Business Analyst Team Leader
What’s in it for you?
• Opportunity to shape and lead a team to provide Business Analysis to enable the SRA’s Transformation Programme.
• Develop the Business Analysis team to be a centre of excellence within the SRA.
• Lead, coach and line manage a team of Business Analysts to achieve team and individual objectives.
• Be the key contact between business and technical/supplier teams.
• Opportunity to be part of the PMO Management Team.
The role
An exciting opportunity has arisen working in the Programme Management Office (PMO) within the SRA. We run projects and programmes and advise the business on how best to use our resources to meet its strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
As the Business Analyst Team Leader, you will line manage a number of Business Analysts, setting and tracking individual objectives as well as coaching your team members. As an accomplished Business Analyst, you will promote best practice methods and communicate clearly with your team to make sure daily tasks are prioritised.
Your team members will be working on projects within the context of a formal project delivery framework, it will be your responsibility to make sure the team delivers quality work on time and within budget. To make this happen you will use your already developed, strong stakeholder management skills to provide leadership and support to meet the requirements of the Programme and Projects.
This is a varied and challenging role; you could be facilitating workshops, carrying out monthly one to ones with reportees, providing expertise in the modelling/mapping of business processes, assessing requests for changes, capturing business requirements or planning the testing of a new IT system.
What we expect
• Line management experience; to get the best from your team
• Organisation and diplomacy, in sometimes challenging scenarios
• Strong delivery capability, to plan work and deliver workshops with stakeholders at all levels
• Excellent communication and diplomacy skills, including the ability to influence and persuade.
To apply for this role, please submit your CV and covering letter. Please ensure that your CV and covering letter clearly demonstrate how you meet the knowledge, skills and experience requirements of the role.
Previous applicants to this role in the last six months need not apply.
Essential
Several years experience as a Senior Business Analyst/Lead Business Analyst.
An in-depth understanding of, and extensive experience of working within, the BCS/ISEB Business Analysis Framework.
BCS Business Analysis - Foundation level or above, or equivalent experience.
Extensive experience in setting Process Modelling standards and training others in these.
Extensive knowledge and experience of Unified Modelling Language (UML) and Business Process Model and Notation(BPMN)
Excellent communication, interpersonal, team working and influencing skills.
Demonstrable experience of managing competing stakeholder priorities and interests and providing effective challenge.
Experienced in running workshops to define requirements and develop processes.
Experienced in process development and optimization
Extensive experience in managing stakeholders (internal and external to the team)
Knowledge of MS Office suite to intermediate level including MS Visio
Experienced in line management, coaching and mentoring.
The ability to forward plan as well as the ability to deal with several projects and stakeholders with competing deadlines and priorities
Collaborative role, needs to integrate and align plans with broad range of internal and external functions
Plans and organises own work
Experience of working within Waterfall and Agile projects
Desirable
BCS Business Analysis Practitioner level or above
Six Sigma qualification
MS Visio to advanced level
Experience in developing user stories.
Experience of JIRA
Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.
We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.
This opportunity is closed to applicants.