Senior Business Analyst Jobs

Location

Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester

About The Job

Job summary

About The Government Legal Department

From energy to security, health to human rights, we help the Government deliver life changing law for citizens.

The Government Legal Department is the largest provider of legal services across government, working on high profile matters that are frequently scrutinised in Parliament and the media. Our work includes:

• Securing our economic and trade relationships
• Providing legal advice on policies
• Providing the Civil Service’s employment law advice
• Ensuring value from commercial contracts worth billions of pounds
• Developing and drafting legislation

We are at the heart of delivering the Government’s priorities and our success depends on our people.

GLD is a non-ministerial government department, sponsored by the Attorney General. We are headed by the Treasury Solicitor, our Permanent Secretary and employ nearly 3000 people, including over 2000 legal professionals. Our offices include London, Leeds, Bristol, Croydon and Manchester as well as overseas. We provide specialist legal services including Litigation, Employment and Commercial Law as well as advising most Government Departments on the policies and services they deliver.

GLD also depends on a range of vital corporate services. These are essential to the smooth and efficient running of the Department and provide the foundation to enable GLD to deliver outstanding legal services. Our corporate functions include Strategy, HR, Finance, Digital, Data and Technology, Communications, Security, Commercial and Project delivery.

Our vision is to be an outstanding legal organisation and a brilliant place to work where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. This is an exciting time for GLD, with cutting edge legal work on global issues and a transformation agenda which is ensuring the Department exemplifies the Modern Civil Service.

To find out more about what we do visit the Government Legal Department’s webpage or have a look at this short film which showcases the breadth of work government lawyers and legal trainees are involved in.

About The Project Delivery Group

This is an exciting time for the Project Delivery Profession within GLD.

Big changes are happening under the newly appointed Deputy Director Head of Profession (Project Delivery). GLD is seeking to transform the way it coordinates investment in programmes and projects, along with making a step change in capability, to ensure successful delivery, and most significantly, benefits realisation.

The newly created Project Delivery team will ensure that GLD continues to innovate, build and professionalise legal services in order to achieve the GLD Vision.

This is a rare chance to join a new team, shape the future frameworks and make a true difference to a department that is keen to learn and develop its project delivery capabilities to build something great.

If you believe in the benefits of a diverse team with flexible working and developing yourself and others, then is the role for you!

Anne-Marie Blackburn -Head of Project Delivery and Assurance / Head of Project Delivery Profession

Anne-Marie says “Thanks for your interest in joining the Project Delivery team here at GLD. We are a centralised team of Project Delivery professionals, established to support the delivery of GLDs strategic change projects.

Primarily a legal department, we are looking for someone who can build relationships across multidisciplinary teams who have different levels of project delivery capability. Key to this role is the ability to facilitate, communicate and lead on defining processes - following business analysis standards - to deliver strategic outcomes.

I’m passionate about diversity and fully recognise having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, therefore I’m keen to build a diverse and inclusive work environment that brings a range of different viewpoints. Whatever stage you are at in your career, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status – if you fit the profile and this role springs an interest, then please get in touch.

The Senior Business Analyst is primarily responsible for establishing a new central function to understand and analyse user and business needs across the GLD Portfolio. The role will include recruiting and leading a team of Business Analysts and is the first step on the path towards developing a dedicated central business analysis and solution design function for GLD.

The role will involve working across a wide variety of projects to embed tried and tested frameworks and methodologies to ensure a standardised approach to business analysis.

You must be an experienced business analyst, confident leader, and self-starter with the ability to able to build a business analysis and solution design function from scratch.

