Business Analyst (Lead II – Business Analysis)
This role is for a Business Analyst (Lead II – Business Analysis) with Banking/Financial Services experience, based in London. It is a hybrid contract until December 2026, requiring strong analytical skills, knowledge of compliance, and familiarity with Agile methodologies.
UK, London | Hybrid | Fixed term inside IR35 until Dec 2026 | Full right‑to‑work required | Immediate start.
Role Purpose
Work from first principles—asking the right questions, challenging requirements to uncover the real business need, converting ambiguity into clear, prioritised outcomes that delivery teams can execute effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Elicit, analyse and document business requirements through workshops, interviews, process walkthroughs and data analysis.
- Challenge assumptions and proposed solutions to ensure requirements reflect true business problems and target outcomes.
- Translate business needs into clear, testable artefacts such as user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows and data definitions.
- Define scope, priorities and MVP approaches; support backlog creation, refinement and ongoing prioritisation with Product and Delivery leads.
- Map and improve business processes (AS‑IS / TO‑BE) and identify operational impacts, controls, risks and dependencies.
- Partner with risk, governance, legal and compliance stakeholders to ensure requirements align with regulatory and organisational obligations.
- Support data‑related analysis, including identification of data sources, definitions, lineage (where applicable), quality issues and usage considerations.
- Maintain requirements traceability and manage changes, decisions, assumptions and open questions.
- Support testing and implementation activities by clarifying requirements, assisting UAT planning and validating delivered outcomes against acceptance criteria.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong core Business Analysis skills: problem decomposition, requirements elicitation, stakeholder management, documentation and facilitation.
- Proven ability to work effectively with unclear or evolving requirements and drive clarity through structured questioning.
- Solid understanding of product development approaches: iterative delivery, MVP thinking and value‑based prioritisation.
- General understanding of financial services concepts and operational environments (not expected to be a subject‑matter expert).
- Working awareness of risk, governance, legal and compliance considerations, with ability to articulate trade‑offs and impacts.
- Understanding of corporate data concepts such as data ownership, definitions, quality, access and appropriate usage.
- Strong communication skills: clear writing, concise summarisation and confident facilitation across business and technology teams.
- Comfortable working in cross‑functional onshore/offshore delivery environments.
Desirable Experience
- Experience within asset management, wealth management, private markets or group operating platform environments.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery frameworks (Scrum/Kanban), Jira/Confluence and standard BA artefacts such as user stories, BRDs, BPMN/Visio.
- Basic exposure to data analysis tools and techniques (Excel, SQL or equivalent querying tools).
Key Behaviours
- Curious, structured and outcomes‑focused, with confidence to challenge constructively.
- Pragmatic and delivery‑oriented, balancing speed with control and governance requirements.
- Collaborative, transparent and dependable, with strong follow‑through.
To explore this opportunity, apply with your updated CV for an immediate discussion with TA.
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