Cyber Security Business Analyst

This Cyber Security Business Analyst will report to the Cyber Security Portfolio Lead and will work within Strategy Regulation and Support Services based in our London office. You will be a permanent employee. You will attract a salary of up to £60,000.00 dependant on skills, qualifications and experience and a bonus of 7.5%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

We also provide the following additional benefits:

• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

JOB PURPOSE: You will sit within the Cyber Portfolio Team with a primary focus of supporting our cyber projects. As a Cyber Security Business Analyst you will try to not only understand the cause of a business or end-user problem/opportunity, but to understand the drivers, asking the right questions at the right time. You will be a critical friend, collaborating with and helping partners make informed decisions based on sound analysis. You will translate the business's needs to provide the best value outcome for UK Power Network, ensuring alignment to strategic and tactical aims. You will help develop, and work within the Business Analysis Service Framework to deliver a range of services that support the business in cyber enabled change. This will help us maintain and progress our security posture. You will also be encouraged to help support the progression of the Business Analysis Service, be a promoter for it, encourage new relationships to build and grow its use and suggest new ways of working to ensure it remains aligned to our needs.

DIMENSIONS: UK Power Networks is working to uplift our defences against cyber-attacks and increase our cyber security posture with ongoing continuous improvement, building our capabilities within UK Power Networks. You will support the Cyber Security Projects Manager and/or the PMO Manager in developing and delivering a range of services supporting the business to ensure we undertake analysis to understand how a department works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology to support the continuous improvement of our cyber posture.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Undertake analysis to understand how a department works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology
• Identify and elaborate user needs to allow design, development and business change
• Ensure new solutions and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals
• Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the possible effects
• Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures
• Improve your own knowledge of business analysis, methods and tools and play an active role within the BA practice and wider community in sharing knowledge and supporting other members

Experience and EDUCATION:

• Business analysis: You can apply structured approaches to identify, investigate, analyse and communicate complex business problems and opportunities, within a defined project. You can analyse our goals, functions, and processes, using relevant data to help define requirements. You can conduct options analysis, assess feasibility and operational impact, quantify potential business benefits, and contribute to business case development. You can help to ensure proposed solutions meet business and user needs. You can complete tasks and define outputs linked to the project.
• Requirements definition and management: You can identify, analyse, challenge, and validate business and user requirements. You can co-ordinate and review the prioritisation of requirements. You can use appropriate requirements management life cycle methods to complete tasks and outputs related to the project.
• Stakeholder relationship management: You can identify, analyse, manage, and monitor relationships with and between all partners. Communicate with team members regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts while focusing on user and business needs.
• Business modelling: You can model several elements of the business. You can understand the effect of potential changes and how business processes, systems, structures, data and roles and responsibilities work with one another.
• Business process improvement: You can work with limited direction to identify opportunities to improve our performance within a defined project. You can lead the analysis, identification, design, prioritisation and implementation of process and business changes to improve business operations and services. You can help implement proposed business improvements.
• Experience of collaborative working: You can work collaboratively alongside colleagues in a diverse team. You can empathise and be considerate of colleagues' needs while at the same time understand and be clear on your own needs to complete a task.
• Experience supporting the delivery of transformational cyber security projects
• Experience working within a regulated environment, preferably Energy sector Critical National Infrastructure (CNI)

Qualifications: The below qualifications would be desirable:

• BCS Diploma in Business Analysis
• IIBA Certified Business Analysis Practitioner
• PMI Professional in Business Analysis

Health & Safety Responsibilities: Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment. Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.