Business Analyst
£43,000 per annum
Long Stratton, Norwich, Norfolk
Temporary, Full Time - FTC up to 12 Months
Full-time - 37 hours per week
We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst to join our Change team on a fixed term basis (up to 12 months) to provide analysis and insight as part of the Change & Transformation strategy for Saffron. You will be working as part of the team on multiple projects to enable the successful delivery of transformational change for the business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Have a structured approach to problem definition, define and evaluate improvement initiatives and implement selected solutions.
- Lead change implementation activities, providing steering and guidance to teams and regular updates to stakeholders.
- Identify, manage and coordinate resolution of data quality issues.
- Document and develop tracking and analysis of targeted benefits information for a change intervention.
- Lead end to end process redesign including facilitating Value steam mapping workshops, evaluating requirements for supporting systems, piloting potential solutions and developing Implementation plans.
Please see the full list of responsibilities on the Role Profile attached.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- A degree level academic qualification or equivalent level of skill and experience.
- Data driven with the ability to work creatively and display strong problem-solving skills with an analytical mind set.
- Has experience and understanding of using lean techniques or similar process review techniques (DMAIC/Six Sigma).
- Has experience & understanding of Agile or PRINCE2 project management methodology and techniques.
- Researches best practices and supports developing the solutions and recommendations for the current business operations.
- Strong knowledge of manipulating databases and reporting.
- Well developed, proven change management skills, highly adaptable, organised and with an ability to plan and set up systems to monitor multiple tasks and projects.
- Relationship builder and networker - approachable with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 4th September.
The Company
We are a housing association based in Norfolk providing quality homes and services to people across the county and in Suffolk.
We manage over 6,000 homes including affordable homes for those in housing need who cannot afford to rent or buy in the open market.
We offer specialist homes for older and vulnerable adults and are committed to providing new homes to help solve the housing crisis.
At Saffron
We have a huge commitment to our employees. We want the team at Saffron to be happy, empowered, motivated and feel proud to be part of the Saffron community. We know by having great people we can do a great job for our tenants. We trust our staff to do the right thing and we are looking for people whose values are aligned with ours (PACE - Professional, Accountable, Collaborative and Evolving).
You will have the freedom to learn and grow. We are passionate about investing in our people, providing them with the skills they need now, and for their future aspirations. We do this by offering a blend of learning opportunities, including our innovative e-learning platform where learning is self-directed allowing people to learn what they want, when they want to.
We work with and support our people to work in an agile way to ensure that have the right work/life balance. They have the choice to work in the office, work from home, coffee shop, park or a combination of all. We have recently refurbished our offices to encourage collaborative, agile working.
As an inclusive employer, we are committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and have a zero tolerance policy relating to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join the Saffron Community.