Lead HR Business Analyst

Lead HR Business Analyst

Location: Reading or Dublin (Hybrid)

Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35 if UK‑based)

Duration: Initial 6 Months

Below covers everything you need to know about what this opportunity entails, as well as what is expected from applicants.

No agency support required

Role Overview

This senior role sits within a large-scale, multi‑year HR transformation programme. The Lead HR Business Analyst will shape core HR processes, guide requirements definition across multiple workstreams, and oversee a team of Business Analysts delivering analysis for a global technology rollout. The role requires someone with extensive HR transformation experience, strong analytical leadership, and the ability to balance global standardisation with local market needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of up to six Business Analysts, providing day‑to‑day direction, quality assurance, coaching, and subject‑matter guidance.
• Own the analysis approach for assigned HR domains, ensuring high‑quality requirements, process maps, and documentation.
• Work directly on complex or high‑impact areas of analysis, particularly where deep HR process knowledge is required.
• Partner with HR, Technology, and market stakeholders to capture, challenge, and refine business needs across multiple regions.
• Drive alignment to global HR processes while managing localisation requests and ensuring decisions are well‑governed.
• Support global design, testing, change impact assessment, and readiness activities across multiple markets.
• Ensure consistency and traceability across requirements, processes, and design artefacts produced by the BA team.
• Contribute to programme planning, risk management, and cross‑workstream coordination.

About You

• 8–10+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, with significant exposure to multiple HR transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of core HR processes (e.g., Talent, Learning, Performance, Core HR, Recruitment).
• Proven experience leading and developing a team of Business Analysts in a complex programme environment.
• Expert in requirements capture, requirements definition, and process mapping, with a track record of producing high‑quality artefacts.
• Experience working on global technology rollouts across multiple markets, including managing the tension between global standardisation and local market needs.
• Confident operating in fast‑paced, matrixed environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities. xwzovoh
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.