Post Title: Business Analyst
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract - until 5th February 2028
Rank/grade: E
Salary: Starting Salary £42,220 + £6,920 London Weighting
Directorate/department: Change Portfolio Office, Corporate Services Directorate
Vetting level required: MV/SC (find out more here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels /https://assets.college.police.uk/s3fs-public/2024-12/Vetting-authorised-professional-practice.pdf?VersionId=lvkOlukt26I3eQsjhOpkPlXGcGIvI4LV)
Location: Guildhall Yard East, London (Hybrid)
The City of London Corporation is currently undergoing a programme to ensure that our pay and reward practices are competitive and equitable across the whole organisation to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to thrive in the work that we do.
Who are we?
As City of London Police, we protect the people, businesses and infrastructure of the City of London, one of the most important and dynamic environments in the UK and globally. London City is the smallest borough in London, so does that make our job any less challenging? Absolutely not – because there’s so much going on.
City of London Police play a vital role in keeping the City of London diverse community safe. As a Police Staff Member you will be helping to making the city safer and deliver a valued service for those that live, work and visit the City.
Hybrid working - This Police Staff role adheres to Corporation of London’s hybrid working policy, which requires a 60% office attendance rate. The specifics of this will be discussed locally with your hiring manager if you’re successful for the role.
The City of London Police is keen to promote flexible working and will, subject to operational policing requirements, proactively consider all applications to work flexibly.
The City of London Police is committed to equality of opportunities and continuously strive for inclusivity within our Force. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly from those who are disabled, have long-term health conditions, and/or are neurodivergent, those with Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic backgrounds, female candidates, and LGBTQIA+ individuals.
About the team
The Change Portfolio Office has the exciting yet challenging role of overseeing programmes, projects and change initiatives that make up the City of London Police’s portfolio of change; these vary greatly from organisational design, delivering technological advances to national projects and programmes. We are focused on delivering change to meet the future needs of the business and to achieve the ambitions of our Policing Plan.
Key to the successful delivery of this portfolio is the ability to deploy analytical skills, professionalising the team and driving a culture of continuous improvement across the force.
About the role
Our Business Analysts work in multidisciplinary teams to analyse and formulate proposals which may include analysis of how national initiatives and directives may be implemented in the CoLP and may impact on the work of one or more business areas across the organisation.
They undertake a range of business analysis tasks for both established and new programmes or projects being delivered by City of London Police (CoLP), including internal changes initiated within, and overseen by, the Change Portfolio Office (CPO) in response to CoLP business goals and objectives such as the improvement of services and realisation of efficiencies.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Work with a range of customers to identify requirements using appropriate tools and techniques including interviews, document analysis, requirement workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, case studies. Scenarios, business and statistical analysis, task and workflow analysis.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, translating both high level and low-level information into formats that will inform business decisions. Distinguish user requests from the underlying business needs.
- Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. Use plain English to translate customer technical and business requirements.
- Work with stakeholders to analyse information needs and functional requirements to deliver documentation that sets out customer requirements for delivering a specific set of outcomes.
- Develop and evaluate options papers and feasibility studies across a variety of topics. Undertake cost benefit analysis of options and prepare fully costed business cases.
Requirements
Your application will be scored against the criteria listed below for shortlisting. Please ensure that you reference your ability, knowledge and experience against these points in your application.
- IIBA foundation qualification or equivalent or relevant experience.
- A range of business analysis tools and methods
- Excellent research and analytical skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent presentation skills with the ability to deliver workshops, events and talks.
This vacancy is open only to those who have the right to work in the UK. Also, due to this role requiring MV/SC level vetting, you need to have continuously resided in the UK for the last 5 years. This residency needs to be in the immediate 5 years prior to this application. If you do not meet this requirement, you are not eligible to apply for the role, due to nature of the vetting checks needed.
If you would like to discuss the role please contact: Victoria.Davies@cityoflondon.police.uk
Selection Process
As part of the initial application process, you will be asked to evidence how your experience, skills, and knowledge align with the points listed above in the ‘Requirements Section.’
The application and interview will be tested under Level 2 of the College of Policing Competency and Values Framework.
Applicants who fail to address the skills/knowledge/experience of the job description will not be considered.
The closing date for applications is 13th May 2026 at 23:59.
Following shortlisting, successful candidates will be invited to attend a competency-based interview, to be held week commencing 1st June 2026.
We strive to ensure all our information and services are accessible to and useable by everyone. If you would like to receive any information in a different way, would like us to do anything differently to help you apply for our roles, or have any other questions, please get in touch with HR via hrservices@cityoflondon.police.uk
Benefits:
A diverse workforce improves the service we provide to our public by making us more approachable and relevant within our communities. This is why it’s vitally important that we recruit people from a wide range of communities and backgrounds with an understanding of cultural issues and a wide range of skills. We therefore particularly encourage female and people from Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities to join us.
The way we work is changing. With a few exceptions most roles will be able to accommodate part time, job share and flexible working patterns. We can also offer hybrid working patterns of home and office based shift patterns. Feel free to speak to us about any flexible working requirements.
The Force has a number of Staff Support Networks that can offer you support and advice. Applicants are very welcome to contact the networks directly if they need any support or ask any question before they apply. For further information on the networks and their contact details please visit:
- LGPS Pension Scheme -Local Government Pension Scheme explained - Which?
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme -Welcome to Blue Light Card
- Discounts within the Square Mile specifically for City of London Police employees
- Free access to our Force Gym (with dedicated time for female colleagues throughout the week), Personal Training Instructors with a range of specialisms, and a large variety of fitness and wellbeing programmes
- 29 days’ annual leave + bank holidays, increasing up to 34 days with continuous service
- Season Ticket Loans
