Senior Business Analyst

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The role

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Location: Farringdon

Salary: £57,981 - £61,032

Fixed-Term Full-Time Maternity Cover for one year.

As the Senior Technology Business Analyst, you will work alongside a cross-section of colleagues to lead and deliver high-profile and highly complex Projects across MTVH. Your role will be critical within the project teams and you will also act as a lead for smaller changes; understanding requirements, identifying solutions and leading the development, configuration, and functional analysis of various products. You will be expected to plan and facilitate workshops to understand and document business issues and requirements.

This will be a pivotal role within the IT Business System Team and will act as a key influencer with senior stakeholders to produce well-presented analytical insight. This will support appropriate and sometimes challenging decision-making.

What you'll need to succeed

• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modelling, verification, and methodology development
• Ability to interpret highly complex data, identify trends and provide insight. Knowledge of SQL to manipulate, transform & query data
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders and excellent workshop facilitation skills
• Self-starter, proven experience of working independently and ability to plan complex work delivery, within a broader project delivery timeline
• Thorough understanding and experience of project management and service improvement
• Previous experience in managing business change and specific work packages within large-scale projects
• Experience in carrying out functional analysis and production of technical specifications
• Ability to effectively document business analysis and evidence information.
• High level of direct and relatable business experience, or proof of ability to understand businesses in detail
• Able to exercise independent judgment and take the appropriate action with the ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks while under pressure
  Strong customer service orientation
• You may be working on multiple projects at any given time, therefore experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential
• Experience in repairs within a housing organisation

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we're doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.