Lead Business Process Analyst - Bank of England

Bank of England and Inspire People are partnering together to attract two high-calibre Lead Business Process Analysts with expert process mapping skills using BPMN to help deliver a major transformation programme, leading on Process Improvement and Process Operating Model work within their Technology business function. You will play a pivotal role in an organisation at the front row for the digitalisation of the financial sector and the UK economy. Up to £80k basic plus excellent benefits including a 8% cash benefits allowance, an annual bonus and a non-contributory pension. Hybrid working opportunities are available with 2 days a week working from the Bank's London site. 12 Months Fixed Term Contract.

The Bank takes pride in its people with backgrounds and experiences as diverse as the solutions they provide. You'll enjoy flexible working opportunities, a strong sense of community, well-being and a collective mission to promote the good of the people of the UK, all of which add up to make the Bank a hugely rewarding place to work.

Lead Business Process Analysts will work on a critical change project that sits within the Central Services function and will be instrumental in analysing and documenting change requirements using advanced Business Analyst skills. They will communicate and challenge both functional and technical stakeholders to elicit and remove efficiencies to improve the business processes and transform the customer experience. As this is a Lead and a stand-alone Business Process Analyst role working within a functional department, you will need to have a deep understanding of Business Process techniques including BPMN, Lean/Six Sigma and exceptional communication skills.

As a Lead Business Process Analyst within the Bank, role responsibilities will be to:

• Act as the accountable person for all the business process related issues on the transformation programme
• Provide support to the Technology business function on the direction the project needs to take by providing informed insight on a variety of topics
• Draw on understanding of People's and Technology's roadmaps to shape business processes to ensure the right outcome, for example simplifying and removing inefficiencies.
• Bring together a joined-up view of business processes that may impact multiple business areas, for example process hierarchies and traceability to other artefacts.
• Review business processes before they are sent to senior stakeholders to ensure accuracy and consistency and alignment to wider strategic aims.
• Run the end-to-end approach to business process analysis and design on the Project.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrable experience of showing strong career development as a Process Expert
• Detailed understanding of BPMN 2.0 and its application.
• Experience of working with cross-functional teams to map complex processes, identifying pain points and bottlenecks.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills at all levels including leading workshops with senior stakeholders to extract key information.
• Experience of managing complexity, change and having an awareness of the associated technical impacts to the organisation
• Highly collaborative attitude and team working skills to facilitate expert opinions (such as with Architects, security consultants, Technology domain leads etc.) communicating these to functional, non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to multi-task and work in an environment with multiple reporting lines.
• Process Certifications (Six Sigma / Lean or equivalent)

In addition to the base salary of £80,000, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
• An annual discretionary performance award based on a current award pool (10%-25%)
• A 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 25 days annual leave with option to buy up to 13 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection
• Extensive tailored learning and development opportunities

For more information, please contact Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People, who is engaged on an exclusive basis by the Bank of England, or apply now.