Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) has an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team in Maidstone, Kent. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a base salary of £47, 076 - £52,397 per annum , depending upon experience. This is a hybrid role with 3 days per week in the office.
Being a part of Kent Fire and Rescue Service
Everyone is unique. Everyone has value. Everyone helps to make Kent Fire and Rescue Service a great place to work. We are one team. Together with our customers, we are creating a safer future for Kent and Medway.
About the Senior Business Analyst role:
You will work in partnership with internal business customers to understand, analyse, document and deliver new business processes to achieve the organisations strategic goals.
The current portfolio of work is diverse and complex requiring a variety of skills to investigate business problems, develop options for change, understand and evolve business processes and assist with the delivery of new IT solutions using both waterfall and Agile project methodologies.
Benefits
- Blue Light Card discount scheme
- A range of family friendly policies including promoting work-life balance
- Access to health and wellbeing services and advice
- Access LinkedIn Learning online training
- Free parking
- Above all you ll become part of a service that is committed to the safety of our community
What you'll do as our Senior Business Analyst:
- Be involved with the full change life cycle from inception through to implementation; investigating business problems, undertake options analysis and gather requirements.
- Assist in the successful embedding of change within the organisation.
- Work with a range of stakeholders both internal and external, (including suppliers and partners), to research and understand business needs and identify problems.
- Work with business leads to develop business cases, identify and quantify project benefits, and conduct post implementation reviews and evaluation.
What you'll bring:
- Knowledge and practical application of Business Analysis techniques.
- Knowledge and experience of both Agile and Waterfall models and exposure to software development life cycles.
- The ability to analyse business situations and support the effective development, testing, deployment and post implementation review of proposed solutions.
- The ability to undertake research to evaluate options and make robust, evidence based, recommendations.
- A Business Analysis qualification such as BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or CBAP Certificate in Business Analysis Profession.
Closing date: 8 November 2024
Interviews will take place on 20 and/or 22 November 2024 and will include a case study.
If you feel have the skills and experience to become our Senior Business Analyst please click apply today, we d love to hear from you!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy upon receiving a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this role we recommend that you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don t think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees, and volunteers are committed to safeguarding, protecting, and supporting children, young people, and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people, and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks.
As a Public Sector organisation with added responsibilities under the Equality Act, 2010 the candidate must demonstrate an understanding of what is meant by Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and how this fits in with their everyday work.