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On behalf of Innovate UK, we are looking for a Digital Business Analyst (Inside IR35) for a 4 month (until 31st March 2025) - Likely extension contract based REMOTELY.

Description:

Job Purpose:

Innovate UK’s Business System and Insight team deliver technical change to Innovate UK through enabling technology solutions, automated workflows, and consolidated processes. The role of the Business Analyst will be to support the delivery of this change by working closely with colleagues and stakeholders across the organisation, as well as others in the Business System and Insight Team, project teams, IT and project sponsors/SROs.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• To work across the business to support those who have identified opportunities for improvement, working to define, document and prioritise digital solution(s) as well as supporting GDS solutions for external users.
• To perform feasibility analysis, scope projects, and work with stakeholders to prioritise requirements and/or user stories
• To deliver process improvements into the business, typically using a continuous improvement methodology
• To translate business problems into process or system requirements
• To bridge between the business and IT roles such as Technical Architect
• To create detailed Business Requirement Documentation
• To support the development of business cases
• To research best practice and share it with the team and translate it into day to day practice
• To deputise for the Product Owner when needed.

This is an outline description of the key responsibilities and accountabilities involved in the job. This is not an exhaustive list and the post-holder might be expected to undertake any other duties across the wider directorate, commensurate with the level of responsibility of this post, for which the post holder has the necessary experience and/or training.

Experience:

Essential 

• Salesforce experience (Minimum 3 years)
• Proven technical analyst experience
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders at the early stages of projects i.e. prior to confirmation of project budget or delivery approach
• Confident in the entire Software Development Lifecycle
• Experience of working with qualitative and quantitative data; analysing scenarios and investigating the impact of changes
• Experience with dev-ops tools (JIRA, Confluence)

Desirable 

• Salesforce Certified Administrator (ADM201)
• Salesforce Certified Business Analyst
• Experience specifying, designing or configuring digital solutions
• Experience of solution design

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong task planning and delivery skills
• Care, accuracy and attention to detail
• Self-awareness
• High levels of professionalism ‘self-starter’ with strong motivation to succeed
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a can-do approach
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to clearly communicate Salesforce capabilities and limitations

Competencies:

As with all roles at Innovate UK applicants will need to demonstrate compatibility with and capability against our Core Competencies:

Thinking and Problem Solving – Stakeholder management – Communication skills – Influencing – Self-awareness/self-management – Strategic awareness – Working with others– Project management

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.

DE&I Commitment

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.

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 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".