Business Analyst - Consultant

About the Position

Business Analyst - Consultant

Join Opencast as a Business Analyst - Consultant. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver impactful solutions for government, healthcare, and private sectors.

Responsibilities

As a Business Analyst (Consultant), you’ll bring a depth of experience and expertise from working in large, complex organisations. You’ll collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams with product managers, software developers, user researchers, designers, and other specialists to tackle interesting problems and deliver meaningful solutions for clients.

You’ll build strong relationships with client stakeholders, understanding their needs and translating them into clear, actionable requirements. You’ll also ensure that all work meets Opencast’s high standards, including quality, environmental, and information security policies, as well as any applicable client requirements and standards.

Requirements

• Experience: Experience as a Business Analyst with tangible examples demonstrating the ability to apply business analysis techniques (e.g. SWOT, 5 Whys) to understand business context, processes, and systems; analyse root causes, define problems, evaluate options, and make recommendations aligned with strategic goals.
• Skills: Elicit, analyse, validate, and prioritise business and user requirements using techniques such as BPMN process flows, wireframing, and data analysis. Define epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements; maintain traceability and facilitate prioritisation.
• Collaboration: Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships and cross-functional teams, communicating clearly, reaching consensus, and adapting messages to different audiences.
• Security Clearance: Must either hold active Security Check (SC) clearance or be eligible and willing to undergo the clearance process.

Nice to Have

• Experience working to the GOV.UK Service Standards, including passing service standard assessments at different stages.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: £45,000 - £52,000 per annum.
• A competitive package including a 7% employer pension contribution, share options, and a discretionary bonus.
• 25 days’ holiday and access to 3 annual “life happens” days.
• Wellbeing support, ongoing professional development, volunteering opportunities, and the chance to be part of a genuinely supportive team.

About the Company

We are a growing technology consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose. We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking, and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Locations

• Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham

Commitment

• Permanent - Employee

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Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs.