Senior Business Analyst - Data Quality and Validation

Your new company

Hays are partnered with a leading public sector organisation who is looking to appoint an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a key data quality improvement programme. Working within a collaborative and data-focused environment, you'll play a pivotal role in helping the organisation improve the quality, consistency and reliability of information received from external stakeholders.

Your new role

This is an initial 3-month contract paying £400-450/day (Inside IR35) with remote working available and an immediate start preferred.

This is a discovery and investigation-focused role, centred around understanding the causes of data quality and validation issues and identifying practical opportunities for improvement. Working with a range of stakeholders, you'll analyse current processes, data standards, guidance and ways of working to determine where issues are occurring and how they can be addressed.

Key responsibilities will include

• Conducting root cause analysis into data quality and validation failures
• Working with stakeholders to gather requirements and understand current challenges
• Facilitating workshops and discovery sessions
• Mapping business processes and identifying improvement opportunities
• Producing clear documentation, reports and recommendations
• Helping shape improvements to data standards, guidance and operational processes

What you'll need to succeed

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hat you'll get in return

To be successful, you'll be an experienced Business Analyst with strong discovery, stakeholder engagement and problem-solving skills. You'll be comfortable investigating complex issues, working through ambiguity and translating findings into meaningful recommendations.

You'll ideally have experience across some of the following areas

• Business Analysis and requirements gathering
• Data quality, data governance or data validation
• Root cause analysis and problem investigation
• Process mapping and process improvement
• Regulatory, public sector or local government environments
• Producing reports, issue summaries and recommendation papers

In return, you'll have the opportunity to work on a high-profile programme with real organisational impact, alongside flexible remote working and the potential for extension.

What you need to do now

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