Business Analyst

Job title: Business Analyst Location:  Council Building, Southampton Discipline: Delivery and Digital Job type: Permanent Salary: £40,000 - £50,000 Job ref: RPO 03866 Are you ready to make a real difference in people’s lives while building a rewarding career? The Hampshire and the Solent Combined County Authority, known as the HSCCA, will give our region more local decision-making power. the HSCCA will be an organisation that formally brings together Leaders of the four upper tier councils (Hampshire County Council, Isle of Wight Council, Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council) to work together to make important decisions for the whole region. The HSCCA Board will also have other representatives on it. This means that decisions will be made closer to the people who live and work here, by leaders who understand local needs. As a Business Analyst you will play a key role in translating strategic objectives into practical, deliverable change across programmes, projects, and organisational initiatives. Working closely with stakeholders, you will analyse business needs, define requirements, map current and future processes, and support informed decision-making around services, systems, operating models, and ways of working. By reducing ambiguity, identifying improvements, and ensuring solutions align with user needs, statutory requirements, and organisational priorities, you will help strengthen change delivery, improve organisational readiness, and support the development of sustainable and effective new arrangements across HSCCA.What you’ll be doing In this role, you’ll play a crucial part in ensuring our teams have the tools, knowledge, and processes they need to deliver a high quality service. You will:

• Lead complex business analysis activity across programmes, projects and organisational initiatives, working with senior stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, define business needs and translate ambiguity into clear, actionable outcomes.
• Shape the design of future services, operating models and organisational arrangements, using evidence, analysis and stakeholder insight to support decisions about how HSCCA should operate, deliver services and realise benefits.
• Lead discovery, analysis and option development activity, identifying opportunities, constraints, dependencies, risks and improvement opportunities, and supporting evidence-based recommendations to project boards and decision-makers.
• Define, analyse and manage complex business, user and system requirements, ensuring requirements remain aligned to organisational priorities, statutory obligations, user needs and delivery objectives throughout the project lifecycle.
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