Senior Business Analyst – Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: £55,201 – £62,288
Location: Service Headquarters, Kelvedon Park*
Closing Date: 27th November 2024

*We are open to discuss working arrangements including flexibility over hours and location

The Role
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Business Analyst to start with us as part of our Innovation and Change Team. The successful candidate will be required to line manage a small team of Business Analysts in addition to flexibly managing multiple areas of work, monitoring the quality of outputs to ensure business requirements are met.

The role will require experience in conducting strategic analysis to understand complex, interdependent, and wide-ranging business requirements, aimed at enhancing operational effectiveness.

The post holder will critically assess the current Service environment to evaluate effectiveness and efficiency. Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service quality.

Extensive knowledge and experience of successful business analysis is essential, including experience in developing Project requirements, improving business processes and identifying opportunities for improvements.

The successful candidate will be required to analyse, identify and resolve potential conflicts regarding business processes and requirements.

Exceptional communication skills are essential, sufficient to write complex reports and engage with employees, managers and partners to influence effective delivery of the Service vision.

What You Will Be Working On
Working with other Change professionals and Senior Management stakeholders you will assist in the delivery of our Change Portfolio
Our Change Portfolio consists of a diverse range of projects from ICT Systems, Estate Management projects, Operational Solutions and other transformational change projects
Manage the future change pipeline by leading discovery efforts with the Business Analysis team, to inform project related decision-making
Working together with our Service functions to gather requirements as part of any procurement activity
Completing Change Impact Assessments as part of our Change Delivery
Attending ECFRS events on behalf of the Innovation & Change team

How to apply
You will be required to submit a supporting statement of no more than 750 words that demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria of the Person Specification. You may submit this either as a word document or pdf

You must also submit your CV which should clearly detail your qualifications and work history. Your additional documents will be referred to in shortlisting to confirm eligibility (e.g., your current role and any existing qualifications).

This role will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.