Business Consultant Specialist

Daintta are a rapidly growing, values-driven team of specialists who work with government clients across Cyber Security, National Security, Law Enforcement, Telecommunications, Defence, Science and Technology. The Business Consultant supports the definition, analysis and delivery of business-led change within secure public organisations. The role bridges operational users, policy stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that business needs, operational outcomes and change impacts are clearly understood and translated into achievable solutions.

What's in it for you

You will be joining Daintta with accountability for delivering client projects and enabling others to deliver through leadership and collaboration. In addition to being rewarded fairly for your contribution to the business, you get to work in a dynamic organisation that is agile and responsive: a business that is growing fast and where you get to drive and shape the future, a place where you are respected and somewhere you can be innovative and creative. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Elicit, analyse and document business, operational and user requirements.
• Facilitate workshops with operational users, technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Produce requirements documentation, process maps, user stories, use cases and other analysis artefacts.
• Assess current and target operating models, processes and capabilities; identify gaps, impacts and improvement opportunities.
• Translate operational needs into actionable requirements and support assessment of solution options.
• Develop and coordinate business change, adoption, communications, training and operational readiness activities.
• Support testing, acceptance, transition and business readiness, maintaining traceability through to delivered outcomes.
• Engage stakeholders, manage dependencies and support benefits realisation and adoption measurement.

Skills/Knowledge

The role requires the following key skills / knowledge, non-exhaustively:

• Business analysis, requirements engineering and requirements management.
• Process modelling, operational analysis and capability assessment.
• Business change, stakeholder engagement, communications and workshop facilitation.
• Agile and traditional delivery approaches.
• Impact assessment, transition planning, business readiness and benefits management.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate between business and technical audiences.
• Familiarity with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Enterprise Architect or similar analysis/modelling tools.
• Previous business analysis and/or business change experience within defence, security, policing, central government or secure public-sector programmes.
• Experience working with cross-government, multi-agency or multidisciplinary stakeholders.
• Familiarity with secure environments, their governance processes and operational constraints.

Location?

Infrequent days working from Daintta office as required.

Benefits

We believe in supporting our people both professionally and personally. Here's what you can expect when you join us:

Time Off:

• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Up to 5 days annual training leave with a dedicated training budget
• Up to 3 days annual volunteering leave - give back to the community
• Competitive maternity, paternity, shared parental leave & compassionate leave

Health & Wellness:

• Comprehensive Private Health Insurance 
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 support services
• £2,000 Flex Cash Allowance, paid pro-rata over the year

Financial Benefits:

• 5% pension contribution 
• Discretionary company awards and bonuses, based on performance and company targets

Professional Development

• Up to £1,000 annual training budget (access to additional training and development budget via business case)
• Up to 5 days annual training leave
• 1 professional membership paid annually
• Up to £200 of additional IT budget for new joiners

Perks

• Free breakfast every Tuesday in the London office
• Fortnightly drinks – in London
• Regular social events, quizzes, and guest workshops
• Huckletree perks – including gym and restaurant discounts
• Employee referral programme
• Monthly breakfast club in our Cheltenham office 

Security Information

Due to clients' requirements, all applications are strictly subject to enhanced security clearance requirements relevant to the role.