Business Analyst (12 Month - FTC)

Location: London Salary: 53000 Posted Date: 28 Apr 2025 Closing Date: 29 Jul 2025

Join Elexon as a Business Analyst and drive impactful change through innovation, insight, and collaboration.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst (Grade 10) to join the Change Practices team ona 12 - month fixed - term contract.

Team Overview:

The Change Practices team is responsible as a whole for the Transformation and Change capability, and eachpractice area is responsible for promoting best practice and maturity of processes in their area.

The BA Practice team sits within the Change Practices Team to:

• Provide a Business Analysis resource pool for complex changes
• Lead the BA Community of Practice to define, maintain and embed a framework for best practice in businessanalysis; and
• Assure the quality of requirements production as required across Elexon

Job Purpose:

• Business analysts are responsible for creating a shared understanding of the initiative for successfulinitiatives, e.g. by creating investment cases, defining the problem/opportunity, requirements and businesschange activities using their broad range of knowledge in the BA domain and understanding of other areas
  within the business.
  • Business analysts independently create the required analysis artefacts and deliverables as required by themethodology (e.g. Agile, waterfall or hybrid methodologies).
  • For BSC Change, Business Analysts liaise with the Change Team in order to support BSC Changeprocesses, which can range from advice, guidance, techniques to other requirements authors, or theproduction of business and detailed requirements for complex changes or assurance of these requirements.
  • Business analysts work closely with Product Teams and Market Designers and Architecture colleagues whoare experts in the electricity market arrangements and enterprise architecture. They also interact closelywith colleagues from the wider Elexon business.
  • Business Analysts work closely with the supplier development team to gain an understanding of the currentsolutions and the best methods to implement the required change within the existing solution with limiteddirection.
  • Business Analysts will be familiar with applying a range of techniques to analyse, clarify and communicatethe business problem, benefits, business requirements and detailed requirements.
  • In particular they will ask the right questions to understand the real business need or problem andeffectively collaborate with colleagues at all levels to solve these problems.
  • Business analysts will ensure that agreed standards and methods are applied to ensure consistency, re-use, scalability and alignment of requirements and analysis artefacts across product and project teams andcontribute to the improvement of standards within the team and business processes as a whole.

• Plan and agree the approach for business analysis activities and deliverables for the allocated initiative andbe accountable for independent completion of tasks and activities to achieve the planned approach.
  • Develop investment cases for initiatives in line with Elexon's strategy and roadmaps, presenting options asrequired.
  • Elicit, analyse, define, document and communicate the business requirements using in-depth knowledge ofthe BA tools and techniques to create a shared understanding amongst business and technical stakeholdersto enable the implementation of an effective solution with low levels of direction from reporting manager.
  • Collaborate with team members (internal or from service providers) to understand the existing solution andensure that the requirements are drafted for the proposed solution to meet the business outcomes
  • Help communicate the business impact of the complex initiative, and ensure that everyone involvedunderstands the requirements and how the provided solution would addresses them
  • Identify and engage appropriately with all stakeholders, including industry stakeholders where relevant
  • Develop BA Practice capability by applying, sharing and embedding best practice, creating templates,embedding techniques
  • Apply standards and methods to ensure consistency, re-use, scalability and alignment of requirements andanalysis artefacts across product, change and project teams
  • Ensure requirements and solutions are aligned with Elexon's enterprise architecture principles and targetarchitectures
  • Assure as required the business analysis undertaken by less experienced business analysts and thatundertaken by other requirements authors e.g. Market Designers and Change Assessment Teamcolleagues is in-line with the expected outcomes
  • Be proactive and propose tasks and deliverables that have not been considered by the project or productteam that are required for successful delivery
  • Lead Elexon's Business Analysis Community of Practice in conjunction with the BA Practice Team
  • Participate in department or cross-company projects and initiatives. Using T-shaped skills to facilitateworkshops and sessions as required to get to a consensus on the next steps.
  • Contribute to the review, development, improvement and communication of team policies, processes andprocedures
  • Apply acquired knowledge of related roles to cover other roles in smaller initiatives
• Proactively contribute to improvements to the business processes adopted within projects or products thatwould result in operational time or cost savings.
  • Provide key analysis in the triage process to determine resolutions to problems with the existing solution

Capabilities and competencies:
Critical:

• Self-motivated, proactive and takes ownership ofsuccessful business outcomes.
  • Able to solve business problems, adapt to thebusiness environment and be resilient when facedwith challenges.
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity
  • Strong facilitation, collaboration and influencingskills.
  • Familiar with the software development life cycle anddifferent approaches such as waterfall and Agile
  • Proficient in a range of business analysistechniques, standards and methods
  • Energy / finance background - mathematicalbackground or strong understanding of formulaswould be a strong benefit.
  • Able to quickly gain domain knowledge.
  • Able to build and maintain relationships with avariety of stakeholders.
  • Able to understand, simplify and communicatecomplex processes / business process re-engineering.
  • Able to elicit, document, analyse complex businessrequirements including calculations.
  • Experience in requirement and process definition,analysis, modelling
• Recognised business analysis qualification e.g. BCSDiploma in Business Analysis or IIBA CCBA orCBAP
  • Familiar with enterprise architecture tools (e.g.Orbus), Agile tools (e.g. JIRA/Azure DevOps).
  • Experience in digital transformation - legacysystems to modern architecture patterns (e.g. microservices /data hubs)
  • Experience in developing business cases / defininginitiatives.
  • Experience in developing customer journeys

Elexon career path / Potential next role(s):

• 28 days annual holiday + Bank Holidays
• Discretionary annual incentive scheme
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Private medical (Bupa)

At Elexon, our employee wellbeing is particularly important to us, which is why we are proud to provide:

• Hybrid working - 2 days per week at our London office
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Eye care voucher scheme
• Subsidised gym membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Buying & selling holiday scheme
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) days
• Season ticket loan

We believe a diverse and inclusive culture allows innovation and creativity to flourish. We are committed to continuously improving our culture for our colleagues and stakeholders. Through our hugely successful Diversity Forum, Mental Health First Aid network and regular programme of activities and events, we celebrate difference and recognise the value of employee wellbeing, which is a consistent outcome from annual employee surveys that we conduct. Likewise, as a community, we like to support each other, and all agree Elexon is a great place to work with a great workspace too!

At Elexon, we want to:

• Provide true equality of opportunity
• Attract and retain diverse talent
• Listen to all voices
• Be representative of the communities we work in
• Be a role model for Diversity and Inclusion in the industry

Elexon together, embracing differences, listening to all voices