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Home > Info > Careers > Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

Job purpose and background

CDP is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced senior business analyst who is passionate to lead cross-functional impact analyses on feasibility of business ideas and initiatives.

As part of its strategic ambitions CDP has defined a set of transformation and project initiatives to realize its strategic goals of higher impact, improved stakeholder experience and disclosure information.

Successful execution of this portfolio of projects over the coming years is a priority of the Executive Leadership Team of CDP. To this end, we are strengthening our transformation and project delivery capability by setting up a new Transformation & Project Management Office (PMO) function to help initiate, monitor and accelerate projects, act as a sparring partner to project owners and support CDPs Executive Leadership Team in respect of screening, selecting and prioritizing projects to define a project portfolio aligned with CDPs overarching strategy.

The senior business analyst will report to the Head of the Project Management Office.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Lead cross-functional (impact) analysis on feasibility of business ideas and initiatives
  • Determine business objectives of projects by gathering and analysing business information, evaluating output requirements and formats
  • Define project requirements by identifying scope, deliverables, project milestones, benefits, risks, resources and budget
  • Gather and formulate the functional and non-functional requirements of business solutions and know how to communicate those to different stakeholders.
  • Validate resource requirements and develop budget estimates
  • Conduct and coordinate financial, product, market and operational research to support strategic and business planning within the various departments and programs
  • Understand and communicate the financial and operational impact of any changes

Required skills and experience:

  • Next to fantastic soft skills you are proud of your analytical skills: the ability to come to the core of requirements and to place them into the right context within the total solution
  • Great communication skills and sense of responsibility
  • You are dedicated, committed and bring a high level of self-motivation
  • Ability to effectively deal with changing expectations or challenges
  • Knowledge of Business Analysis methods and best practices are a plus
  • Knowledge of Agile methods like Scrum
  • Consultancy skills (advising, coaching, presenting)
  • Knowledge of formal project management methodologies such as Prince II
  • Experience in working on IT/IS projects / programmes
  • Specific experience with reporting related projects (sustainability reporting is a plus)
  • Experience with delivering business cases and feasibility studies
  • Affinity with NGO and related processes is an advantage
  • Experience in Environmental related industries i.e. Water, Energy, Forestry related is a plus
  • Excellent writing, verbal and presentation skills in English

This is a full-time, fixed-term contract role to October 1, 2021, reporting to the Head of Project Management Office.

Salary and benefits: Level 4 role, Competitive NGO salary and benefits, 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and others.

Before you apply

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To apply please email your CV and a covering letter setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages, to [email protected] with ‘Senior Business Analyst’ in the subject. The deadline is 6 PM London time on April 8.


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