Salary: £46,142 - £51,356 per annum | Permanent, Full time 37 hours per week | Preston
International Sponsorship – this role is NOT open to international sponsorship
Are you ready to shape smarter, more efficient services for Lancashire?
We are looking for a collaborative and analytical Business Analyst to uncover digital opportunities for improvement, understand business requirements, and help deliver digital solutions that make a real difference across the Council.
As a Business Analyst you will:
* Help identify and shape digital change opportunities highlighted by Strategic Business Partners and senior stakeholders.
* Use structured analysis to understand complex business problems to create clear, evidence‑based requirements and benefits.
* Facilitate workshops, engage stakeholders and support commissioning activity to ensure new digital solutions are viable, user‑centred and aligned with business objectives.
* Work with services to assess options and inform digital solutions that improve how the Council operates.
* Support the delivery of projects, understanding feasibility and benefits, and contribute to service design and smooth transition into operational support.
What We're Looking For:
* Professional certification or substantial experience in business analysis, or similar roles.
* Significant experience analysing and designing business processes, ideally in a complex or public‑sector environment.
* Significant experience applying business analysis methodologies, assessing digital options, quantifying benefits and contributing to business cases, and requirements gathering.
* Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder‑engagement skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and present evidence‑based recommendations.
* Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with experience eliciting, creating and managing requirements.
If you're passionate about improving how services work and want to support meaningful digital change across Lancashire, we'd be keen to hear from you.
Why join us?
By joining Lancashire County Council, you can shape the career path that is right for you, with opportunities to gain personal and professional qualifications, coaching, and mentoring. Lancashire County Council truly is the place where you can have the career you've always wanted.
In return for your passion and expertise, we offer a generous benefits package, which includes:
* A competitive salary and Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions.
* A great holiday entitlement of 26 days annual leave, which increases with length of service. You will also be entitled to 8 Bank Holidays, 2 additional statutory Bank Holidays, and have the option to buy additional leave each year.
* Our staff discount scheme in partnership with Vivup, allowing you to access discounts with a range of UK retailers, saving on everything from weekly food shops to white goods and cars.
* Access to fantastic development and career opportunities.
You will be required to provide a car for use in connection with the duties of this post and must be insured for business use. In certain circumstances consideration may be given to applicants who, as a consequence of a disability, are unable to drive
How to apply
View the Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role.
We reserve the right to close down a vacancy early, before the closing date, if we receive sufficient applications.
Please ensure you have uploaded and attached your supporting statement to evidence how you meet the criteria for the role detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification. The panel may be unable to shortlist you for interview without this evidence.