Lead HR Business Analyst
Location: Reading or Dublin (Hybrid)
Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35 if UK‑based)
Duration: Initial 6 Months
No agency support required
Role Overview
This senior role sits within a large-scale, multi‑year HR transformation programme. The Lead HR Business Analyst will shape core HR processes, guide requirements definition across multiple workstreams, and oversee a team of Business Analysts delivering analysis for a global technology rollout. The role requires someone with extensive HR transformation experience, strong analytical leadership, and the ability to balance global standardisation with local market needs.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead a team of up to six Business Analysts, providing day‑to‑day direction, quality assurance, coaching, and subject‑matter guidance.
* Own the analysis approach for assigned HR domains, ensuring high‑quality requirements, process maps, and documentation.
* Work directly on complex or high‑impact areas of analysis, particularly where deep HR process knowledge is required.
* Partner with HR, Technology, and market stakeholders to capture, challenge, and refine business needs across multiple regions.
* Drive alignment to global HR processes while managing localisation requests and ensuring decisions are well‑governed.
* Support global design, testing, change impact assessment, and readiness activities across multiple markets.
* Ensure consistency and traceability across requirements, processes, and design artefacts produced by the BA team.
* Contribute to programme planning, risk management, and cross‑workstream coordination.
About You
* 8–10+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, with significant exposure to multiple HR transformation programmes.
* Strong understanding of core HR processes (e.g., Talent, Learning, Performance, Core HR, Recruitment).
* Proven experience leading and developing a team of Business Analysts in a complex programme environment.
* Expert in requirements capture, requirements definition, and process mapping, with a track record of producing high‑quality artefacts.
* Experience working on global technology rollouts across multiple markets, including managing the tension between global standardisation and local market needs.
* Confident operating in fast‑paced, matrixed environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
* Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.