Job Description

Lead Business Analyst \xe2\x80\x93 Inside IR35 Contract Term: End of April 2024 Contracting Authority: The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) Location: Remote Working (flexibility required for travel on an as and when basis) At the Health and Safety Executive, we believe everyone has the right to come home safe and well from their job. Our mission is to prevent work-related death, injury, and ill health. Our roots stretch back to 1833. The modern HSE is an independent regulator with a wide reach across many employment sectors. Using world leading science, we have helped protect millions of people from devasting injury and suffering through our diverse regulatory activities. We concentrate effort on the most serious risks, targeting industries with the greatest hazards, and sectors with the worst risk management record. We hold people to account where we have to, and we are firm but fair when using our legal powers. We also provide support to businesses through free guidance and advice tailored to business needs. By giving them the confidence to manage risks sensibly, we boost productivity, support the economy, and contribute to a fairer society. We work hard to help maintain an effective regulatory framework, playing our part in providing proportionate and accountable legal requirements. The world of work is always changing. We use science to understand these changes. And that understanding helps us all prepare for the workplaces of tomorrow...so Great Britain continues to be one of the safest and best places to work and do business. Job Purpose: The Business Analysis (BA) Lead is responsible for assisting in the Continuous Improvement of the BA Community of Practice ensuring the community is effective. The Lead BA will provide professional support, development, and lead on increasing maturity of the discipline. Looking also at the associated standardised delivery artefacts, and ensuring alignment with functional standards. The BA Lead will work with the Practice Leads to analyse current processes , looking for improvements and delivering new ways of working built on best practice and industry methodologies. They will identify capability needs, within the community, and support with upskilling across the BA cohort (including analysis, but also organisational development and design). The post holder may also be called upon to support BA delivery within a project/programme They will report directly to the Head of Change, in the Delivery workstream As a Lead Business Analyst your main responsibilities will be to:

• Lead the production of business analytics, including performance and productivity baselines, demand analysis, impact and feasibility analysis, scenario modeling, activity-based cost models and benefits tracking, working with colleagues where these activities meet specific specialisms, e.g. Benefits Manager
• Lead, mentor, coach and develop our team of Business Analysts and Change and Business Improvement Analysts. Helping to identity capability needs and support with upskilling the BA community.
• Drive the development of BA artefacts, required as part of successful project delivery, ensuring alignment with best practices, industry standard tools and techniques and HSE Delivery and Change Frameworks, to deliver and cohesive and comprehensive artefacts suite.
• Support and contribute to the BA elements of the functional standards action plan to enable successful delivery of projects/programmes.
• Collaborate with colleagues (e.g. operational teams, policy colleagues, digital programmes, customer insight, technology, etc.) and engage their specialisms in new ways of working, services and functions, which are efficient, effective and user focussed to deliver predictable and repeatable value.
• Define operational pilots, test scenarios etc. Analyse and report on test/pilot outcomes and results, adjusting proposed solutions as appropriate
• Build and manage productive and effective relationships with all stakeholders, from senior level, Executive Committee members, through to the End Users, who are the most impacted by the changes.
• Regular progress updates/reports to both Head of Change and Community of practice, ensuring a clear understanding and buy in to the work undertaken

You\xe2\x80\x99ll have:

• Recognised professional qualification in Business Analysis
• Proven track record in translating business requirements between End Users and the team delivering the change
• Practical knowledge of structured and analytical thinking, with the ability to interpret data and insights into improved processes and workflows.
• Proven track record of delivering service/performance improvements, efficiencies, and enhanced user experiences.
• Demonstrable experience of the principles of operational excellence and how to ensure new services and ways of working are successfully implemented and embedded.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring junior team members as part of improving skills and knowledge, resulting in consistency of standards and outputs.
• Excellent communication skills, including interpersonal skills.
• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Desirable criteria:

• Experience of working with data structures and an understanding of data mapping and data architecture.
• Experience of working within a regulatory or similarly complex environment.
• Experience of managing service delivery in an operational/transactional environment

If this Lead Business Analyst role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Michelle.floyd@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk Disability confident As a member of the disability confident scheme, HSE 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. If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk. We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview. Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know. 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. Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas. Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract Benefits:

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote