Hybrid Business Analyst – 6m FTC Pro rata

at Rail Delivery Group

• Job title: Business Analyst – 6m FTC Pro rata
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £57,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Business Analyst for Rail Delivery Group focusing on accessibility journey planner development. Involves requirements gathering, data analysis, and stakeholder engagement in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Understanding and clearly defining the scope of change and procurement initiatives
• Working with customer, technical and other teams as required to understand detailed wants and needs, identifying and articulating solution options, rules, benefits and risks
• Elaborating high level requirements from internal and external stakeholders into detailed functional and non-functional requirements that can be used in procurement documentation
• Undertaking data analysis and investigation in support of the developing the requirements
• Eliciting testing and service management requirements
• Managing the prioritisation of requirements
• Coordinating and inputting into the procurement evaluation process, evaluating suppliers’ proposals and capability to meet the requirements, either from existing solutions or from new developments
• Reviewing technical designs to ensure the proposed solution meets requirements and rail industry standards
• Supporting the development and review of commercial agreements and contracts ensuring that
• Defining acceptance criteria, ensuring that the supplier builds to specification and achieves both those criteria and the project’s goals
• Contributing to and ensuring that all business analysis deliverables align with the BA Practice community and standards

Requirements

• Requirements gathering and documentation
• Experience of procurement processes and deliverables (e.g. RFI, RFP)
• Data analysis skills to investigate and identify needs and requirements (e.g. Excel/SQL)
• Minimum of 5 years working as a business analyst or in a closely related area in a professional environment
• Knowledge of web analytics (e.g. Google Analytics) is beneficial
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience and knowledge of analysis activities across the full project development lifecycle
• Experience of documenting requirements using use cases, user stories and other techniques
• System and business process modelling and re-engineering
• Collaboration and facilitation skills to work effectively with a broad range of both internal and external stakeholders
• Experience of running workshops and posing the right questions to gather requirements and challenge design details and assumptions
• Attention to detail, enabling issues to be identified, coupled with thoroughness and a determination to resolve them
• Ability to produce excellent quality written documentation to support your work, report on findings and present to stakeholders when required
• Proactive and delivery focussed
• Strong communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Ability to balance customer, project, and development needs for a particular project delivery, escalating any conflict at appropriate times
• Exposure to and understanding of agile and traditional project management frameworks
• Experience of modelling tools such as Visio is desirable
• Professional business analysis certifications (IIBA, BCS etc) are welcomed.

Benefits

• 75% off rail travel for personal and family use, plus international rail discounts.
• 30 Days annual leave (plus buy/sell options and additional leave for key life events)
• Season ticket loan for commuting costs.
• Enhanced family leave – 30 weeks full pay for maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and shared parental leave.
• Pension scheme – up to 11.58% employer contribution.
• Private medical insurance (Vitality PPP) including mental health and specialist care.
• Discounted gym membership and access to wellbeing programmes.