Senior Business Analyst - M365
Government Recruitment Service - Swindon
£58,478 to £64,743 a year
PermanentFull time
The Government Property Agency is changing the way the Civil Service works and is at the forefront of the Government's transformation agenda; reshaping the relationship civil servants have with their place of work. The Agency is central to the delivery of key Government policies and tackling climate change by contributing to the Net Zero agenda. To do this we are delivering a major change programme across the UK and consolidating our portfolio in order to save £1.4 Bn over 10 years. Beyond the bricks and mortar, the GPA is about providing great workplaces for our people. Through programmes like Hubs, Whitehall Campus and Smarter Working you will be in the vanguard of creating model working environments and promoting flexible working practices. This is an ambitious and exciting task, for which we need innovative people, with strong commercial acumen, who are passionate about visualising and implementing customer needs. Launched as an Executive Agency of the Cabinet Office in 2018, we’re a relatively new department and we are growing fast so we also need people who thrive in ambiguity, can adapt quickly to change and are comfortable stepping outside of their remit to drive outcomes. Are you ready to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of how we collaborate with our suppliers, partners, clients and customers? We are looking for an experienced and forward thinking Senior Business Analyst to lead the implementation of Microsoft 365 and the migration from Google Workspace across our organisation. This role will spearhead the implementation of cutting edge Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities using Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Copilot Studio to empower business users with intelligent automation and integrate with other enterprise platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow and Dynamics 365. This role will help with implementation of Microsoft Power Platform to design low-code/no-code solutions that streamline workflows and lead on the deployment of Microsoft Purview for data governance, Microsoft Defender for cloud app and endpoint security and Microsoft Sentinel to build a world-class SIEM/SOC. This role will be responsible for gathering business requirements, analysing business processes and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a smooth migration and successful deployment of all Microsoft 365 digital services. This role will involve strategic planning, and ensuring the alignment of the migration with business goals. If you are passionate about digital transformation, optimising business processes, and delivering innovative solutions using AI that drive tangible business outcomes, we want to hear from you! While This Role Matters: This is not just another migration project. This is your opportunity to: Lead a Mission-Critical Transformation - Play a key role in how our organisation adopts the tools that will define how we collaborate, innovate and operate for years to come. Drive Real Change - Work closely with key decision-makers to shape processes that will have a direct impact on business productivity, employee satisfaction, and our competitive edge in creating a truly digital employee experience. Empower the Workforce - Help us empower our teams by ensuring that they have access to the best tools and knowledge to succeed in the new digital workplace. If you are ready to lead a key digital transformation project and be a part of something big, we’d love to hear from you! This is your chance to lead change, innovate, and make a lasting impact on how our teams collaborate and succeed. Apply now and be the driver behind the transformation Key Responsibilities Business Analysis Requirements and Specifications (Functional & Technical) Elicit business, stakeholder and solution (functional/non-functional) requirements and prepare business requirements documents. Translate business needs into functional specifications for developers and solution architects, ensuring the technical implementation is aligned with business goals System and Data Migration Strategy Design and drive the overall strategy data and systems for migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365. Develop a comprehensive data inventory for migrating data (emails, documents and applications) from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 ensuring minimal disruption to business operations Change Impact Analysis Perform detailed assessments of the potential impact of the Microsoft 365 implementation on business processes, systems, data and roles. Leverage your analytical skills to perform gap analyses and provide data-driven recommendations that enhance productivity and support business objectives. Create a list of existing Identity Management / SSO integration with existing systems that will need to re-integrate with Microsoft 365 Entra ID (Active Directory). Information Governance - Compliance and Data Governance Ensure that the migration aligns with all applicable legal, regulatory and compliance standards. Work closely with security and legal teams to ensure information is governed effectively, including GDPR and data retention policies Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Identify key stakeholders across the organisation, create engagement plans, and communicate business impacts, project goals and progress effectively. Ensure alignment with business needs and foster a positive attitude towards change User Adoption and Training Collaborate with training teams to develop learning programs, tutorials, and workshops that will help users maximise their use of Microsoft 365 tools like SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams. Elevate user experience by ensuring that Microsoft 365 delivers an intuitive and seamless user experience by working with technical teams to design solutions that meet user requirements and enhance productivity.
