Business Analyst - FTC - 3 Days a week onsite in Newcastle

Job Description: Strong and proven business analysis capability across requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and management. Ability to independently understand complex business problems and lead the translation of business needs into high‑quality requirements and solution designs. Extensive experience producing and assuring business analysis artefacts including user stories, functional and non‑functional requirements, process models, business rules, and data specifications. Confident application of structured analysis and solution design techniques (e.g. UML, BPMN, process modelling, and business impact assessment) to complex change initiatives. Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to shape recommendations, validate requirements, and influence decision‑making. Proven ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders, facilitating alignment across business and technology teams. Extensive experience leading business impact assessments and clearly articulating change impacts, dependencies, and risks. Experience leading, coaching, and/or mentoring other business analysts, setting clear direction, assuring quality of outcomes, and supporting capability development within the team. Strong experience operating within Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and/or Waterfall delivery environments, shaping analysis approaches to suit delivery context. Ability to lead backlog refinement and prioritisation activities, ensuring alignment to value, risk, and delivery dependencies. Experience providing direction and support across testing phases, including complex defect triage and resolution. Confident use of tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and Excel to drive analysis, reporting, and delivery outcomes