Business Analyst

Business Analyst

UK Remote role

12 months contract

Rate: 39.90 to 44.71/hour on PAYE

Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex risk information into concise, actionable guidance.
• Knowledge of crisis management, business continuity, organizational resilience, risk assessment or emergency management principles.
• Strong analytical, research and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify patterns, dependencies and second-order impacts.
• Strong program and project-management skills, including planning, prioritization, action tracking and delivery across multiple workstreams.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and coordinate effectively with stakeholders across functions, regions and levels of seniority.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment and handle sensitive information appropriately.
• Experience with productivity and analytical tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint; dashboarding or data-visualization experience is a plus.

Job Responsibilities:

• Analyze emerging risks, operational dependencies and business trends to identify potential impacts to client's people, operations and critical services.
• Develop and maintain resilience strategies, crisis-management plans, playbooks, procedures and governance documentation.
• Support enterprise and regional risk prioritization, translating analysis into practical recommendations for leaders and program owners.
• Coordinate cross-functional resilience and crisis-management initiatives, including workplans, milestones, dependencies, decisions and follow-up actions.
• Support crisis exercises, readiness reviews, incident-response coordination and after-action reviews, and track improvements through completion.
• Create executive briefings, dashboards, metrics and other decision materials that clearly communicate risk, readiness and program performance.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external service providers to gather information, resolve gaps and maintain consistent resilience practices.
• Identify process and capability gaps and recommend sustainable improvements to crisis readiness and resilience programs.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in business continuity, emergency management, risk management, public policy, international relations, business or a related field required.
• Relevant experience in crisis management, organizational resilience, business continuity, risk analysis or complex program management.

Top 3 non-negotiable skills:

• Demonstrated track record of establishing crisis management or organizational resilience programs from the ground up within enterprise environments, including executive alignment and framework advocacy
• Hands-on AI Tool Integration: Candidates must possess deep familiarity with advanced AI tools (specifically Claude, Codex) and demonstrate the ability to incorporate them directly into daily workflows

8-10 years of experience to effectively show up as authoritative consultative subject matter experts when interacting with and advising senior leadership