Junior Business Analyst- Manchester, Leeds or Birmingham

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Business Analyst to work for our client within the Public sector. This is initially a 5-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that can be based in either of the following offices: Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham.

Responsibilities: 

• Requirements Gathering – Lead the exploration and collection of business needs aligned to project objectives, assessing the necessity and value of the activity within its specific context.
• Process Mapping – Where applicable, utilize various tools and methods to document current (‘As-Is’) and future (‘To-Be’) business processes.
• Gap Identification – Compare current operations with desired outcomes to pinpoint areas for improvement and define the business requirements essential for successful change.
• Impact Assessment – Examine the implications of proposed changes, estimating required adjustments and identifying affected stakeholders, while aligning with the broader project scope.
• Stakeholder Engagement – Collaborate with business owners, change leads, and end users to ensure alignment and shared understanding throughout delivery.
• Facilitation – Partner with business stakeholders to uncover and clarify their needs.
• Systems Analysis – Oversee systems analysis activities to ensure timely translation of business requirements into technical solutions, working closely with technical leads.
• Business Improvement – Coordinate with Business Improvement teams to identify and implement enhancements to business-as-usual operations, ensuring project benefits are realized.
• Solution Design – Work alongside policy and strategy teams to ensure systems, workflows, and processes support the target operating model.
• Delivery Tools and Documentation – Support change delivery through comprehensive documentation and frameworks, including methodologies, operating models, functional specs, use cases, user stories, UAT plans and strategies, entry/exit criteria, defect logs, templates, guidance, and business cases.
• Risk Management – Proactively identify and assess risks, issues, and opportunities across all Business Analyst activities.

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience
• Ability to lead the identification and evaluation of business needs, ensuring alignment with project goals and assessing the value of proposed changes through gap and impact analysis.
• Proven experience in building strong relationships with business owners, change leads, and users to collaboratively define needs and maintain alignment throughout the project lifecycle.

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 2,500 Employees. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index. 

Diversity and Inclusion  

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.