Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Business Analyst on an initial 6-month contract with potential to extend on a rate of £400/day inside IR35. This role will be a hybrid of home working and in the office.

Responsibilities:

- Plan and lead Business Analysis delivery, owning the challenge and driving through to successful conclusions
- Investigate Strategic and business needs and develop recommendations of process improvement and business solutions
- Support in producing business and digital solution materials, e.g. using business and user requirements to produce technical specifications, or business benefit analysis in support of business cases.
- Lead on communicating with stakeholders, clarifying needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of consequences while focusing on user and business needs.
- Develop or apply communication strategies to build relationships, using informal and formal channels to engage with stakeholders at all levels and resolving conflict where required.
- Identify and capitalise on improvement opportunities and identifying innovative ways to improve reporting and stakeholder engagement 
- Provide effective consultancy and advice to users and stakeholders.
- Using digital subject matter knowledge to investigate, and define operational needs, and identify potential options for enhanced outcomes.
- Supporting requirements-gathering for procurement exercise, developing business Cases.
- Analyse and understand business problems and opportunities
- Undertake research and analysis to understand how the business works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology
- Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures
- Identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and testing of services and business change
- Make decisions related to prioritisation and minimum viable product by using analysis-led insights
- Ensure new products and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals
- Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications
- Develop best practice
- Own stakeholder relationships

Essential Skills:

- Demonstrable experience of delivering business analysis across a range of projects, supporting the delivery of organisational visions and goals.
- Experience of using a broad range of business analysis tools and techniques to solve problems in complex governance environments.
- Experience in developing and implementing stakeholder management techniques to engage stakeholders, build relationships and understand needs to resolve conflict where required.
- Experience of working with a with a multi-disciplinary team, to design and develop process and technical solutions to resolve business problems.