Senior Business Analyst Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
About the Company
Crests Solutions works within the business and technology sector, supporting organisations with solutions that help improve business processes and operational performance.
The company is looking for a Senior Business Analyst who can connect business objectives with practical solutions, bringing structure to complex requirements and helping stakeholders make informed decisions.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Work closely with business stakeholders, department heads and technical teams to understand business objectives and identify areas for improvement.
- Lead requirements-gathering sessions, stakeholder interviews and workshops to establish clear project needs.
- Analyse existing business processes, identify inefficiencies and recommend opportunities for improvement.
- Translate business requirements into functional specifications, user stories, process maps and acceptance criteria.
- Assess the impact of proposed changes on existing systems, workflows and business operations.
- Work with developers, solution architects and project managers to ensure requirements are understood and delivered correctly.
- Support the development and review of business cases, project documentation and solution proposals.
- Use data analysis and reporting to identify trends, measure performance and support business decisions.
- Manage requirements throughout the project lifecycle, including changes, priorities and stakeholder sign-off.
- Support user acceptance testing (UAT), validate solutions against business requirements and help coordinate implementation.
- Identify project risks, dependencies and potential delivery challenges, escalating issues where necessary.
What We’re Looking For
- Significant experience in a Business Analyst role, ideally with exposure to complex projects or business transformation initiatives.
- Strong skills in business requirements analysis, process mapping and stakeholder management.
- Experience producing business requirement documents (BRDs), functional specifications, user stories and process flows.
- Ability to analyse current and future-state business processes and recommend practical improvements.
- Understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC), Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.
- Experience working alongside technical teams on system changes, software implementations or digital projects.
- Confidence using data, reports and business metrics to support analysis and recommendations.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate complex information clearly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organisation and presentation skills.
Skills That Would Be an Advantage
- Experience with process modelling tools such as Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart or similar.
- Familiarity with Jira, Confluence or other requirements and project management platforms.
- Working knowledge of SQL, Excel, Power BI or other data analysis and reporting tools.
- Understanding of APIs, system integrations, databases and enterprise applications.
- Experience supporting digital transformation, system migration or business process automation projects.
What Makes This Role Interesting
This position offers the opportunity to take ownership of business analysis activities, work with stakeholders at different levels and contribute to projects that have a direct impact on how organisations operate.
You’ll have the scope to challenge existing processes, bring clarity to business requirements and help turn proposed changes into solutions that deliver measurable value.
If you are an experienced Business Analyst who enjoys solving complex business problems and bringing people and technology together, we’d be pleased to hear from you.
Pay: £50,000.00-£55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Paid volunteer time
- Sick pay
- Unlimited paid holidays
- Work from home
Work Location: In person
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