About the Role
<strong id="jmfe-label-job_benefits" class="jmfe-custom-field-label" >Job Benefits:</strong> <strong id="jmfe-custom-job_benefits" class="jmfe-custom-field " >Outside IR35</strong><p>A well-known Academy Trust is seeking to recruit a Senior Business Analyst for a 3 month contract, £550/day outside IR35, predominantly remote with occasional travel into London. </p>
<p>The Academy is part way through a significant data and analytics transformation. The foundational data platform (Azure Databricks, Power BI, Azure Integration Services) is built and live. The next phase is business activation, translating a group-wide KPI framework into agreed metrics, reporting structures and data use cases across four domains: Education, HR, Finance, and Sales & Marketing.</p>
<p>This work runs in parallel across domains and needs consistent, structured facilitation to land well.</p>
<p><strong>The Role</strong></p>
<p>We are looking for a Senior BA to lead discovery and alignment work across the programme. This is not a technical role – it manages business stakeholder engagement, requirements definition and programme coordination.</p>
<p>The Senior Business Analyst will work across domain workstreams, ensuring consistency of approach, quality of outputs and momentum across a complex multi-stakeholder environment.</p>
<p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Plan and facilitate domain alignment sessions with senior business stakeholders (Cluster MDs, Principals, functional leads)</li>
<li>Define and document KPIs, business definitions, data requirements and use case priorities per domain</li>
<li>Maintain a consolidated view of progress, decisions and open items across all domains</li>
<li>Feed outputs into the data and delivery team to inform platform prioritisation and roadmap</li>
<li>Support preparation of materials for ELT and board-level reporting</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Ideal Background</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Proven experience in complex stakeholder environments</li>
<li>Able to run structured workshops with C-suite and operational leaders</li>
<li>Experience in education, professional services or similarly complex multi-site organisations preferred but not essential</li>
<li>Familiarity with data and analytics programmes with an understanding of KPI frameworks, reporting requirements and data governance</li>
<li>Strong facilitation, documentation and communication skills</li>
<li>Self-starter in an environment still maturing its data capability</li>
</ul>
<p>If interested in this role, please apply today. This role will be to start in May.</p>
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