Business Analyst – Fixed term up to 12 months

About Vico Homes:

Vico Homes is a community-focused housing provider committed to delivering safe, inclusive, and sustainable homes across the North of England. As a regulated Community Benefit Society, we put people first, ensuring our services reflect the needs of our residents and communities.

The Opportunity:

As a Business Analyst at Vico Homes, you will play a pivotal role in identifying opportunities for operational improvement, supporting strategic initiatives, and driving data-informed decision-making. You’ll work closely with stakeholders across departments to analyse business processes, gather requirements, and deliver actionable insights that enhance efficiency and customer satisfaction.

What you’ll do

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements.
• Analyse current business processes and systems to identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and meetings to gather and validate requirements.
• Develop business cases, process maps, and documentation to support change initiatives.
• Support project delivery by ensuring solutions align with business goals and user needs.
• Create reports, dashboards, and visualizations to communicate insights and performance metrics.
• Work with IT and development teams to ensure technical solutions meet business requirements.
• Assist in change management activities including training, communications, and stakeholder engagement.

What we’re looking for

To join our PMO team, we’re looking for someone with:

• proven experience as a Business Analyst, ideally within housing, construction, or public sector environments;
• strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail;
• excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities;
• proficiency in business tools (e.g. Azure DevOps, Power platform, M365 tools); and
• familiarity with Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.

For more details on what we’re looking for in this role, please see the Job Description below.  Alternatively for an informal chat about the role or working for Vico Homes, please contact Darren Illingworth, Business Change Manager at [email protected].

Working for Vico Homes

Want to work in a place that values you? Where you’re offered a competitive salary and a great pension? And where you can make a real difference? You’re in the right place!

We have a strong and inclusive culture and we’re always on the lookout for talented and dedicated people to be part of our teams. You spend a lot of your waking hours at work, so we offer a workplace where you can really be yourself, feel valued and access opportunities to progress and develop. We are recognised as a disability confident employer and have the Investors in People accreditation.

Working at Vico Homes brings lots of great benefits, including:

• Holidays - 26 days holiday (rising to 31 after five years' service) and an extra day off on your birthday, plus bank holidays and an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
• Pension - generous employer pension contribution
• Flexible working - we’re happy to talk flexible working, including our WorkSmart approach to hybrid working, reduced hours, compressed hours or other flexible working patterns
• Vico Homes Rewards - a fantastic range of lifestyle savings and salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work, home electronics and our car benefit scheme
• Colleague wellbeing - a range of initiatives to support our people including an Employee Assistance Programme, Volunteering Scheme and dedicated Wellbeing Champions
• Colleague development – a range of initiatives to support personal development including training, support with professional membership fees, internal and external qualifications, mentoring and personal coaching

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all.

How to apply and what happens next

• Read the job description, person specification and guidance notes below
• Complete the supporting information form below with details of how you meet the person specification
• We also encourage you to provide your CV if you have one
• Email your supporting information form, and CV if you have one, to [email protected] before the closing date. Applications close at midnight on the closing date specified
• You'll receive an automatic reply to let you know we've received your application
• We'll then score all the applications against the person specification and contact you to let you know if we're inviting you to interview

If you have any questions about a career at Vico Homes, you can contact us by email on [email protected]