1,050 Business Analyst jobs in the United Kingdom

Role Title: Business Analyst (Infrastructure / Network)
Location: Birmingham or Sheffield (Hybrid - 3 Days per Week Onsite)
Duration: 3 Months
Rate: 310.00 via Umbrella

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure / Network Business Analyst to support a strategic Data Warehouse Assessment initiative. The role involves analyzing current infrastructure and network capabilities, identifying gaps, and recommending improvements to support scalable and secure data warehousing solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

* Collaborate with infrastructure, network, and data architecture teams to assess current-state capabilities.
* Document and analyse existing network topology, data flows, and integration points related to the data warehouse.
* Identify performance bottlenecks, security risks, and scalability limitations in the current infrastructure.
* Gather and validate business and technical requirements for future-state data warehouse infrastructure.
* Support the development of infrastructure and network architecture recommendations aligned with business goals.
* Facilitate workshops and stakeholder interviews to capture requirements and pain points.
* Assist in risk assessments and impact analysis for proposed infrastructure changes.
* Work closely with project managers to align infrastructure deliverables with overall project timelines.

Required Skills & Experience:

* Proven experience as a Business Analyst in infrastructure and/or network domains.
* Strong understanding of enterprise networking, cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), and data center operations.
* Familiarity with data warehouse technologies and architectures (e.g., Snowflake, Teradata, Azure Synapse).
* Experience in documenting technical requirements, process flows, and system interactions.
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
* Ability to translate technical concepts into business-friendly language.

Desirable Skills:

* Experience with data governance, security, and compliance frameworks.
* Knowledge of ETL processes and data integration tools.
* Exposure to Agile or hybrid project delivery methodologies?

Overview
We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to join a fast-paced programme team based in Cheltenham. This role involves supporting business change and technology projects, helping to shape and deliver solutions that drive measurable improvement across operations.
The Business Analyst will work closely with stakeholders to understand business needs, define requirements, and support delivery teams to implement effective change.

Role Summary
As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for leading workshops, capturing business requirements, analysing existing processes, and identifying opportunities for optimisation. You will liaise between business and technical teams, ensuring clarity, consistency, and delivery of agreed outcomes.
This position requires strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities within a collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops and engage with diverse stakeholders.
• Analyse business processes and document clear, actionable requirements.
• Support Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
• Prepare process models, reports, and requirement documentation.
• Collaborate with project and delivery teams to ensure successful outcomes.
• Track business performance and contribute to benefits realisation.
• Capture lessons learned and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Must be sole British and ideally hold DV Clearance

Skills and Experience
The Business Analyst should have experience in:

• Stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation.
• Process mapping (Visio or equivalent tools).
• Using JIRA and Confluence or similar collaboration platforms.
• Working on technology-led transformation projects.
• Understanding of change management and business transition activities.
• Knowledge of LEAN, Six Sigma, or business improvement methodologies (desirable).

Personal Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Confident communicator, comfortable engaging at all organisational levels.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and adaptable in dynamic environments.
• Collaborative team player with a focus on delivery excellence.
• Passionate about professional development as a Business Analyst and contributing to positive business outcomes.

Company information

At First Recruitment Group we understand just how important it is to secure the right people. That is why our Recruitment Consultants always take the time to understand requirements in detail and offer sound advice to both clients and candidates.  We actively recruit at all levels and this is a superb opportunity for any Business Analyst looking for new employment.

As part of putting people first, we strive to be an equal opportunities employer and we are always looking to increase the diversity of our workforce, working closely with our clients to ensure everyone is included.

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support project teams in developing and implementing effective delivery methodologies. The successful candidate will act as a bridge between clients and delivery teams - understanding business needs, translating them into actionable requirements, and ensuring successful outcomes in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• Analyse business processes and operations, applying appropriate tools and techniques to identify and implement improvements aligned with client objectives.

• Facilitate workshops to engage stakeholders, gather insights, and communicate findings and recommendations.

• Define, document, and manage business requirements, ensuring traceability throughout the project lifecycle.

• Develop and articulate methodologies and approaches clearly and concisely.

• Establish baseline business performance metrics and track benefits realisation.

• Prepare high-quality project summary reports and presentations for client stakeholders.

• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across technology-led transformation programmes - supporting strategy, business design and change management.

• Analyse complex problems, design innovative solutions, and communicate them effectively to diverse audiences.

• Support transformational change initiatives using recognised business change models, tools, and techniques.

• Work iteratively with stakeholders to define benefits, options, and acceptance criteria.

