Business Analyst

Full time Fixed term (up to 12 months, starting from February 2026) Leek Wootton £48,894.00 - £54,879.00 Job Purpose Working within Warwickshire Police’s change programme and a small team of Business Analysts to: • Perform upfront analysis on a project to determine its feasibility and business benefit realisation. • Collaborate with project and business stakeholders at all levels to understand their problems / underlying issues and capture, define and agree business requirements, business process workflows, system and data requirements. • Help identify and articulate option for solutions that meet the business requirements. • Apply typical Business Analyst thinking and outputs to produce process maps, use cases, functional and non-functional requirements and other supporting documentation to enable change decision making. • Support Business Case development and work collaboratively with project and change management teams to ensure a project/task meets the stated business requirements and design. Main Responsibilities • Understanding business needs as they relate to a potential change and establishing required business outcomes to attain the support of key stakeholders for business proposals and sign off for business cases. • Gathering, identifying and documenting business requirements including through the facilitation of workshops and meetings. • Act as the conduit between the Change Programme and the business to ensure that the deliverables meet the requirements, including undertaking gap analysis and other industry methodologies/standard tools, along with identifying opportunities where new and existing technologies can be used to improve business efficiency and service performance. • Business process modelling and improvement to support a proposed change and to maximise efficiency, effectiveness, cost savings and value for money. • Recommend business functions and processes for investigation and analysis based on business knowledge and understanding of business performance. • Assess / recommend the feasibility of new and innovative approaches and/or technologies to solving business problems and addressing areas of poor performance or complex operational demands. • Creating functional and non-functional specifications / requirements for new systems and processes. • Facilitating communication between vendors or third parties and the force for a proposed change, identifying possible conflicts between the vendor/third party and user requirements in order to advise senior staff/officers. • Liaise with project personnel to ensure that the final deliverables of a task or project meet the stated business requirements and have been delivered and measured against original design specifications. • Identifying and quantifying business benefits and benefit realisation at the earliest point in projects/programmes, to maximise the return on investment, and assess the risk, cost and benefits of any change proposals. • Support user acceptance testing. • To undertake other duties commensurate with the nature, level of responsibility and grading of this post, as required. Person Specification Knowledge: • Business analysis recognised qualification (Level 5) such as BCS accreditation in Business Analysis, ISEB diploma in Business analysis or Business at Practitioner level or Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABoK). • Understanding of lean methodologies and principles. • Knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data quality and collaborative usage. • In depth knowledge of change management processes and transformation programme activities. Desirable • Analytical degree and knowledge of the police sector. Experience • Demonstrable experience of process mapping and process re-engineering. • Experience of translating business requirements into detailed functional design either using UML (Use-Cases, Activity/State Diagrams, Process Mapping, Work Shops). • Significant experience in requirements gathering and requirements elicitation and prioritisation with business stakeholders and the delivery team including functional, non-functional and technical requirements. • Workshop facilitation for both business and technical teams. • Demonstrable experience of a good organisational approach to work and prioritisation of activity. • Experience of conceptualisation and solution definition in line with target operating model. • Experience of designing testing of ICT systems/applications. • Experience of working with user stories and agile processes would be useful, as would a degree in IT, although this is not essential. Key Skills • Consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies. • Strong analytical skills, ability to understand problem domain and express complexity in clear terms to technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Translating technical issues and solutions to end users. • Stakeholder engagement and change management. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Excellent research and analysis skills with an innovative approach to problem solving and excellent decision-making capabilities. • Innovative, with problem solving and critical reasoning skills. • Actively seeks to find solutions to problems. • Strong interpersonal, leadership, influencing and negotiation skills. • Good presentation skills with the ability to work to deadlines and under pressure.