Business Analyst

About the opportunity:

Since 2019 Jacobs has been engaged in supporting one of our large government clients in one of their most challenging and complex transformation journeys ever undertaken. The programme has been designed to consolidate key enabling business functions under a single operating model.

This project provides a challenging and rewarding environment for individuals seeking to grow their experience and understanding of public sector transformation. This will involve:

• Transformation at scale. 20,000 user community, 500 strong programme team
  
• Complex delivery approach. A hybrid in more than one sense, the programme employs a range of project delivery models while journeying to Scaled Agile.
  
• We are entering an exciting phase of the programme lifecycle; starting to bring together the business processes and enabling technologies for the first phase of integrated testing.
  
• Ahead of us lies two years of intensive work to implement the desired business changes.
  

Jacobs currently provide project and programme management expertise as well as business analysis capability to support programme delivery. A key part of this will be for experienced Business Analysts, able to unpick complex business process relationships and drive the client towards simple, coherent solutions.Here's What You'll Need:

• Demonstrable experience of:
  
  • Working on complex business transformational projects
    
  • Defining Scope and Objectives
    
  • Developing and communicating delivering plans
    
  • Encouraging and tracking progress
    
• An ability to be adaptable and set own priorities.
  
• Good emotional intelligence to understand what the client really needs to achieve
  

Given the nature of the work that our client does, security is of paramount importance. You will need to be eligible for high level security clearance so will need to have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years.

Why Jacobs?

We clear the way for inventive thinking so you have the support, means and space to deliver the boldest solutions for the extraordinary and every day. Jacobs. A world where you can.

Our Culture:

We're invested in you and your success. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

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Successful candidates will be asked to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard Pre-Employment check and will be required to undergo various checks including: Identity, Right to Work; Employment/Education History and Criminal Record. If you are unable to meet this and any associated criteria, then your employment may be delayed or rejected.