• Facilitate scoping and business priority setting for medium to large-scale change initiatives.

• Contribute to defining the most suitable representation of business requirements, ensuring end-to-end traceability from initial request to delivery.

• Identify impacts on business requirements across interim (e.g., migration) and final states.

• Collaborate with suppliers and delivery partners to meet agreed timelines and quality standards.

• Share knowledge across teams and contribute to continuous improvement through lessons learned.

Essential:

• Strong stakeholder engagement and management skills.

• Proven experience facilitating workshops with diverse stakeholder groups.

• Excellent relationship-building abilities across all business levels.

• Demonstrable experience in requirements definition and management.

• Skilled in business process modelling (Visio).

• Experience using the Atlassian suite (Confluence and JIRA).

• Experience delivering within both Waterfall and Agile environments.

• Strong communication planning and implementation skills.

• Experience preparing business areas for transition to new ways of working.

• Experience supporting stakeholders through business transformation initiatives.

• Confident in leadership, reporting, and presenting findings to senior audiences.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of LEAN, Six Sigma, or other business improvement methodologies.

• Proven delivery experience as a Business Analyst or in a comparable role.

• Self-motivated, confident, and personable, with strong interpersonal skills.

• Trusted by clients, with the ability to identify opportunities to add value.

• Committed to continuous professional and personal development.

• Collaborative team player who delivers to high standards and strong business ethics.

• Able to manage competing priorities effectively under pressure.

• Emotionally intelligent, adaptable, and capable of engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Confident communicator, able to express ideas clearly and influence senior stakeholders.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Business Analyst | Hybrid | Public Sector

We're looking for a Business Analyst to join a respected UK public sector organisation driving a major digital transformation.

As a Business Analyst, you will manage projects, analyse processes and systems, define requirements, collaborate with stakeholders, and support the design, testing, and implementation of change initiatives using Agile practices.

Role Snapshot:

• Location: Brighton-based office, 1-2 days onsite, 3-4 days remote / flexible hours
• Salary: 38K-41K + excellent benefits
• Pension: Up to 27% employer contribution
• Leave: 25+ days annual leave + bank holidays

Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out business engagement, acting as key point of contact for the business, own the main stakeholder relationships and actively share knowledge.
• Analyse business processes, systems, and data to identify improvements
• Collaborate with stakeholders and support testing, design, and implementation
• Contribute to digital transformation goals across the organisation

If you're ready to play a key role in transforming public services through technology, apply today and join a forward-thinking team.

• Gather information on systems (on prem/cloud) used by multiple business units.
• Analyse current systems, particularly in preparation for deployment of the new ERP instance.
• Create clear and concise documentation of processes. This will include functional specifications and technical requirements.
• Act as a liaison between business teams and technical resources throughout project delivery.
• Support configuration, training, and successful go-live of the new ERP platform and other systems across the business.
• Assist departments (e.g. HR, Business Development) in selecting best in class systems and phasing out legacy platforms.
• Identify opportunities for process automation and key system(s) reporting.
• Work with external suppliers to ensure timely delivery of solutions

• Proven experience in a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst role. This will ideally have been in a manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Strong understanding of ERP systems (Epicor experience desirable).
• Demonstrable ability to bridge the gap between non-technical stakeholders and technical teams.
• Experience with HR software solutions and awareness of their integration into other internal systems.
• Skilled in requirements gathering, business process mapping and writing functional specifications.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and documentation capabilities.

• Experience with HRIS platforms
• Exposure to reporting tools such as Power BI
• Understanding of data integrations and workflow automation
• Familiarity with SharePoint
• Exposure to SQL and associated database tools.
• Knowledge of data security and working in regulated environments

Technical Business Analyst – Financial Services – Inside IR35 – Immediate Start

Location: Hybrid (2 days per week on-site (Location TBA) 
Contract: 6 months initially (Inside IR35)
Rate: Competitive day rate
Start: Immediate

We’re working with a leading financial institution embarking on a major transformation to build and implement their own proprietary platform. As part of this initiative, they are moving a number of critical business and technical workloads from legacy systems to a new, scalable environment.

They are looking for a strong Technical Business Analyst to join the project team and play a key role in shaping and delivering this change.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Product, Technology, and Business stakeholders to capture, analyse, and document requirements for the new platform.

• Support the migration of multiple workloads and applications from existing systems to the new environment.

• Work closely with architects, engineers, and developers to ensure technical requirements are accurately translated into delivery outcomes.

• Map and analyse current and target processes, identifying gaps, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.

• Facilitate workshops, clarify business logic, and define data, integration, and workflow requirements.