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Deputy Director, Arts (Maternity Cover)
Government Recruitment Service - London
£86,000 to £86,000 a year
TemporaryFull time
We are looking for a high performing and motivated individual to lead the Arts Team as a maternity leave cover for up to one year. Responsibilities for the role include: Leadership of a c20 person team and a visible leadership role in the wider Culture Directorate as part of its Senior Management Team; Develop close and strong relationships with stakeholders across the arts sector, understanding their businesses and art forms and representing their interests across central government to improve the arts offering for citizens. Senior sponsorship of Arts Council England (ACE) – one of DCMS’s largest Arm’s Length Bodies. Sponsorship includes managing senior relationships and working closely with ACE on their strategic objectives and design and deliver of some of their core programmes. Sponsorship also includes oversight and assurance of their governance, budgets and representing theirs and the wider arts sectors’ interests at Spending Reviews and Fiscal events. Along with ACE, implementing the findings of the independent Review of the Arts Council. Developing future funding models and policy to ensure the sustainability of the arts sector – including acting as SRO at DCMS for a number of ACE delivered programmes, such as the £425m Creative Foundations Fund. Developing and delivering policy across government on core issues affecting the arts sector – including working with Department for Education on cultural education and skills policy, and on other core issues such as philanthropy, devolution, cultural taxation, among others.
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Case Manager, HEO, Perm, Liverpool/ Newport
Government Recruitment Service
£35,384 to £35,384 a year
PermanentFull time
Job Purpose As Case Manager, you will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of complex compliance cases in furtherance of the Commission’s statutory functions to identify and investigate apparent misconduct and mismanagement and abuse in charities; this will involve some of the Commission’s high-risk cases and those of interest to the public. You will be responsible for contributing to the work of the Protect team which includes ensuring that the Commission’s risk framework is properly applied for all cases, including statutory inquiries, and that the Commission’s legal powers are properly applied to protect charities and their property/assets from risk of, or ongoing, abuse. Your work will focus on regulatory matters where the matters are most complex, highest risk, and highest profile involving charities from across the sector. You will take proportionate action to address wrongdoing and prevent harm within and of the charity sector. Your effective management of these cases will have a significant impact on public perception and the Commission’s ability to build public trust and confidence in the charity sector. You will be accountable for the delivery of key performance indicators in terms of delivering casework outcomes, quality and consistency within a cycle of continuous improvement, all underpinned by our customer service ethos and principles. You will effectively use legal powers and a range of case strategies. Key Responsibilities: Management Responsibilities: Technical oversight and mentoring and/or line managing a team to deliver quality regulatory outcomes; may include complex HR issues. Manage Complex Work: Handles a varied and more complex caseload / workload within competing priorities; provides supervision and/or oversight of higher risk and novel work; works in line with guidance, business rules and legal requirements. Make and Record Evidence Based Decisions: Uses risk-based judgement to identify appropriate solutions and outcomes, briefing senior management when required; makes decisions independently, using evidence and analysis; works collaboratively with legal, accountancy and intelligence colleagues as appropriate, and where the issues are high risk or novel, seeks wider support. Engage Stakeholders Effectively: Where appropriate, ensures trustees understand and discharge their legal duties; considers use of legal powers where necessary to ensure compliance; ensures teams use multiple communication channels: written correspondence, calls, and face-to-face. Deliver Organisational Objectives: Contributes personally to the team’s outputs and successes; leads teams to meet performance and quality targets, role modelling the Commission’s and Civil Service values and behaviours. Work With External Partners: Collaborates proactively with other regulators, government departments, law enforcement and other stakeholders to deliver effective, high impact regulatory outcomes. Lead On and Implement Quality Assurance Standards: Undertakes reviews and/or assurance to assess against agreed quality standards. Provides feedback and contributes to Directorate-level continuous improvement, embedding lessons learned. Take Ownership of Development: Develops a broad range of skills across the job family and identifies and shares good practice proactively; identifies development opportunities and seeks support and input where appropriate.
