Business Analysts

Business Analysts, Portishead Bristol, up to £32259 pa, 12 month FTC, highly likely to go permanent.

Business Analysts, up to £32259 pa

Your new company

Hays Bristol is proud to be recruiting exclusively with our leading police force which is made up of over 5,000 warranted Police Officers and staff and is supported by a range of volunteers providing vital services to the community. The organisation's mission is to serve, protect and respect. This is an opportunity to contribute to the force vision to deliver "Outstanding policing for everyone" with key values - caring, courageous, inclusive and learning. This is an exciting opportunity to work for a public-sector organisation that is delivering large scale transformational change to achieve its vision of becoming an outstanding Police Force. The impressive headquarters offer a superb working environment, great team ethos and full range of benefits. This is a force which is proud to be focused on diversity and inclusion and committed to the principles of equal opportunity.

Your new role
This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and motivated Business Analysts to help guide and support the Constabulary portfolio of improvement and change. The portfolio currently includes a range of improvement activity, projects and programmes aligned with the organisations four key strategies: Service, People, Infrastructure and Digital. You will need to be able to understand complex business problems and apply strong analytical skills to indent potential solutions. You'll be providing business analysis expertise and support to programmes, projects and the wider organisation as directed.

You'll be supporting the project/programme team with the creation and maintenance of standard project/programme documentation as required under the direction of the Project/Programme Manager. The person in this role will lead, chair and facilitate workshops and meetings, preparing and delivering presentations and other communication and engagement activity as required. In this pivotal post, you'll be supporting the business change aspect of the project/programme contributing to business readiness/change impact assessments and planning training/awareness and communications activity to ensure the change is effectively embedded. It will require general analytical support including analysis of a range of different types of data and information, benefits identification, monitoring and tracking.

What you'll need to succeed
We are looking for experienced Business Analysts who are qualified to degree level in a relevant subject or have significant previous equivalent experience of business analysis activity in a large and complex organisation. You will be able to confidently identify, document and verify business needs, and work effectively with both quantitative and qualitative data. You will be required to continually identify opportunities for improvement. This may include modelling different scenarios and analysing impact of change. You will be able to design and facilitate workshops that seek to define and prioritise requirements in line with business needs. Business Analysts for this opportunity will need to demonstrate a high degree of proficiency in relation to information technology.

We're looking for well-practiced knowledge in business process improvement/re-engineering including analysing and documenting processes using a range of tools and software. PRINCE 2 project management methodology and/or similar industry standards (such as Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), Agile, etc), is advantageous. The successful candidate will possess both technical expertise with an innovative, communicative and collaborative approach to every problem.

What you'll get in return

This critically important organisation has a full range of competitive benefits including pension, generous annual leave, health and well-being support, travel to work scheme, support associations and network as well as an impressive training plan and career development opportunities.

In addition, you'll have a supportive team and line Manager coupled with a great working environment.

Based at the impressive facilities in Portishead - including onsite branded coffee shop, food outlet, secure parking. on-site gym and surrounding nature walks.

What you need to do now
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