Lead HR Business Analyst

Lead HR Business Analyst

Location: Reading or Dublin (Hybrid)

Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35 if UK‑based)

Duration: Initial 6 Months

No agency support required

Role Overview

This senior role sits within a large-scale, multi‑year HR transformation programme. The Lead HR Business Analyst will shape core HR processes, guide requirements definition across multiple workstreams, and oversee a team of Business Analysts delivering analysis for a global technology rollout. The role requires someone with extensive HR transformation experience, strong analytical leadership, and the ability to balance global standardisation with local market needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of up to six Business Analysts, providing day‑to‑day direction, quality assurance, coaching, and subject‑matter guidance.
• Own the analysis approach for assigned HR domains, ensuring high‑quality requirements, process maps, and documentation.
• Work directly on complex or high‑impact areas of analysis, particularly where deep HR process knowledge is required.
• Partner with HR, Technology, and market stakeholders to capture, challenge, and refine business needs across multiple regions.
• Drive alignment to global HR processes while managing localisation requests and ensuring decisions are well‑governed.
• Support global design, testing, change impact assessment, and readiness activities across multiple markets.
• Ensure consistency and traceability across requirements, processes, and design artefacts produced by the BA team.
• Contribute to programme planning, risk management, and cross‑workstream coordination.

About You

• 8–10+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst, with significant exposure to multiple HR transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of core HR processes (e.g., Talent, Learning, Performance, Core HR, Recruitment).
• Proven experience leading and developing a team of Business Analysts in a complex programme environment.
• Expert in requirements capture, requirements definition, and process mapping, with a track record of producing high‑quality artefacts.
• Experience working on global technology rollouts across multiple markets, including managing the tension between global standardisation and local market needs.
• Confident operating in fast‑paced, matrixed environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.