About this Lead Business Analyst role at Anglian Water
Circa £65,000 (depending on skills and experience)
Permanent
Full Time / 37 Hours (Flexible working opportunities available)
Huntingdon or Lincoln
Double Matched Pension Scheme (up to 21% combined)
Private Healthcare
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We're looking for a Lead Business Analyst (SAP) to lead Anglian Water's SAP business analysis team and play a key role in delivering complex transformation and change across the organisation.
Business analysis is critical to understanding the challenges we need to solve, defining clear requirements and ensuring new systems and processes deliver the right outcomes. In this role, you'll lead the capability supporting projects from early discovery through design, build, testing and business readiness, with a particular focus on SAP-enabled change and large-scale business transformation.
You'll combine strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, providing expert business analysis on our most complex programmes while leading and developing a team of Senior Business Analysts and Business Analysts. Working closely with programme leaders, process specialists, change professionals, product owners and Digital, Data and Technology teams, you'll ensure business needs are understood, translated and delivered consistently.
What you'll be doing:
Lead the business analysis team supporting SAP related complex change and transformation programmes across Anglian Water
Set clear standards for discovery, requirements management, process analysis, user stories, acceptance criteria and business readiness
Lead, coach and develop team members, creating an inclusive, accountable and high-performing culture
Develop business analysis delivery plans, resource forecasts and budgets in partnership with project and programme leaders
Maintain oversight of sprint planning and backlogs, ensuring priorities remain aligned to business outcomes
Provide clear progress reporting and escalate risks, issues and dependencies at the right time
Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, managing conflicting requirements and constructively challenging proposed solutions
Drive continuous improvement in business analysis methods, templates, tools and professional practice
Ensure excellent engagement with subject matter experts and stakeholders to understand current processes, pain points and the problems to be solved
Ensure functional, non-functional, technical, organisational and operational requirements are captured, validated, prioritised and clearly documented
Bridge the gap between business teams and technical delivery, ensuring SAP configuration and system development meet agreed requirements
Define user stories, acceptance criteria, test scenarios, role profiles and authorisations for system-enabled change
Support testing, deployment, end-user training and business readiness activities across major programmes
What we're looking for
Extensive business analysis experience within complex, large-scale business transformation and IT-enabled change
Strong knowledge of SAP ECC6 and/or SAP S/4HANA environments
Proven experience leading, coaching and developing a team of Business Analysts
Extensive experience of requirements gathering, analysis, solution assessment and validation, process mapping and business readiness
Strong prioritisation and decision-making capability, with the ability to manage resources across multiple competing programmes
Strong stakeholder management experience at senior level, with confidence influencing programme and project leadership
Ability to translate complex business needs into clear functional and technical requirements
Excellent questioning, facilitation, communication and documentation skills
Experience working across Agile delivery, sprint planning, backlog management, testing and deployment activities
Innovative and analytical approach, with strong root-cause problem-solving skills and attention to detail
Desirable:
International Institute of Business Analysis certification, such as CCBA or CBAP
Experience of business process re-engineering and enterprise process architecture
Project or programme management qualification, such as MSP, APM or PRINCE2
Knowledge of water utilities or another regulated, asset-intensive environment
Understanding of IT applications, infrastructure, corporate data models and data management requirements
Why join Anglian Water?
At Anglian Water, transformation is about more than implementing technology. It's about improving how our people work, strengthening services for customers and delivering better outcomes for communities and the environment.
In this role, you'll lead a business analysis capability with influence across major change programmes, including SAP-enabled transformation. You'll have the opportunity to shape professional standards, develop career pathways and build a team recognised for high-quality analysis and trusted delivery.
You'll work with senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams on complex organisational challenges while continuing to apply your own expertise to the programmes where it can make the greatest difference.
Benefits
26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
Flexible working options
Private health care
Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches contributions up to 7%
Life assurance at eight times your salary
Annual bonus
Potential funded car allowance depending on evidenced business mileage
Personal medical assessments
Virtual GP service
Cancer screening
Financial wellbeing support and salary finance benefits
Lifestyle savings including discounts on retail, travel and utilities
Employee Assistance Programme
Volunteer days
Inclusion at Anglian Water
We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We are proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter and Armed Forces Covenant, and we're a Disability Confident employer.
Closing Date: Sunday 4th October 2026
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