Senior Business Analyst Consultant
27 days ago
Manchester
We are recruiting for one of our valued clients, who are a market leading provider of IT Project Management Services. They have a rare and exciting opportunity for an accomplished, visionary, and highly strategic Senior Business Analyst Consultant/Business Architect to join their established team. This is a permanent, full time role, 5 days per week, balancing your time between working on client sites within the Manchester/Greater Manchester areas, and working remotely client/project dependent. This role offers a highly competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including a profit share bonus, employee assistance programme, private medical insurance, and life assurance. The Role of Senior Business Analyst Consultant/Business ArchitectIn this pivotal role as Senior Business Analyst Consultant/Business Architect, you will drive the successful delivery of complex, high-value projects and transformative programmes across multiple sectors, ensuring exceptional client outcomes and organisational advancement at every stage. You will combine deep analytical expertise with innovative problem-solving, consistently building and nurturing influential relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership.Key Responsibilities • Champion enterprise-wide business process optimisation, leading the design and implementation of 'As-Is' and 'To-Be' operating models across diverse business functions, • Direct, undertake and oversee stakeholder analysis, requirements engineering, user story development, and end-to-end test management for strategic initiatives, • Facilitate executive-level workshops, ensuring robust requirements traceability and the highest standards of documentation, • Lead impact assessments and produce comprehensive functional specifications and business requirements for mission-critical projects, • Govern the creation and strategic management of reporting catalogues and data specifications to inform executive decision-making, • Provide thought leadership and oversight for solution upgrades, large-scale system implementations, and business transformation programmes across sectors such as IT, Healthcare, Automotive, Publishing, Manufacturing, Leisure, Utilities, Housing and Care, and Higher Education, • Extensive experience as a Senior Business Analyst Consultant in complex, multi-sector, and multinational environments, • Recognised authority in business process re-engineering, requirements management, and strategic documentation, • Proven track record in executive workshop facilitation, senior stakeholder engagement, and advanced user story management, • Demonstrated leadership in solution upgrades, enterprise system implementations, and digital transformation at scale, • Expertise in designing enterprise forms, workflows, and mobile solutions aligned with organisational strategy, • Exceptional analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills, with the gravitas to influence at board level, • BCS Business Analysis Diploma (or equivalent advanced qualification), • The opportunity to shape and deliver high-impact, strategic projects with leading organisations