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Business Analyst
Government Recruitment Service - Belfast
£44,913 to £53,230 a year
PermanentFull time
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) helps businesses invest, innovate, export and grow across the UK. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate helps to deliver this by designing, building and running the services, platforms and technology that businesses and colleagues rely on every day. Our teams work on a wide range of services and technologies, including: digital services that help businesses access government support, guidance and opportunities data and AI products that support decision making and enable innovation internal tools and services that help colleagues work more effectively secure technology and platforms that support critical government services cyber security services that protect systems, data and users By joining DDaT, you'll work on services used by businesses, colleagues and citizens across the UK. You'll be part of multidisciplinary teams focused on improving services, solving complex problems and delivering better outcomes for users. We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace. In recognition of this, we were named Best Public Sector Employer at the Women in Tech Employer Awards 2025! Are you passionate about solving complex problems, improving digital services, and making a real impact for users and businesses? Our Business Analysts identify and draw upon a variety of evidence to define, analyse and document challenging business problems and user needs. They lead on mapping how user and organisational needs align with the business architecture and fit with the service vision and business strategy. You’ll work within agile, multidisciplinary teams to ensure product decisions are grounded in robust business analysis. Your work will help align user needs with organisational goals, enabling the delivery of inclusive and accessible digital services. You will collaborate with service owners, product managers, delivery leads, user-centred design colleagues and technical specialists to define and document business problems, user needs and opportunities for improvement. You will be encouraged to challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose. Effective skills in facilitating collaboration and communication with all stakeholders will be key to support the design, build and delivery of products and services that meet user needs. You will support the Head of Profession to build a sustainable, diverse, and engaged Business Analyst community within BIST. You will do this by actively engaging in the Business Analyst community who work together towards a common goal and share ideas openly, establishing standards and consistency to support rapid delivery through sharing and learning from one another. Read more about what it is like to become a business analyst in DDaT in our blog. Main responsibilities You will: Investigate, analyse and articulate business and user problems, identifying opportunities and providing recommendations to address them Collaborate effectively with stakeholders, and project teams to define measures of success for user-centred improvements, supporting prioritisation decisions that align with policy and organisational goals Define and document requirements, using models and frameworks to build shared understanding and inform decision-making Conduct business analysis activities across one or more workstreams, collaborating within your multidisciplinary team to shape the design and delivery of digital services that meet user and business needs Conduct business process analysis and re-engineering, producing clear and accessible documentation to support service improvements Translate user and business needs into actionable user stories and measurable outcomes that guide design, development, testing and adoption Help cultivate a collaborative, inclusive culture by sharing knowledge, and supporting continuous learning and development through active engagement in the Business Analyst Community of Practice
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Assistant Director Strategic Finance
Government Recruitment Service - Southampton
£69,501 to £69,501 a year
PermanentFull time
Do you have significant experience of financial strategy and planning? Have you led high-performing finance teams and influenced senior stakeholders to support effective decision making? If so, we’d love to hear from you! The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is seeking an Assistant Director Strategic Finance to provide strategic focus and oversight of the Agency’s finances. Working within the Finance and Analysis Directorate, you will help ensure MCA’s c.£500m total budget is deployed efficiently, robust budget control is maintained and value for money is achieved. This is a senior leadership role, reporting to the Director of Finance and Analysis and leading teams responsible for financial strategy and finance business partnering. Joining our department comes with many benefits, including: Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance. Read more in the Benefits section below! Find out more about what it's like working at: Maritime and Coastguard Agency - Department for Transport Careers As Assistant Director Strategic Finance, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight of MCA’s financial plans, ensuring strong budget control, high-quality financial analysis and effective advice to senior stakeholders. You will lead the Strategic Finance function, support investment and funding decisions, and help shape a high-performing, continuously improving finance culture. Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to: Leading MCA’s Financial Strategy and Finance Business Partner teams, embedding a high-performance culture. Providing strategic financial advice and analysis to senior stakeholders to support effective decision making. Negotiating and secure investment and resource funding for key Agency activities and major change programmes. Ensuring robust resource and capital financial plans are aligned to organisational priorities and HM Treasury guidance. Overseeing the reporting of accurate and timely financial management information and analysis to drive efficiency and value-added insight. Leading MCA’s efficiency strategy, establishing clear controls, accountability and monitoring arrangements. Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing and challenging decision making where appropriate. Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public. For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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Senior Performance Analyst
Government Recruitment Service
£57,946 to £75,497 a year
PermanentFull time
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. As a Senior Performance Analyst, you set the highest standards in quality analysis to ensure services that meet the Government’s Digital by Default Service Standard. You are responsible for delivering high-quality and innovative analysis in relation to digital services and maximising the value of the Department’s data and contributing to the development of new skills and procedures within the Performance Analyst community. The key purpose of this role is to deliver and improve data collection, performance reporting and analytical insight for the digital services. You provide analysis, tell data stories and build relationships that drive evidence based decision making and create/maintain a data-driven performance culture for the Department’s digital services. Work with service teams to translate business requirements into clear analytical questions and deliver data driven solutions that support decision making and service improvement. Lead the collection, analysis and interpretation of digital performance data, providing actionable insights and compelling narratives to inform user centred design and product development. Develop, configure and assure digital analytics solutions, ensuring high quality data collection, reporting and compliance with departmental and statistical standards. Design and evaluate experiments, including A/B and multivariate testing, ensuring findings are robust, evidence based and statistically valid. Identify, integrate and exploit new data sources, technologies and analytical techniques to enhance insight generation and maximise the value of digital analytics. Provide expert advice and constructive challenge to stakeholders, helping teams refine analytical requirements and make informed strategic and operational decisions. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and analytical professions to maintain data integrity, resolve reporting issues and promote the effective use of performance analytics. Establish and promote best practice across digital performance analytics, driving continuous improvement, innovation and a culture of learning and evidence based decision making.