• Contribute to testing and validation to ensure solutions meet agreed acceptance criteria.

Skills & Experience Required

• Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst within complex, large-scale financial services environments.

• Strong understanding of platform development, systems integration, and data flows.

• Experience supporting application or workload migration projects.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Agile delivery experience desirable.

Why Apply?

• Join a major financial institution at a pivotal stage of digital transformation.

• Work alongside experienced engineers, product owners, and programme leads.

• Hybrid model with two days a week on-site.

• Immediate start available for the right individual.

Interested?
If you’re a proactive, delivery-focused Business Analyst with a strong technical grounding, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now for immediate consideration.

Business Analyst

Contract - Inside IR35

In order to produce the business case, a plan has been produced to engage stakeholders and gather user needs under a tight timeframe. Business Analyst support is essential for this.

2. Objectives

· Get up-to-speed on the project and what is required, including reviewing background documents and getting an overview from the relevant functional leads.

· Stakeholder mapping & prioritization - Identify key stakeholders for each function and prioritize consultation based on their roles and needs. Pay attention to who is not at the table and invite them or have them in mind as the group prioritises.

· Develop process and materials to gather and prioritise user stories with the relevant stakeholders, including development of presentations, surveys, ranking tools and discussion guides that can be tailored by each stakeholder group (caucus).

· Support and document the gathering of user stories in collaboration with functional (caucus) leads

· Analyse feedback - review and consolidate collected data from consultations, identifying common and unique priorities, themes, and contrasts.

· Support the documentation of relevant process flows in collaboration with TBS workstream leads

· Compile a report summarizing stakeholder feedback from caucuses and recommendations for the MVP development

A Business Analyst with experience of, process modelling, gathering, articulating and analysing user stories and process flows.

Role Title: Business Analyst

Job: Experienced Business Analyst - Insurance Broking (Placement Project)

Location: London (Hybrid)

Role Purpose: To help deliver business analysis activities within the Placement Project, supporting the transformation of broking operations and systems. The role focuses on optimising placement workflows, enhancing operational efficiency, and ensuring alignment with regulatory and strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Placement Project Delivery:

• Collaborate with Operations and Business stakeholders to define and document requirements for the Placement Programme.
• Analyse and improve placement workflows including MRC creation, firm order processing, endorsements, and post-placement activities .
• Support the design, configuration, testing, and go-live phases of the placement solution, including training and hyper-care periods.

• Stakeholder Engagement:

• Act as a liaison between broking teams, operations, technology, and external vendors.
• Facilitate workshops and interviews to gather business requirements and translate them into actionable deliverables.

• Process & Systems Analysis:

• Map current and future state processes using tools like Visio and JIRA.
• Work with broking software platforms and Salesforce integrations.
• Ensure compliance with operational manuals and FCA Conduct Rules.

• Project Governance & Reporting:

• Maintain RAID logs, contribute to project documentation.
• Provide metrics and insights to support continuous improvement and benefit realisation.

Skills & Experience Required:

Proven experience in insurance broking, particularly within the London Market.

Strong understanding of placement processes, including pre-placement, placement, and post-placement workflows.

Proficiency in business analysis tools (Azure DevOps, Visio), and Salesforce.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Experience working in Agile environments and across multiple concurrent projects.

Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and operational risk management.

Business Analyst - Salisbury 2-3 days/ Hybrid - up to 45K

A leading property services company is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join a transformation team. This is a fantastic opportunity to drive meaningful change, improve processes, and work cross-functionally on strategic initiatives.

We're looking for a hands-on, proactive BA to:

• Lead workshops and stakeholder interviews to gather business requirements.
• Map and improve processes (AS-IS / TO-BE), identifying opportunities for optimisation.
• Produce clear documentation (BRDs, FSDs, user stories, process maps).
• Support solution design, testing (UAT), and implementation across teams.
• Provide data analysis and insights to inform decision-making.
• Act as a key liaison between business and technical teams.

What You'll Need:

• 5+ years' BA experience
• Strong analytical and process mapping skills (BPMN, Visio, etc.)
• Confident communicator and workshop facilitator
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and SDLC
• Skilled in documentation, Excel, and business case development
• Tools like JIRA, Confluence, Power BI or SQL are a plus
• BA certifications and property sector experience are desirable

Salary: up to 45K
Benefits: 24 days holiday, 5% pension contribution, birthday bonus day, healthcare plan, social events, coffee club, professional development paths and more

Join a collaborative and forward-thinking team making a real impact on operational change and service delivery.

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