AMS PSR

On behalf of DWP, we are looking for a Senior Business Analyst (Inside IR35) for a 12 month contract which is a hybrid role so requires up to 3 days a week in the nearest DWP Hub - Manchester, Birmingham, Blackpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Glasgow or Pontypridd

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

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

• Manage stakeholder relationships at all levels across the business
• Work independently and collaboratively in fast paced environment
• Facilitate workshops and meetings with stakeholders to communicate proposed changes and gather feedback
• Provide user training to business stakeholders to ensure smooth adoption of new process and systems
• Develop the business analysis community by sharing best practice and mentoring others
• Use business process modelling tools such as BPMN or Visio and wireframes tools such as Balsamiq

Essential Skills

• Experience as a senior business analyst within a busy central government department
• Work with limited direction to identify opportunities to improve business performance within a defined project
• Ability to apply structured approaches to identify, investigate, analyse and communicate complex business problems and opportunities, within a defined project
• Evaluate business goals, objectives, functions and processes, using relevant information and data to support the definition of requirements
• Ability to identify business scenarios and develop acceptance criteria to ensure requirements can be traced to develop functionality
• Proficient across Agile, Waterfall and JIRA applications

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, DWP 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

DWP 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".