Senior Business Analyst - (CSD, CSRD, FMI Settlement & Asset Servicing) - Banking Client - London
Rate: £500 - £700 per day
Duration: 12 month contract role
Hybrid working – 8 days onsite per month, the rest is remote working.
Inside IR35 – must use an Umbrella company.
Role
You will be part of a team within the UK Tribe. The Tribe is organised and structured so that business and IT colleagues work closely and collaboratively in alignment with agile values and principles. Your team will aim to deliver the most value at the earliest opportunity while ensuring feedback loops are in place to continually evolve the solutions the team delivers.
Responsibilities
- Act as the key interface between business stakeholders and IT teams.
- Clearly demonstrate and communicate an understanding of the business drivers behind operational, functional, tactical or strategic initiatives/changes and the value they will bring to the organization.
- Counsel business stakeholders by understanding their problems/needs and leverage this to negotiate/propose options for viable business solutions that are acceptable to the stakeholders.
- Facilitate the implementation and deployment of system changes for business stakeholders by providing support, advice and guidance throughout the change process.
- Share ideas, drive improvements and promote best practice amongst the business analyst community across all IT and non‑IT divisions and across physical locations.
- Provide input and support for recruitment, development and performance assessment of business analysts within the GBS UK Tribe.
- Produce and validate the scenarios needed to test the system.
- Perform execution of the various phases of testing.
- Support user and client acceptance testing.
Profile
- Knowledge:
- Broad and deep understanding of the client's UK & International services and the IT systems that support them.
- Broad understanding of CSDs, CSD Regulation and the position of CSDs as FMIs within the financial markets post‑trade landscape.
- A deep understanding of securities market standards developed through bodies such as SMPG, ISO (ISO15022, ISO20022).
- Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a Business Analysis role.
- Successfully delivered complex projects utilising methodologies such as Waterfall, V‑Model, SCRUM, SAFe.
- Skills:
- Stakeholder Management – able to confidently manage all stakeholders, irrespective of position or interest.
- Expert in utilising and promoting business analysis methods such as: Modelling (Use Cases, Story Mapping, Process Modelling (BPMN, UML), Data Modelling (conceptual/logical)), Requirements (Business, Stakeholder, Functional / Non‑Functional, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria).
- Excellent two‑way communication skills across multiple departments, roles and levels of seniority, adaptable to the situation.
- Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with a logical mind.
- Mindset:
- Strong sense of ownership and management of the work you and your squad commit to.
- Proactive.
- Good team player / collaborator.
Additional Qualifications
- IIBA/BCS Business Analysis Diploma.
- ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing.
- Understanding and experience of risk‑based testing.
Rates depend on experience and client requirements.
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