Business Analyst

Job Description

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £40,000 + depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Driving the execution of key operational information collection from multiple areas of business
• Process mapping to various levels of detail via standard toolsets
• Identifying key stakeholders and creating engagement packs with required question sets & collateral
• Work to target delivery dates and highlight potential blockers & issues where applicable
• Ability to drive discussions to understand the basic people, process, tools impacts within workshop discussions
• Planning and leading workshops with stakeholders at all levels for requirements, operational information and business process capture
• Work within the team to drive the creation of a centralised repository for collated information – with supporting process documentation where applicable
• Analysis of existing process documentation to highlight gaps and issue that require rework during workshop engagements
• Create project documentation for distribution & sign off
• Eliciting, analysing and documenting high level, user story and system requirements within an interview and workshop environment
• Reviewing of datasets to support the creation of business cases for future packages of work – specifically capacity, time in motion and downstream data impacts

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Demonstrable evidence of analysing, documenting, understanding and presenting information to multiple stakeholders
• Proven experience in capturing, documenting and presenting requirements, workshops – highlighting traceability & priority
• Experience of projects that operate across multiple areas and systems
• Process Capture & Analysis

Desirable:

• Knowledge of process mapping tools such as Signavio or Visio
• Involvement of projects that deal with 3rd party impacts and integrations with the core business processes
• Experience of projects with a regulatory or security focus

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Shared Services Transformation team:

A newly developing team within Shared Services with focus to identify, assess and solve problems across the organisation. The team provides an opportunity to get involved in major programmes developing in tandem with our sector customers with a view of bringing clear control and insights into what is currently a fast-moving environment. The Team itself is full of developing individuals with lots of opportunity for high stakeholder engagement and progressing abilities to fit the needs of the various programmes. You’ll be joining a function that’s been recognised, including recent award wins at The Lawyer Awards, the Legal Business Awards 2024 and shortlisted in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Europe Awards 2024.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 28th May 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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