Senior Business Analyst Role at Cancer Research UK

Expert Analysis. Cross-Functional Collaboration. Solving Complex Challenges.

Senior Business Analyst

• Salary: £46,000 – £55,000 (+ Benefits)
• Reports to: Lead Business Analyst
• Department: Chief Operating Office
• Contract: Permanent
• Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
• Location: Stratford, London. Flexible working (1-2 days per week in the office).
• Visa Sponsorship: Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK. Cancer Research UK does not provide visa sponsorship for this role.

Application Deadline: 05 December 2024, 23:55

This role may close early if a high number of applications are received or a suitable candidate is identified. We encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment. If you need more time due to a reasonable adjustment, contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk promptly.

Recruitment Process:

• Two competency-based interviews.
• Includes a scenario-based exercise.
• Interview Date: Week commencing 09 December 2024.

How to Apply:
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process to ensure fairness and inclusivity. CVs are required but will only be reviewed if you are invited for an interview. Instead, you must fully complete the work history section of the online application form, allowing us to assess candidates objectively and fairly.

About Us

At Cancer Research UK, our mission is to beat cancer.

We’re purpose-driven professionals making strides every day. To accelerate progress, we’re looking for skilled and motivated individuals like you—those eager to grow and make a difference.

Our Business Analysis team plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between technology and the wider organisation. They help optimise our technical resources to enable operational transformation, enhance employee experience, and drive innovation. This supports our inclusive, agile, and sustainable organisational goals, ensuring we can achieve our mission of beating cancer.

This involves championing innovation, providing analytical insights, and driving change across products and services used by 4,000+ staff, 600+ shops, and thousands of supporters who raised £463m in 2023/24 for our life-saving research.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll work within a technology portfolio, delivering large and complex projects while rotating across various products. This includes accurately capturing and validating requirements, identifying impactful solutions, and providing analysis expertise to shape and deliver technical solutions. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders across all levels to ensure alignment with the charity’s technology needs and strategic goals.

If you have experience as a Business Analyst in medium to large multi-product organisations with a robust IT function or IT consultancy, we’d love you to join our mission.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver large, complex projects within a product portfolio, creating innovative and adaptable business solutions while driving efficiencies and leveraging shared capabilities.
• Provide business analysis expertise to enable technical transformation across multiple workstreams and products.
• Assess the bigger picture to manage priorities, identify dependencies, and mitigate risks.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels to identify and evaluate solutions and process improvements that meet business objectives and provide optimal cost-benefit balance.
• Develop a thorough understanding of specific business areas and their strategies to influence decisions effectively.
• Maintain awareness of Cancer Research UK’s technology capabilities, processes, and services.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies to ensure solutions are compatible and existing capabilities are reused where appropriate.
• Contribute to investment appraisals and decision-making to ensure solutions deliver maximum value to the organisation.
• Gather, understand, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Analyse existing processes to identify strengths and weaknesses, recommend improvements, and provide constructive challenges where necessary.
• Translate business requirements into Agile epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements are clearly documented for developers, testers, and other project team members, tailored to the project methodology (e.g., Agile).
• Partner with teams across the organisation to align requirements, information architecture, and user experience.
• Provide analysis expertise and leadership throughout project lifecycles.
• Support the delivery of large, complex projects by developing practical solutions that add value to the organisation.
• Share expertise and best practices, contribute to toolkits, and support the business analyst community and process owners.
• Assist with test scenarios, scripts, and execution, working with customers and colleagues to ensure changes are thoroughly tested and accepted.
• Create relevant guidelines and user guides as needed.
• Collaborate closely with Project Managers and Business Owners to track progress, develop plans, prioritise work, and document projects effectively.
• Define KPIs/SLAs to monitor process effectiveness and enhance efficiency.

What Skills Will I Need?

• Experienced Business Analyst with a background in medium to large multi-product organisations or IT consultancies.
• Skilled in managing multiple workstreams/products, with the ability to handle complexity and identify dependencies and risks.
• Expertise in business analysis techniques, including workshop design and facilitation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to understand needs and influence decision-making at all levels.
• Advanced knowledge of process and data modelling, as well as process improvement.
• Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to break down complex challenges and create effective solutions.
• Commercially aware, with a clear understanding of Cancer Research UK’s mission and the role of Delivery teams in achieving it.

Our Values

Our values guide everything we do:

• Bold: Act with ambition, courage, and determination.
• Credible: Work with rigour and professionalism.
• Human: Have a positive impact on people.
• Together: Collaborate inclusively and effectively.

We seek candidates who embody these values to drive progress in our mission to beat cancer.

If you’re excited about working with us but unsure whether you meet all the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

What Will I Gain?

We provide a supportive working environment with a generous benefits package, career development opportunities, and high-quality tools. Our policies promote work-life balance, personal growth, and well-being.

Visit our careers page to learn more about our benefits.

Additional Information

For more details about working with us, visit our website or contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk.

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We’re committed to building an inclusive organisation where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, especially under-represented groups such as ethnic minorities.

Let us know if you require any adjustments to perform your best during the application process, interviews, or at work. Contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or call 020 3469 8400.

Please note: We cannot hire anyone under 18 due to health, safety, and safeguarding considerations.