Lead Business Analyst

• Generous salary plus excellent benefits
• Hybrid and flexible working

I am working with an innovative and well respected housing organisation, who are searching for a Lead Business Analyst to join their team.

• Actively engage with stakeholders across all levels of the organisation to understand challenges, uncover opportunities, gather requirements, and support option development.
• Lead and manage a team of Business Analysts, conducting regular one‑to‑ones, fostering a community of practice, and embedding peer review and best practice standards.
• Collaborate closely with the Head of Transformation to enhance and evolve the business analysis function, supporting the successful delivery of change initiatives.
• Oversee Business Analyst resource planning, ensuring capacity is forecasted, prioritised, and allocated effectively across projects.
• Continuously review and improve business processes and user journeys, driving optimisation and consistency in analysis outputs and documentation.
• Promote a benefits‑driven approach to analysis, equipping the team to define, assess, and track benefits across the change portfolio, including supporting cost‑benefit evaluations.
• Take ownership of the testing service within Business Change, ensuring Business Analysts are central to planning and executing testing phases, coordinating business‑led testing cycles, and maintaining high‑quality documentation.
• Ensure all solutions are thoroughly tested and validated prior to implementation, maintaining high standards of quality and alignment with business needs.

• Holds a degree in a relevant discipline or has equivalent professional experience.
• Possesses a recognised qualification in Business Analysis, such as the BCS International Diploma or IIBA CBAP®, or has comparable senior‑level experience.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing teams, including full line management responsibilities.
• Familiar with both agile and waterfall delivery approaches, and well‑versed in business analysis frameworks.
• Skilled in presenting project updates to senior stakeholders and governance boards.
• Strong communicator, able to translate complex concepts into clear, accessible language.
• Proficient in a range of analysis and testing techniques, including persona creation, journey mapping, requirements definition, benefit evaluation, impact assessments, pulse surveys, traceability matrices, and test planning.

• Salary range of is £55,552 - £58,414
• Hybrid working
• Pension scheme
• Plus many more excellent benefits