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Financial Cost Modeller
Government Recruitment Service - Bristol
£49,850 to £56,850 a year
PermanentFull time
The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports. The Public Safety Group’s role is to keep the public safe by cutting crime, disrupting the highest harm criminals, protecting the vulnerable and ensuring that our police, fire and rescue services are as efficient and effective as they can be in delivering front line public services. We work with our partners in other government departments, local government and the voluntary sector to develop and implement policy, provide funding, and deliver legislation. The Home Office is leading a pan departmental, cross government programme to deliver the new Emergency Services Network (ESN) critical communications system. This will replace the current Airwave service used by the emergency services in Great Britain. The strategic aim of the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) is to deliver a much better voice and data service to emergency services replacing the reliable but limited and ageing Airwave system. The cost modelling team are part of the Programme Finance team and own the financial cost model that underpins the Programme Business Case (which has a whole life cost of £19.1bn) and the financial performance of key commercial contracts. This role is critical to maintaining the financial model and in supporting key procurement activity pre and post award of contracts along with running scenarios of potential outcomes. The successful candidate will work with key stakeholders to understand cost drivers for the model and provide financial briefings to stakeholders. The successful candidate will need to be an experienced modeller with a background in estimating, finance, economics or operational research used to working in a complex environment with multiple stakeholders.
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Deputy Director, Arts (Maternity Cover)
Government Recruitment Service - Manchester
£86,000 to £86,000 a year
TemporaryFull time
We are looking for a high performing and motivated individual to lead the Arts Team as a maternity leave cover for up to one year. Responsibilities for the role include: Leadership of a c20 person team and a visible leadership role in the wider Culture Directorate as part of its Senior Management Team; Develop close and strong relationships with stakeholders across the arts sector, understanding their businesses and art forms and representing their interests across central government to improve the arts offering for citizens. Senior sponsorship of Arts Council England (ACE) – one of DCMS’s largest Arm’s Length Bodies. Sponsorship includes managing senior relationships and working closely with ACE on their strategic objectives and design and deliver of some of their core programmes. Sponsorship also includes oversight and assurance of their governance, budgets and representing theirs and the wider arts sectors’ interests at Spending Reviews and Fiscal events. Along with ACE, implementing the findings of the independent Review of the Arts Council. Developing future funding models and policy to ensure the sustainability of the arts sector – including acting as SRO at DCMS for a number of ACE delivered programmes, such as the £425m Creative Foundations Fund. Developing and delivering policy across government on core issues affecting the arts sector – including working with Department for Education on cultural education and skills policy, and on other core issues such as philanthropy, devolution, cultural taxation, among others.
