IT Business Analyst
Job description
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Daily Rate: £425 per day outside IR35
Location: Hybrid (1 day a week on-site in South Wales)
Type: Contract
We’re looking for an experienced IT Business Analyst who’s confident leading the early stages of projects—shaping ideas, defining scope, and turning high-level goals into clear, actionable requirements. If you enjoy working with stakeholders, getting clarity from complexity, and helping projects get approved and ready to kick off, this role will suit you well.
What you’ll be doing
- Defining project objectives and scope from the outset.
- Working closely with project sponsors to capture and document IT and business requirements.
- Collaborating with IT Technical Architects to match requirements to suitable solutions.
- Managing supplier tender processes or working with procurement frameworks to source technology solutions.
- Preparing investment papers that summarise project aims, costs, risks, timelines, and forecasts for sign-off.
- Running workshops and other sessions to gather and record requirements.
- Managing multiple projects at once and helping drive timely decisions.
What you’ll bring
- Strong experience as a Business Analyst with solid core BA skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Confidence working independently and prioritising your own workload.
- Good listening skills and the ability to adapt in a largely remote working setup.
- Determination to push for and secure decisions from senior stakeholders.
Key skills
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Application advice
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⭐ Lead your CV personal statement with 'IT Business Analyst' and explicitly reference outside IR35 contracting experience, as the advert targets contractors familiar with that status.
📊 Quantify your requirements-gathering work: e.g. 'Facilitated 12 discovery workshops across 3 business units, producing a 40-page requirements specification approved within 2 weeks'.
🎯 Highlight investment paper and business case writing as a dedicated bullet — the advert specifically calls out preparing papers covering costs, risks, timelines and forecasts for senior sign-off.
🌐 Emphasise experience managing supplier tenders or public-sector procurement frameworks (e.g. G-Cloud, CCS), as sourcing technology solutions is a named responsibility.
🤝 Demonstrate stakeholder influence at senior level: cite examples where you drove decisions from project sponsors or senior leadership, mirroring the advert's phrase 'push for and secure decisions'.
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- •Defined scope and documented IT requirements for 8 concurrent infrastructure projects, producing investment papers that secured board approval within an average of 3 weeks per project.
- •Facilitated 15 stakeholder workshops across 4 business units to elicit and validate requirements, reducing rework cycles by 30% prior to solution design handover to Technical Architects.
- •Managed a full supplier tender process under CCS procurement framework, evaluating 6 vendors and delivering a recommendation paper that resulted in a £1.2M technology contract award on schedule.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Reed's IT Business Analyst contract in Newport aligns directly with the work I do best: shaping early-stage projects by turning ambiguous goals into documented, approvable requirements. My experience preparing investment papers for senior sign-off and managing supplier tender processes means I can contribute from day one without a lengthy ramp-up period.
My background in business analysis spans requirements workshops, scope definition, and close collaboration with IT Technical Architects to match business needs to viable solutions. I have managed multiple concurrent projects in largely remote contract environments, consistently securing timely decisions from project sponsors by maintaining clear communication and structured documentation throughout.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk us through your end-to-end process for capturing and documenting IT requirements from a project sponsor who has only a high-level idea.
- ›How do you collaborate with IT Technical Architects to ensure requirements map to technically feasible solutions?
- ›Describe your experience managing a supplier tender process — which procurement frameworks have you worked within?
- ›What does a well-structured investment paper look like to you, and what sections do you consider non-negotiable for senior sign-off?
- ›How do you manage scope creep when working across multiple concurrent projects at the early definition stage?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to get clarity from a highly ambiguous or conflicting set of stakeholder requirements.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to push senior stakeholders to make a decision that was stalling a project.
- ›Give an example of managing several projects simultaneously — how did you prioritise and keep each moving forward?
- ›Tell me about a workshop you facilitated that didn't go as planned and how you recovered it.
- ›Describe a time you worked largely independently on a remote contract — how did you maintain visibility and trust with the client?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you had to get clarity from a highly ambiguous or conflicting set of stakeholder requirements.
Describe a situation where you had to push senior stakeholders to make a decision that was stalling a project.