Principal Business Analyst

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Job Title: Principal Business Analyst
Starting Salary: £52,138 progressing to £57,652 pa
Hours: 37
Location: Stevenage - hybrid working opportunties available and travel across the county required
Contract Type: Fixed Term or Secondment for 2 years
Directorate: Resources

About the team

Are you an experienced and senior business analysis specialist, passionate about driving improvement and change to deliver business efficiencies? This is an exciting opportunity to join our team of business analysis experts, enabling organisation-wide changes by marrying analysis and creativity to drive efficiency and ensure best use of technology and application solutions.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to understand business strategy, aims and requirements; and suggest/uncover IT solutions and business practices that align to the Council's processes and direction of travel.

You will be responsible for analysing and documenting business processes, presenting options analyses and driving necessary change across an organisational-wide programme of work.
In the context set out above, main areas of responsibility include:

• Understanding the organisations' business strategy, across all services, to provide clear definition of business requirements, and translation of those to technology and software development requirements
• Defining and refining business processes, to ensure optimum efficiency
• Understanding capabilities of technology and software that support, or could potentially support efficient business processes
• Establishing credible, professional relationships with stakeholders across the organisation, at all levels
• Providing specialist challenge to the design of systems and processes
• Knowledge of automation and how to include in process improvement analysis

The Business Analysis Team are supporting an organisation-wide transformation programme, focused on maintaining quality service provision by the most efficient means. In this role, you will be leading projects concerning our key line of business processes and applications, across the whole organisation. The scope and nature of our involvement will be sculpted by the business requirement. Imperative across all projects is building rapport at all responsibility levels to ensure full understanding of business needs; and influence decision-making that is most effective.

About you

Essential:

• Significant senior-level experience in business analysis and/or application support, business improvement or change management
• Good understanding of existing tech and delivering efficiencies
• Knowledge and experience of delivering organisation-wide IT and business change
• Modelling to produce rich/informative images to enable informed decision making

Desirable:

• Understanding of Council policies, structure and service-provision; as well as political structures and decision-making processes
• High level logical reasoning and analytical abilities, capable of breaking down and understanding multifaceted and complex issues
• Ability to negotiate with and influence stakeholders in complex and challenging situations

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is within the Corporate Services, level 13 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Corporate services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Theresa.Whitfield@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: 31st March and 1st April 2025

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Secondment
This position is open to secondments. If you work for HCC or any other Local Authority and would like to be considered as a Secondment contract, please ensure you complete the Secondment Form as part of your application. If you do not, your application will be considered as a Fixed Term Contract only.

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.