Business Analyst - HR & Payroll

Job title: Business Analyst – HR & Payroll

Job reference number: SJ019

Contract: FTC 12 Months, full time, 35 hours per week

Location: Kent-based (Avg. 2 days on site) with hybrid working

Salary: £45,000 per annum

This is an exciting opportunity to join the CAF team during a period of significant change as we look to bring in new roles to support our organisation’s vision and ambitions. CAF is undergoing a number of changes to replace end-of-life legacy systems with fully supported and integrated SAS platforms. Other benefits include migrating to a cloud-based offering in line with IT Strategy, ensuring the new solution is scalable and future proofed as much as technology allows, along with reducing ‘off system’ activity and excel based reporting.

We are seeking an experienced business analyst with a broad level of experience using various tools and technologies to play a pivotal role delivering analysis and coordinating activity between IT, business stakeholders, and operational teams to ensure the successful implementation of new solutions.

What you’ll do

• Work with business teams, vendors and technology teams to elicit, prioritise and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements.
• Support and coordinate any as-is/to-be state of process work, identifying formal and informal business processes in the organization, and obtaining the context in which the process is performed and the value generated.
• You will use the most appropriate tools and techniques to support the planning, analysis, development, testing, implementation and improvement of products and services.
• You will contribute to project plans by helping to define the required activity, resource and timelines.
• Create and maintain any materials that reinforce the transition to the desired business outcomes (e.g. business requirements documents, process flows, wireframes, data analysis, design specifications, test plans etc.).

Additional Responsibilities

• You will ensure the adherence to agreed governance standards and apply best practice approaches to assigned tasks.
• You will look for opportunities to make changes and recommendations to improve processes and look to encourage your peers to do the same.
• You will use a range of highly effective investigation techniques to identify, capture, analyse and validate requirements in an efficient way.
• You must be a self-starter who is proactive and self-motivated, someone who takes responsibility and pride in their work.
• You must be able to communicate at all levels in simplistic non-technical terms, must be comfortable to challenge scope and validate requirements at all times to achieve accuracy.

Who we are

At Charities Aid Foundation we accelerate social progress by providing essential connections between donors, charities and communities. We safeguard and deliver vital donations, offer expert advisory services and financial products to donors and charities, and provide tailored charity banking through our award-winning bank CAF Bank. Our purpose is to enable a better landscape for giving and a fair and sustainable future for all.

Diversity and inclusion

We know that the more diverse and inclusive our organisation becomes, the more creative, effective and impactful we will be. Our aim is for our workforce to represent the society we serve, and we have embarked upon an ambitious pathway to achieve this. We want to attract, retain and develop the best of talent at all levels, and provide a leading and great place to work, where every voice matters.

How to apply

The closing date for applications is 25th February 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. We welcome applications from everyone who feels they meet the criteria, regardless of age, sex/gender, disability, race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital, veteran or parental status.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee to interview disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please indicate on the application form if you would like to be considered as part of the Disability Confident Scheme.