Senior Business Analyst responsibilities include:

• Leadership – Lead and manage a team of BA’s and coach & mentor colleagues on Business Analyst competencies.
• Process modelling – Determine requirement for and develop, co-ordinate and agree sign-off of the ‘As-Is’ and To-Be’ business process work.
• Requirement gathering – Co-ordinate requirement activities, their validation and sign-off ensuring that the needs of the key stakeholders are articulated determining value based on the context.
• Facilitation – Liaise with business owners, senior lawyers, business users and technical teams to ensure business needs are translated into solutions.
• Business solution design – Co-ordinate changes to ensure business systems, workflows and processes contribute to target operating model.
• Impact analysis – Lead on ensuring that the potential consequences of a change are correctly identified that stakeholders have been identified and are part of the overall process and that benefits have been collated in response to the impact analysis.
• Gap analysis – Co-ordinate and lead on the evaluation of requirements against the present state (where we are) and the target state (where we want to be) and identify opportunities to develop successful business requirements as well as cultivate stakeholder relationships needed to make the transition.

Person specification

Behaviours

Below are details of the Success Profile that make up this role. You will be expected to provide evidence to show how you meet the criteria at interview stage.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the interview process:

• Working Together
• Changing & Improving (lead behaviour)
• Leadership
• Communicating & Influencing

Experience

You will need to demonstrate the following essential experience during the selection process on your CV as evidence of your suitability for the role:

• Experience of experience leading a team, using a broad range of analysis frameworks.
• Experience of engaging with stakeholders in a project environment to determine, develop and prioritise business requirements.

Technical

You will need to demonstrate the following essential technical skills during the selection process on your personal statement as evidence of your suitability for the role:

• Business solution design.
• Requirements gathering.
• Stakeholder engagement & collaboration.
• Process modelling / gap analysis.

The following technical qualifications are desirable:

• BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis
• APMG Agile Business Analysis Practitioner

Civil Service Code

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of you and other civil servants. These are based on the core values which are set out in legislation. As a civil servant, you are expected to carry out your role with dedication and a commitment to the Civil Service and its core values of:

• ‘integrity’ is putting the obligations of public service above your own personal interests
• ‘impartiality’ is acting solely according to the merits of the case and serving equally well governments of different political persuasions.
• Objectivity’ is basing your advice and decisions on rigorous analysis of the evidence
• These core values support good government and ensures the achievement of the highest possible standards in all that the Civil Service does.
• ‘honesty’ is being truthful and open

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Leadership
• Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £50,455, Government Legal Department contributes £13,622 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• An environment with flexible working options
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Application

An online CV template setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. The CV will be assessed and scored assessing experience.

• Experience of experience leading a team, using a broad range of analysis frameworks.
• Experience of engaging with stakeholders in a project environment to determine, develop and prioritise business requirements.

A Personal Statement maximum 750 words explaining how you consider your technical skills provide evidence of your suitability for the role.

• Requirements gathering.
• Stakeholder engagement & collaboration.
• Business solution design.
• Process modelling / gap analysis.

Selection Process

After the closing date, the appointing panel shall assess candidates’ suitability for the role based on evidence provided in their application against the experience and technical skills outlined in the person specification.

Interview

Should you be successful in being invited to interview on the day of the interview, you will be asked to give a short verbal presentation on a topic relevant to the role. The presentation will assess Changing & Improving.

You will be assessed on your performance in all essential criteria via scenario-based exercises and strength-based questions on the technical skills and the behaviours listed in the Personal Specification:

Essential Technical Skills

• Process modelling / gap analysis.
• Requirements gathering.
• Stakeholder engagement & collaboration.
• Business solution design.

Essential behaviours

• Working Together
• Communicating & Influencing
• Changing & Improving (lead behaviour)
• Leadership

Candidates invited to interview will be given further information on the day and time to prepare. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

Interviews will take place remotely via video conference, full details of the interview format will be provided to shortlisted candidates prior to interview. The timeline later in this pack indicates the date by which decisions are expected to be made, and all shortlisted candidates will be advised of the outcome as soon as possible thereafter.

Offer

Regardless of the outcome, we will notify all candidates as soon as possible after the final interview. We appoint in strict order of merit. If you meet the minimum criteria for this position but are not successful for a post, you will be placed on the reserve list for up to 6 months. We then may contact you to see if you are interested in a post at the same, or a lower grade, in GLD should one arise.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality Requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
• UK nationals
• Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• Nationals of the Republic of Ireland

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Email : [email protected]
• Name : Josephine Peiris

Recruitment team

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