Job Title: Business Analyst
Salary: £36,918 - £54,655
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Hybrid
Office location: either Birmingham (B54UA) or London (E14 4HD)
About Us
We’re Ofwat – a non-ministerial government department responsible for regulating the water sector in England and Wales. Our work is high-profile and fast-moving, within a dynamic and agile environment. The work that you’ll be involved in every day will help us to deliver our strategy, to make us the regulator we want to be and help the sector to deliver for customers and society.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join our Operational Performance and Data Strategy team, as part of our plans to upgrade and modernise our data platform (Programme Ocean). The team sit within the Sector Performance directorate and shape how data is utilised across Ofwat and the sector through the delivery of Ofwat's data strategy.
The Data Strategy team provide other teams with practical solutions that result in efficiencies, enhanced visibility and access to data, as well as effective decision making and insights. They also lead on the development of our new data platform
You will work closely with colleagues across Ofwat and with third party suppliers, to lead on the analysis of business requirements and user needs contributing to our exciting data platform modernisation programme.
Why Join Us
- Meaningful Impact: Your work will play an important role in delivering the wider environmental policy objectives of Ofwat’s strategy.
- Innovative Work Environment: From becoming the first Civil Service organisation to achieve ‘Smarter Working’ status, to gaining our prestigious ‘Smarter Working Maturity’ award, we’ve consistently demonstrated our commitment to embracing innovative ways of working. . Ours is a culture of trust, flexibility, autonomy, collaboration, and innovation.
- Development Opportunities: We are a learning organisation, and you will have opportunities to develop your knowledge and experience, and to consolidate your skills set. We have a well-supported, agile working environment, and have a trust-based culture intended to help empower you and enable and support you to succeed within Ofwat.
- Work-Life Balance and Flexible Working: Based in either our London or Birmingham Office, our people do their best work when given freedom over where, when, and how they work. Which is why we trust our teams to balance meaningful collaboration in the office with the flexibility of working from home.
Other Benefits
- Excellent employer pension contribution ranging from £10,695 to £15,833 per annum.
- 25 days’ annual leave, increasing to 30 with each year of service, plus bank holidays and an extra 2.5 days of privilege leave.
- Access to exclusive discounts on a variety of goods and services, including retail outlets, theatre tickets, holidays, insurance, and a gym membership.
- Fees paid for membership of relevant profes
- sional bodies.
- Up to 3 volunteering days per year.
- Recognition vouchers scheme rewarding your hard work.
- Generous shared parental leave and pay supporting your family life.
What you bring
Experience, skills and knowledge
- Experience working in or with public sector organisations, or with the Utility Sector.
- Experience of Agile Project Management delivery.
- Experience or knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and Purview.
- Demonstrable experience of working on a large-scale data transformation programme.
- Strong business process modelling skills, capturing existing processes and designing new processes.
- Highly effective at translating business requirements into user stories in a format that is easily consumable by the Agile team.
- Experience generating robust documentation to support the rollout of new systems.
- Proficient in business and technical stakeholder management, sensitive to the needs of each stakeholder yet comfortable to challenge where appropriate.
- Competent facilitator of workshops to achieve focused outcomes.
- Proven experience working independently.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate to a wide range of audiences.
Attributes
- Adaptable Thinker
- Delivers Outcomes
- Committed Learner
- Promotes Collaboration
Attributes as per Ofwat’s Framework for Success for Principal Grade. You can read more about our attributes here.
To find out more about the role, team and selection process, please follow the link to apply.
Closing Date: 23:55 on 29 September 2024