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Business Analyst
Government Recruitment Service - Birmingham
£44,913 to £53,230 a year
PermanentFull time
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) helps businesses invest, innovate, export and grow across the UK. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate helps to deliver this by designing, building and running the services, platforms and technology that businesses and colleagues rely on every day. Our teams work on a wide range of services and technologies, including: digital services that help businesses access government support, guidance and opportunities data and AI products that support decision making and enable innovation internal tools and services that help colleagues work more effectively secure technology and platforms that support critical government services cyber security services that protect systems, data and users By joining DDaT, you'll work on services used by businesses, colleagues and citizens across the UK. You'll be part of multidisciplinary teams focused on improving services, solving complex problems and delivering better outcomes for users. We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace. In recognition of this, we were named Best Public Sector Employer at the Women in Tech Employer Awards 2025! Are you passionate about solving complex problems, improving digital services, and making a real impact for users and businesses? Our Business Analysts identify and draw upon a variety of evidence to define, analyse and document challenging business problems and user needs. They lead on mapping how user and organisational needs align with the business architecture and fit with the service vision and business strategy. You’ll work within agile, multidisciplinary teams to ensure product decisions are grounded in robust business analysis. Your work will help align user needs with organisational goals, enabling the delivery of inclusive and accessible digital services. You will collaborate with service owners, product managers, delivery leads, user-centred design colleagues and technical specialists to define and document business problems, user needs and opportunities for improvement. You will be encouraged to challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose. Effective skills in facilitating collaboration and communication with all stakeholders will be key to support the design, build and delivery of products and services that meet user needs. You will support the Head of Profession to build a sustainable, diverse, and engaged Business Analyst community within BIST. You will do this by actively engaging in the Business Analyst community who work together towards a common goal and share ideas openly, establishing standards and consistency to support rapid delivery through sharing and learning from one another. Read more about what it is like to become a business analyst in DDaT in our blog. Main responsibilities You will: Investigate, analyse and articulate business and user problems, identifying opportunities and providing recommendations to address them Collaborate effectively with stakeholders, and project teams to define measures of success for user-centred improvements, supporting prioritisation decisions that align with policy and organisational goals Define and document requirements, using models and frameworks to build shared understanding and inform decision-making Conduct business analysis activities across one or more workstreams, collaborating within your multidisciplinary team to shape the design and delivery of digital services that meet user and business needs Conduct business process analysis and re-engineering, producing clear and accessible documentation to support service improvements Translate user and business needs into actionable user stories and measurable outcomes that guide design, development, testing and adoption Help cultivate a collaborative, inclusive culture by sharing knowledge, and supporting continuous learning and development through active engagement in the Business Analyst Community of Practice
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Business Analyst
Government Recruitment Service - Cardiff
£44,913 to £53,230 a year
PermanentFull time
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) helps businesses invest, innovate, export and grow across the UK. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate helps to deliver this by designing, building and running the services, platforms and technology that businesses and colleagues rely on every day. Our teams work on a wide range of services and technologies, including: digital services that help businesses access government support, guidance and opportunities data and AI products that support decision making and enable innovation internal tools and services that help colleagues work more effectively secure technology and platforms that support critical government services cyber security services that protect systems, data and users By joining DDaT, you'll work on services used by businesses, colleagues and citizens across the UK. You'll be part of multidisciplinary teams focused on improving services, solving complex problems and delivering better outcomes for users. We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace. In recognition of this, we were named Best Public Sector Employer at the Women in Tech Employer Awards 2025! Are you passionate about solving complex problems, improving digital services, and making a real impact for users and businesses? Our Business Analysts identify and draw upon a variety of evidence to define, analyse and document challenging business problems and user needs. They lead on mapping how user and organisational needs align with the business architecture and fit with the service vision and business strategy. You’ll work within agile, multidisciplinary teams to ensure product decisions are grounded in robust business analysis. Your work will help align user needs with organisational goals, enabling the delivery of inclusive and accessible digital services. You will collaborate with service owners, product managers, delivery leads, user-centred design colleagues and technical specialists to define and document business problems, user needs and opportunities for improvement. You will be encouraged to challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose. Effective skills in facilitating collaboration and communication with all stakeholders will be key to support the design, build and delivery of products and services that meet user needs. You will support the Head of Profession to build a sustainable, diverse, and engaged Business Analyst community within BIST. You will do this by actively engaging in the Business Analyst community who work together towards a common goal and share ideas openly, establishing standards and consistency to support rapid delivery through sharing and learning from one another. Read more about what it is like to become a business analyst in DDaT in our blog. Main responsibilities You will: Investigate, analyse and articulate business and user problems, identifying opportunities and providing recommendations to address them Collaborate effectively with stakeholders, and project teams to define measures of success for user-centred improvements, supporting prioritisation decisions that align with policy and organisational goals Define and document requirements, using models and frameworks to build shared understanding and inform decision-making Conduct business analysis activities across one or more workstreams, collaborating within your multidisciplinary team to shape the design and delivery of digital services that meet user and business needs Conduct business process analysis and re-engineering, producing clear and accessible documentation to support service improvements Translate user and business needs into actionable user stories and measurable outcomes that guide design, development, testing and adoption Help cultivate a collaborative, inclusive culture by sharing knowledge, and supporting continuous learning and development through active engagement in the Business Analyst Community of Practice
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