Business Analyst
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Job Title: Business Analyst
Salary: £51,840 to £56,549 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £51,840 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £56,549 will be via incremental progression.
Location: Hammersmith, Kensington, Bow
Policing London is a hugely complex challenge that evolves every day. To tackle it, we’re constantly developing new and innovative IT. As a Business Analyst, you’ll help to deliver the best possible tech to meet the Met’s needs. Play your part in protecting eight million people and a vast, vibrant city.
As part of our Business Engagement Team, you’ll help us decide which tech projects to prioritise and take into delivery. The key is to produce concise and informative documentation so the Digital Policing team can make informed decisions.
You’ll start by translating business needs into technical capabilities – establishing requirements, business benefits and use cases, functional specifications and designs, and solution options. Later, you’ll organise Unit Acceptance Testing (UAT) for successful project delivery.
We’re looking for a skilled Business Analyst, with practical experience of delivering varied pieces of work. You’ll be used to business process modelling, producing business papers, and creating functional and non-functional requirements. Ideally, you’ve used the Treasury Green Book to develop business cases and Waterfall methodology. And crucially, you’ve got the people skills to work with project teams, Met colleagues and third-party suppliers.
Now more than ever is the time to join the Met Police. We want our team to be representative of London and are looking to recruit people who understand and reflect the diverse communities we engage with every day.
Besides the rewarding nature of the job itself, a competitive salary and a Civil Service pension, you'll also benefit from excellent career and a continuous learning culture. If you’re seeking flexible working arrangements, including part-time working, job share or a career break return, your application is welcome.
Digital Policing
Digital Policing is committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working arrangements, including part time working, job share or carers and career break returners.
Policing London is a hugely complex challenge that evolves every day. We are therefore committed to ensuring our staff and officers can develop the right IT skills with a continuous learning culture.
Job Summary
As part of the Business Engagement Team, the Business Analyst is responsible for the investigation, analysis and design of business activities and processes with a requirement for technology enabling the progression of projects into delivery.
The Business Analyst works with operational colleagues, project teams and third-party suppliers to translate business needs to identify requirements, business capabilities and solution options that can be delivered by Digital Policing.
The Business Analyst enables the business to make informed decisions on the options available to meet the business outcomes, their relative business value and therefore the projects to progress.
The Business Analyst is responsible for creating key artefacts used in the business lifecycle: i.e. process models and maps, requirements (functional and non-functional), decision and options papers, benefits realisation etc
The Business Analyst informs on a number of other artefacts including business and technology design, business change requirements, impact assessments etc
Key Tasks
- Accountable for analysing customer requests; translating requests into technical capabilities and assessing these against the Service Catalogue.
- Accountable for working with business users to coordinate and prepare the following artefacts with support as required: functional and non-functional requirements, business requirement documents, business justification documents, business benefits, use cases, functional specifications and designs. Ensure requirements are appropriately implemented within the solution.
- Accountable for coordinating and preparing the technology inputs to the business case.
- Work with DP to scope and assess potential Proof of Capabilities (PoC).
- Define the existing (as-is) processes, lead the design of new (to-be) processes using Business Process Model Notation (BPMN), identify and quantify any gaps; develop recommendations for business improvements.
- Produce artefacts to support the analysis and design phase of projects using a modelling language such as Signavio
- Assist in preparation for and facilitation of working groups and stakeholder meetings.
- Accurately complete and submit time spent on projects for cross charging and proactively flag to the Demand Manager when they are becoming available.
- Organise Unit Acceptance Testing (UAT) and business acceptance for successful delivery of projects and programmes.
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 7th February 2023.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Essential Criteria:
- Evidence of Inclusive Behaviour.
Knowledge
- In-depth knowledge of a broad range of leading practice business analysis modelling techniques
- Good knowledge of the key business stakeholders and how to manage engagement with them to elicit best outcomes
- Knowledge of the MPS infrastructure, applications and key suppliers supporting the MPS business, in particular the business-critical ones
- Good understanding of the Met Direction
- Knowledge and understanding of risk management, impact assessments and quality assurance
- Knowledge of National and local governance processes i.e. MOPAC
- Knowledge of the full End-to-End Delivery lifecycle and the Treasury Green Book process for the production of business cases
- In-depth knowledge of a broad range of leading practice business analysis modelling techniques
- Educated to degree level or equivalent BA experience gained in an ICT environment
Skills
- Works collaboratively with clients/team: able to ensure the interests of the project are ahead of self when necessary; coaches others on value of collaborative working and demonstrates its value.
- Analysis skills: able to analyse a range of information sources, resolve potentially conflicting information and simplify difficulty situations, models and issues to create coherent and structured actions that add value for the client.
- Communication and personal skills: able to effectively manage stakeholders at all levels while rebuilding trust. Ensuring that information shared is appropriate, and that gathered is useful in progressing project endeavours. Is articulate when delivering presentations and during discussions
- Report writing and artefact production: able to write articulated structured and succinct professional documents which will be presented at board decision meetings. Able to construct detailed requirements from business input, maintaining traceability, for the selection of suppliers, technical design and to inform testing of a prod
- Facilitation: able to prepare and lead meetings, challenge constructively and drive decision making, including engagement with third party suppliers.
- Manage workload: able to manage the varied demands of projects running at different stages, prioritising where necessary, working independently, pro-actively and without supervision
Experience
- Previous experience of working as a Business Analyst where an in-depth practical experience has been developed to manage and deliver the demand and requirements of varied pieces of work. Small, large, complex, MPS and National IT projects and programmes Business Process Re-engineering.
- Development of ICT business cases, following the Treasury Green Book.
- Owning the responsibility for producing Business Process Modelling, Gap Analysis, Benefit realisation, Business Cases and other decision papers
- Business Analysis in public sector environment using different methodologies but primarily Waterfall.
- Working in a complex ecosystem of suppliers and managing third party suppliers.
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
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