible work arrangements available to support work/life balance and boost motivation and efficiency.

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets. We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.