Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, are currently looking to recruit a Business Analyst for an initial 4 month contract on a rate of c.GBP300-350/day (outside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances this role will initially be remote based.

Responsibilities:

Complete work instructions from Project Managers and other workstream leads. This includes timescales and quality levels.
Create specification documentation reflective of requirements. Role may require input into Business Cases or options papers. Working with the business and the IT & Change team to identify how the business requirements and priorities can be achieved. For example - a change to the process, a configuration change or a brand new system or application.
Ensure all stakeholders are properly identified and sufficiently consulted while developing requirements and solutions.
Timely monitoring of feedback from other specialisms in order to ensure all quality concerns and solution detail is captured accurately.
Model As-Is and To-Be processes

Essential Skills:

Familiar with industry and professional standards. Specifically Waterfall or V-model specification documentation and Agile User Stories.
Familiar with modelling tools. Knowledge of Visual Paradigm would be advantageous.
Certified ISEB Business Analysis and Requirements Gathering (or equivalent).
Proficient in Information Capture techniques - such as contextual enquiries, interviews, questionnaires, observation and statistical analysis
Knowledge of SQL in order to retrieve suitable data to support analysis. Our client uses TOAD for SQL queries.
Excellent facilitation and communication skills

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.