Senior Business Analyst
ECS Resource Group
Job Description
Senior Business Analyst (Digital eProcurement Transformation)
Contract: 12 Months
Location: London (Hybrid)
We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a major digital transformation programme focused on modernising procurement, contract management, reporting and governance processes through a new enterprise platform.
Working closely with the Product Owner, business stakeholders and delivery teams, you will play a key role in translating business objectives into practical solutions, ensuring requirements are clearly defined, prioritised and successfully delivered. This is an opportunity to contribute to a high-profile transformation initiative that will improve operational efficiency, transparency, reporting and user experience across a complex business environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Elicit, analyse and document business requirements supporting the transformation of procurement, tendering, contract management, reporting and governance processes.
- Work with procurement, operational and technology stakeholders to define future-state processes, user journeys, workflows and business rules.
- Develop functional specifications, user stories and acceptance criteria for a new enterprise procurement and contract management platform.
- Support product backlog management, prioritisation and sprint planning activities, ensuring requirements are aligned to business value and delivery priorities.
- Identify opportunities to improve procurement oversight, contract monitoring, reporting capabilities and user experience through technology-enabled solutions.
- Define and validate acceptance criteria and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
- Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagement across procurement, business, data and technology teams.
- Support release planning, go-live readiness, business adoption and change management activities.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, developers and delivery teams to ensure successful delivery of business-critical capabilities.
- Support the implementation of integrated reporting and data management solutions that improve transparency, governance and decision-making.
- Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst on large-scale digital transformation programmes.
- Strong experience working alongside Product Owners in Agile delivery environments.
- Demonstrated expertise in requirements gathering, backlog management, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Experience facilitating workshops and managing complex stakeholder groups.
- Experience supporting testing, release management and business adoption activities.
- Experience delivering digital procurement, procurement transformation, contract management, workflow or case management platforms.
- Experience working on enterprise-scale technology implementations involving multiple stakeholder groups and system integrations.
- Experience within banking, financial services, public sector, international organisations or other highly regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of data, reporting and management information solutions, including translating reporting and governance needs into business requirements.