Senior Business Analyst

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. 

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.

This work runs in parallel across domains and needs consistent, structured facilitation to land well.

The Role

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.

The Senior Business Analyst will work across domain workstreams, ensuring consistency of approach, quality of outputs and momentum across a complex multi-stakeholder environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate domain alignment sessions with senior business stakeholders (Cluster MDs, Principals, functional leads)
• Define and document KPIs, business definitions, data requirements and use case priorities per domain
• Maintain a consolidated view of progress, decisions and open items across all domains
• Feed outputs into the data and delivery team to inform platform prioritisation and roadmap
• Support preparation of materials for ELT and board-level reporting

Ideal Background

• Proven experience in complex stakeholder environments
• Able to run structured workshops with C-suite and operational leaders
• Experience in education, professional services or similarly complex multi-site organisations preferred but not essential
• Familiarity with data and analytics programmes with an understanding of KPI frameworks, reporting requirements and data governance
• Strong facilitation, documentation and communication skills
• Self-starter in an environment still maturing its data capability

If interested in this role, please apply today. This role will be to start in May.

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