Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

£46,000 - £55,000 (+ Benefits)

Expert analysis. Cross-functional collaboration. Resolving complex challenges.

£46,000 - £55,000 (+ Benefits)

Reports to: Lead Business Analyst

Department: Chief Operating Office

Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Visa sponsorship: you must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact  as soon as possible.

Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews with a scenario-based exercise

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

Cancer Research UK has an extensive technical estate that underpins the charity’s ability to deliver our vision and strategy. The Business Analysis team play an essential role in our mission by bridging the gap between our technology department and the wider organisation. The team ensure we maximise the value of all our technical resources while delivering operational transformation & management and an employee experience that enables us to be an inclusive, well-governed, agile, and sustainable organisation so that we can achieve our mission of beating cancer.

This involves championing innovation, providing analytical insight, and driving change across a range of products and services used by 4,000+ staff, 600+ shops, and thousands of supporters who raised £463m towards our life‑saving research in 2023/24.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be assigned to a technology portfolio to deliver large/complex technology and change projects whilst rotating across a range of products. This will involve accurately analysing, capturing, and validating requirements; identifying and assessing highly beneficial solutions; and providing analysis expertise to successfully shape and deliver technical solutions and outcomes. You will partner and collaborate with stakeholders influencing across all levels of the organisation to ensure alignment with the underlying technology needs of the charity and its strategic direction.

If you are an experienced Business Analyst who has worked in medium to large multi-product businesses with a large IT function or within a large IT agency/consultancy, we would love for you to join our mission.

• Delivering large/ complex projects within one of our product portfolios to develop innovative and flexible business solutions, whilst driving efficiencies and harnessing shared capabilities.
• Providing business analysis and delivering the technical transformation across several work streams/ products.
• Assessing the bigger picture to manage priorities and identify potential dependencies and risks.
• Forging strong stakeholder relationships at all levels to identify and assess solutions and process improvements that meet business outcomes and provide the best cost/benefit balance.
• Developing a strong understanding of the needs of specific business areas and their strategy to influence decisions.
• Maintaining an understanding of the capabilities, processes, and services which make up the Cancer Research UK technology landscape.
• Keeping aware of emerging technologies to ensure compatible solutions are designed and existingcapabilities are re-used where suitable.
• Assisting in the development of investment appraisals, providing decision support to ensure that solutions designed deliver maximum value to the charity.
• Collating, understanding, and documenting business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Identifying strengths and weaknesses of existing processes,…