Expert analysis. Cross-functional collaboration. Resolving complex challenges.

Senior Business Analyst

£46,000 – £55,000 (+ Benefits)

Reports to: Lead Business Analyst

Department: Chief Operating Office

Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

External Closing date: 28 June 2026
Internal Closing date: 3 July 2026

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact as soon as possible.

Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews with a scenario-based exercise

How do I apply? We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

Cancer Research UK has an extensive technical estate that underpins the charity's ability to deliver our vision and strategy. The Business Analysis team play an essential role in our mission by bridging the gap between our technology department and the wider organisation. The team ensure we maximise the value of all our technical resources while delivering operational transformation & management and an employee experience that enables us to be an inclusive, well-governed, agile, and sustainable organisation so that we can achieve our mission of beating cancer. This involves championing innovation, providing analytical insight, and driving change across a range of products and services used by 4,000+ staff, 600+ shops, and thousands of supporters who raised £463m towards our life-saving research in 2023/24.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be assigned to a technology portfolio to deliver large/complex technology and change projects whilst rotating across a range of products. This will involve accurately analysing, capturing, and validating requirements; identifying and assessing highly beneficial solutions; and providing analysis expertise to successfully shape and deliver technical solutions and outcomes. You will partner and collaborate with stakeholders influencing across all levels of the organisation to ensure alignment with the underlying technology needs of the charity and its strategic direction.

If you are an experienced Business Analyst who has worked in medium to large multi-product businesses with a large IT function or within a large IT agency/consultancy, we would love for you to join our mission.

What will I be doing?

• Delivering large/ complex projects within one of our product portfolios to develop innovative and flexible business solutions, whilst driving efficiencies and harnessing shared capabilities.
• Providing business analysis and delivering the technical transformation across several workstreams/ products.
• Assessing the bigger picture to manage priorities and identify potential dependencies and risks.
• Forging strong stakeholder relationships at all levels to identify and assess solutions and process improvements that meet business outcomes and provide the best cost/benefit balance.
• Developing a strong understanding of the needs of specific business areas and their strategy to influence decisions.
• Maintaining an understanding of the capabilities, processes, and services which make up the Cancer Research UK technology landscape.
• Keeping aware of emerging technologies to ensure compatible solutions are designed and existing capabilities are re-used where suitable.
• Assisting in the development of investment appraisals, providing decision support to ensure that solutions designed deliver maximum value to the charity.
• Collating, understanding, and documenting business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Identifying strengths and weaknesses of existing processes, suggesting areas of improvement, and challenging as needed.
• Translating business requirements into Agile epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensuring requirements are documented appropriately for use by the project team (e.g. developers, testers) according to the project methodology used (e.g. Agile).
• Partnering with departments across the charity to ensure correlation between requirements, information architecture, and user experience.
• Providing analysis expertise and leadership throughout project lifecycles.
• Contributing to the successful delivery of large/complex projects, developing practical ideas and solutions to deliver value to the business.
• Sharing expertise and best practices, contributing to analysis toolkits, and supporting the business analyst community and business process owners.
• Inputting into test scenarios, scripts, design, and execution by collaborating with customers and colleagues to ensure changes are appropriately tested and accepted.
  • Where appropriate, creating relevant guidelines and user guides.
• Partnering closely with Project Managers and Business Owners to track progress against milestones, develop plans, prioritise work, and create sufficient documentation for projects/ work streams.
• Defining KPIs/ SLAs to monitor the effectiveness of processes and enable greater efficiency.

What skills will I need?