About the role
Business analysts help teams deliver products and services that bring value to their users through:
- Identifying, exploring, and analysing business problems and objectives, and user needs
- Understanding the public sector domain, people, organisation, processes and technology
- Identifying areas for improvement and exploring feasibility of options
- Understanding any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications
Key responsibilities
- Delivery of good public services for users with clients, shown through relevant measures, for example, data, metrics, KPIs or the passing of service standards
- Personal performance aligned with DDaT and grade, evidenced through peer feedback
Skills, knowledge and expertise
Business analysis
- Apply structured approaches to complex problems and opportunities
- Analyse business goals, functions, and objectives to support definition of requirements
- Conduct options analysis and feasibility studies
- Ensure proposed solutions meet business requirements and user needs
- Understand the impact of potential changes and how business processes, systems, data, roles and responsibilities interact
- Analyse, design and prioritise business changes to improve business operations and services
Business process improvement
- Support the implementation of proposed business improvements
Business process testing
- Analyse and evaluate information with minimal supervision to support the design, execution and assessment of business process tests and usability evaluations within a project
Methods and tools
- Select and use the most appropriate tools and techniques to support the planning, analysis, development, testing, implementation and improvement of systems and services within a project
Requirements definition and management
- Identify, analyse, challenge and validate business and user requirements
- Use appropriate requirements management life cycle methods to complete tasks and outputs related to the project
- Tailor communication to stakeholders' needs and work with them to build relationships while meeting user needs
- Build and reach consensus with stakeholders
- Work to improve stakeholder relationships using evidence to explain decisions
Systems analysis
- Identify and analyse IT system capabilities
- Develop models and system requirements for bespoke IT systems or software packages, with minimal supervision
Testing
- Identify business scenarios and develop acceptance criteria to ensure requirements can be traced to develop functionality
- Review prototypes, tests plans and tests outcome reporting
User experience analysis
- Apply basic techniques to analyse, validate and prioritise user experience needs
- Present findings in an accessible and easy to understand way to support data‑informed decision making, based on user research
Take a look at the Benefits & Perks section of the Made Tech Handbook to see what we can offer you.
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