Senior Business Analyst

Why Southwark?

Southwark Council is delivering a major programme of change to improve outcomes for residents while ensuring services remain financially sustainable.

The Change team within Strategy & Communities leads a cross-council portfolio of transformation work focused on improving services, redesigning processes and delivering savings. The team combines programme management, delivery management, service design, business analysis and PMO capability to support services across the council to deliver change effectively.

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to lead analytical work across complex change initiatives within this portfolio.

What You'll Be Doing

In this role you will:

• Lead business analysis across transformation projects.
• Work with services to understand current processes, issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop process maps, requirements and problem statements.
• Support the development of options, business cases and delivery plans.
• Work closely with service designers and delivery leads to shape practical solutions.
• Use data and insight to create solutions including cost efficiencies
• Ensure changes are clearly defined and deliver measurable benefits.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for someone who has:

• Extensive experience in business analysis within complex organisations.
• Strong skills in requirements gathering, process mapping and problem analysis.
• Experience supporting transformation or improvement programmes.
• The ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.

Additional Information

Advert close date: 11:59pm on Sunday 26th April 2026

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

SWCINT

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

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