Business Analyst Manager

Business Analyst Manager (known internally as Senior Business Analyst)
12-month FTC, Full-time, maternity cover (37.5 hours)
Beeston, Nottingham: £57,526 - £60,553
Farringdon, London: £61,152 - £64,749

About Us: Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that 'everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well'; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

We are recruiting a Senior Business Analyst to sit within the Strategy, Projects and Performance team. This role will work on corporate projects with a wide range of stakeholders including Property, Development, Technical and Customer Services teams. The Senior Business Analyst role will deliver and support their team to deliver analysis work for highly complex and high-profile projects, supporting large strategic change at MTVH.

A key focus for the role will be to lead the MTVH Business Analyst framework. This is the framework that guides and governs how Business Analysts work at MTVH including templates, documents, process, tools and techniques. It also has the responsibility for creating and maintaining a Business Analyst community pulling together Business Analysts from all across MTVH.

This role has direct line management of the team of Business Analysts within the Projects and Planning team and will support the strategic planning function in resource planning and the creation of Business Analyst work packages.

What you'll need to succeed

• Proven experience of managing a team including through periods of change
• Expert knowledge and understanding of business analysis tools and techniques. An ability to clearly document business requirements and processes. You will need to be able to analyse data and requirements to provide insight and recommendations.
• Proven experience in large and complex organisational wide change projects.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to foster good working relationships with a wider range of stakeholders as this role works cross functionally. You will have experience of dealing with senior stakeholders and Executive Sponsors.
• You will have experience with building and developing a business analysis framework. This includes templates, documents, processes and a Business Analyst community. Proven experience as a line manager, being a mentor and role model for team members.
• You will need to either have direct or relatable business experience and an affinity to the work of social housing.

Interviews - MS Teams interviews will be scheduled from week commencing Monday 22 June

Metropolitan Thames Valley provides affordable housing for people living in London, the South East, East Midlands and East of England.

We also offer a range of care and support services. Our specialist areas include older people, mental health and transitional services which provide intensive support to marginalised or vulnerable people.

We deliver training programmes, events and activities for our residents, designed to boost employment opportunities and foster stronger communities.

A member of the National Housing Federation the G15 ? which represents London?s largest housing associations ? we influence policy for the benefits of our residents and the wider sector.

In October 2018 like minded housing associations Metropolitan and Thames Valley Housing formally completed a partnership to form Metropolitan Thames Valley. We came together because we want to improve the services we provide and do more in our communities. We?ll do this by listening to our customers and working alongside them.

Phone: (phone number removed)
Email: (url removed)