Head of Business Analysis

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Head of Business Analysis

  • Location: Wellingborough
  • Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum per year
  • Job Type:Permanent

Posted over 2 years ago

Head of Business Analysis


Unique opportunity for a Head of Business Analysis to line manage and develop a team of 10 BAs at a prestigious banking and insurance client.
Benefitting from a hybrid homeworking model you will be joining at an exciting time as the business launches a number of large-scale IT change programmes.
You will ideally have 5 years in a lead business analyst or management position and will work closely with other business leaders to shape and define change and PMO processes.

Responsibilities
Manage and develop the business analysis capability within the Bank:
Line manage and develop a team of circa 10 BAs
Understand and manage demand and placement of business analyst resources across the change portfolio
Undertake recruitment as required
Work with the Head of Business and Change Management (BCM) and PM/PMO Leads to define, implement and mature processes for investment-planning
Provide brief feasibility studies and 'order of magnitude' estimates to enable investment decision-making
Change process and governance
Recruitment, line-management and personal development of Business Analysts

Experience
Experience of strategic analysis in the pre-project and initiation stages of projects, e.g. capability assessments, roadmaps, definition of TOMs
Extensive experience as a Lead/Senior Business Analyst on a variety of large-scale projects and change initiatives, e.g. new product launches, organisation re-designs, platform replacements, regulatory and mandatory change; and workstream leadership of business-analyst resources on projects/programmes.
BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis (essential)
Agile Product Owner qualification (essential)
Project Management qualification, e.g. Prince2, PMP, PMI, APM, at some point in the past, even if not currently re-certified (highly desirable)
Modules towards BCS Advanced International Diploma in Business Analysis (desirable)
Programme or Portfolio management qualifications (e.g MSP, MoP, PCM) (desirable)

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