Business Analyst

Fixed Term Contract until the end of March 2022

Do you thrive in a fast-paced work environment? Do you enjoy working to tight deadlines? Do you like to make a difference? If this sounds like you, this could be your perfect role.

At Johnnie Johnson Housing, we’re now looking for a Business Analyst to join us.

As our Business Analyst, you’ll play a key role in helping us manage, change and plan for the future. Using your understanding of the current organisational situation, you’ll help identify future needs and create solutions to help meet those needs, typically in relation to Digital and ICT projects. Working with the wider team and external suppliers to understand and investigate feedback into the service, function or product provided whilst thinking about opportunities and potential risks attached to the suggestions made.

So now you’ve heard a bit about the role, let us tell you a bit about the team! It’s important to know who you might be working with, right?

Our Team

The team you’ll join is a really lovely close knit team of five. We’re lead by the Programme Lead and as well as providing support to the organisation, we support each other too. We’re a brand new team created to support our exciting data and digital transformation!

About You

We really need someone who is educated to Degree level, who has significant experience working as a Business Analyst, can work autonomously and is familiar with both Agile and Waterfall project management techniques. You will have delivered process mapping exercises to streamline procedures and can perform requirements gathering. Innovative, inspirational and with the ability to think laterally, you’ll have experience of making change happen, using a combination of business modelling process improvement and process testing, and be highly organised so your comfortable working on one or more projects at once.

And the benefits of working for us?

We’ve adopted a completely agile way of working meaning you can work from home and/or our brand new (and very swanky!) innovation hub, Eden Point in Cheadle Hulme! As long as our residents and customers are put first we’ll also give you a degree of flexibility using our ‘My Lifestyle’ guidelines, meaning you can attend the important things in life. So, whether you’ve got a yoga class you’d love to attend, your child’s school play or maybe it’s just that you’ve just got a new fridge being delivered, we will work with you to be flexible!

We also offer a fantastic holiday allowance of 33 days per annum (including statutory holidays) which rises to 38 days after 5 years’ service (pro-rata for fixed term contracts). We can offer you a 35-hour working week, an enhanced 5% employer contribution pension scheme and a recognition scheme with both financial and non-financial rewards such as gift vouchers, early finishes or even a later start! There’s loads more fantastic benefits too – you can find out more about these on our careers site!

About us

We are a not for profit housing association, housing over 8,000 residents across the North West, North East, Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Our vision Living Longer, Living Better is simply about helping people age well and live independently for longer.