Export Business Analyst at DBIST, London, 4 Months, £Contract Rate

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks.  Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance. 

Description:

The wider Exports work over the next 12 months spans a significant period of transition and service evolution. This includes supporting a current export tool as it moves into live service, ensuring a structured handover to the live services team with clear documentation, agreed processes, and shared understanding of operational responsibilities.

Alongside this, the team will begin a new discovery phase to explore future export-related opportunities, requiring analysis of current documentation produced in a higher-level discovery, understanding the wider business context and export pain points, user needs, service gaps, and potential improvements. In this context, Business Analysis support would help provide continuity across delivery and discovery, ensuring that knowledge is carried forward, operational readiness is considered, and new work is exposed through well-structured and well understood requirements.

As a Business Analyst, your main responsibilities will be:

• Translate business problems and product objectives into clear, structured requirements, user flows, and actionable delivery plans.
• Define and document functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring they are complete, testable, unambiguous, and inclusive of edge cases.
• Maintain backlog quality by decomposing epics into implementation-ready user stories, creating robust acceptance criteria, and ensuring traceability across requirements and delivery items.
• Map, analyse, and document current and future state processes, identifying dependencies, risks, failure points, and operational constraints to support successful delivery.
• Drive stakeholder alignment by managing cross-team dependencies, assessing impacts of change, facilitating collaboration, and maintaining visibility across connected workstreams.
• Support user research and validation activities by translating insights into actionable artefacts, requirements, journeys, scenarios, and backlog enhancements while maintaining clear links between research findings and delivered solutions.

Essential Skills

• Strong experience as a Business Analyst
• Experience across multidisciplinary product teams as a business analyst
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience coordinating cross-team dependencies.
• Ability to translate user research and feedback into actionable improvements and delivery outcomes.
• Proven backlog management skills, including story decomposition and acceptance criteria creation.
• Experience mapping and improving end-to-end business processes and workflows.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, DBIST guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

DE&I Commitment

DBIST guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant 

DBIST guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.