Senior Business Analyst- London or Leeds

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Senior Business Analyst with Active SC to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 3-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a remote role that will be based in London or Leeds.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support the delivery of strategic technology and business transformation initiatives within a secure government environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in engaging stakeholders, capturing and prioritising requirements, defining business benefits, and supporting the implementation of emerging technologies including AI-driven solutions, API management platforms, and enterprise data management capabilities.

This position requires a proactive and commercially minded Business Analyst with strong stakeholder management skills and experience working across complex enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activities across multiple workstreams and programmes.
• Engage with business and technical stakeholders to elicit, analyse, document, and validate requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions to gather business needs and translate them into actionable deliverables.
• Capture and prioritise requirements related to service performance, SLA measurement, operational reporting, and dashboard development.
• Support the definition, tracking, and realisation of business benefits throughout programme delivery.
• Work collaboratively with architects, product teams, delivery managers, and technical specialists to ensure business requirements align with strategic objectives.
• Produce high-quality business analysis artefacts including business requirements documents, process maps, user stories, operating models, and impact assessments.
• Identify gaps, risks, dependencies, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Support governance and decision-making through clear documentation and stakeholder communication.