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On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Business Analyst Inside IR35 for a 6 months contract based REMOTELY with occasional travel to Swindon 

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.

UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers’ money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields – from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.

As a Business Analyst, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Gather, document and validate the business and user requirements relating to the pre award application processing needs across the research councils
• Be responsible for refining As-is and To-be processes to support the discovery and design of the new solution, and playing back all findings to the wider team.
• be responsible for creating and supporting the refinement of the user stories and tasks as part of the agile delivery process and be on hand to support the team in understanding the requirements throughout development
• Support with peer review testing and sign off.

Essential:

• Proven ability to identify and specify business and service improvement opportunities, translating both user and business needs into effective change requirements.
• Strong experience delivering processes and solutions using Salesforce or similar low‑code platforms within agile, multi‑disciplinary digital teams.
• Skilled in defining and documenting user‑centred requirements (including user stories) to support successful software delivery.
• Experienced in managing senior stakeholders and aligning diverse perspectives to enable impactful, organisation‑wide improvements.

Desirable:

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant 

UKRI guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".