Senior Business Analyst

The Role: - Be a core member of the change team and is key to scoping, defining and delivering change across the business.

- Deal with more complex projects and applies robust business analysis tools to arrive at creative and robust solutions to business issues.

- Assigned to complex projects or across a portfolio of projects, they may be required to work cross functionally, and will need to be able to deal with ambiguity where stakeholders and priorities/interests are unclear or in conflict.

Key Responsibilities:

- Work on complex projects across a portfolio of investment projects.

- Define and direct the overall approach for the Business Analyst team, guiding them to deliver the project's objectives, setting standards and providing assurance over analysis deliverables.

- Ensure clarity of the business problem / opportunity and desired business outcomes which the requirements / solutions need to meet.

- Proactively works with the business to develop, analyse and prioritise requirements based on business objectives.

- Challenges and generates options to deliver optimal solutions.

- Leads definition and agreement of solution design for projects.

- Influences the direction of the project and ensures that a robust design governance framework is followed.

- May deputise for the CBA as the design lead for the portfolio or programme.

- Take an active lead in helping each person in your team perform to their best and understand how their work contributes to the achievement of business success.

You will have:

- Experience of resolving conflicts and prioritising between business stakeholders across functions.

- Experience of selecting and driving the right design approach in complex environments.

- Significant experience of facilitating workshops, requirements gathering, process modelling and producing business options and solution designs.

- Significant experience of analysing business information to understand change requirements and impacts on the business.

- Experience of working with third party providers and a diverse range of stakeholders at all levels, communicating complex ideas clearly and simply both orally and in writing.

- Experience of leading and directing teams of business analysts (preferred).

- Working knowledge of financial services regulatory and legislatory frameworks.

- Detailed knowledge of how project environments work.

- Detailed knowledge of a range analysis tools and techniques such as meta-planning, process re-engineering and root cause analysis.

- Working knowledge of Target Operating Modelling and architectures.