At Yorkshire Water we believe technology holds the key to making the most of this precious resource, and taking care of it, now and in the future. We have a five-year plan that will see us investing heavily in our Technology. Enabling us as a department to focus on our capabilities, increase our delivery and responsiveness for our customers and develop skilled technical and data experts.
We are now looking for a Lead Business Analyst to join us on this journey, and the key accountabilities associated with this role are as follows:
Key responsibilities:
- Takes full responsibility for business analysis within a significant segment of an organisation where the advice given, and decisions made will have a measurable impact on the efficiency of effectiveness of the organisation.
- Plans and leads scoping, requirements definition and priority setting for complex, strategic programmes.
- Facilitate business change within the organisation, drive business requirements analysis to produce requirements specifications to a level capable of being used to enable implementable change and/or I.T. solutions.
- Guides senior management towards accepting change brought about through process and organisational change.
- Probe and develop a deep understanding of business processes and business operating models.
- Identify opportunities to create an environment for delivering effective sustainable change.
- Liaise with various stakeholders to develop implementation plans, including business process change, organisational change, system, and behavioural change.
- Leads the selection of appropriate business analysis methods, tools, techniques, selecting appropriately from plan driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.
- Develops organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for requirements definition and management.
- Collect data and information from various sources and resolve conflicts by facilitating discussions between various stakeholders, including management teams.
- Ensure that I.T. delivers best value services and solutions.
- Drive the vision of I.T. services to meet the company vision, values, and objectives through a rounded understanding of business operations.
What skills are we looking for?
Essential:
- Experience in a team lead role within a business analysis environment coaching, developing and implementing career and succession plans.
- Creating a safe working environment and safety conscious culture.
- Experienced Business Analyst who has 3 plus years of experience working in waterfall and agile delivery models.
- Knowledge of application development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
- Has a broad business understanding and deep understanding of won specialism(s).
- Performs highly complex work activities covering technical, financial, and quality aspects.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, establishing root cause and underlying patterns.
- Initiates influential relationships with internal customers, suppliers and partners at senior management level, including industry leaders.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
Desirable:
- Experience of working within a large organisation that provides Utility services.
- Educated to degree level and or with appropriate professional qualification.
Although you will have a permanent, friendly office to inspire collaborative thinking, and there may be occasions when there is a business need to attend the office, we do offer flexible hybrid working arrangements. We appreciate that we all live busy lives and crave now more than ever a good work/life balance, so together we can discuss what this might look like for you as an individual.
25 days hols + 8 bank holidays + employer pension contributions up to 10% of salary. Wider benefits include discretionary bonus, private health care, life assurance, enhanced maternity, and adoption packages (note: some are non-contractual).
