Business Analyst
Location: Sheffield (Hybrid Working)
Contract: Initial contract until end of year
Sector: Financial Services
We are supporting a leading financial services organisation in their search for an experienced Business Analyst to join a high-profile technology and change programme. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a global environment, collaborating with business stakeholders, product teams, and distributed technology teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer needs, challenges, and business problems aligned to strategic objectives.
- Work closely with customers, developers, technical leads, and product owners to define and deliver effective solutions.
- Capture both explicit and implicit business requirements and translate them into clear functional requirements and process documentation.
- Produce system process descriptions, functional specifications, and solution designs.
- Create and execute tests to validate requirements and proposed solutions.
- Analyse business processes and identify opportunities for improvement and optimisation.
- Develop business process models, flowcharts, and data flow diagrams to support solution design and delivery.
- Assess system and user impacts in partnership with engineering teams and business stakeholders.
- Design with the customer in mind, understanding user behaviour and implementing change with minimal disruption.
- Support handovers, presentations, knowledge transfer activities, and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle.
- Contribute innovative ideas and approaches that enhance products, services, and delivery outcomes.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, facilitating productive discussions and collaborative decision-making.
Required Experience
- Proven experience working as a Business Analyst within complex technology and change environments.
- Experience working within financial services or similarly regulated industries.
- Strong requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation skills.
- Experience creating functional specifications, process maps, flowcharts, and data flow diagrams.
- Strong understanding of systems analysis and business process modelling techniques.
- Experience collaborating with globally distributed development and delivery teams.
- Ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience supporting testing activities and validating business requirements.
- Knowledge of modern delivery practices including:
- A/B Testing
- Feature Toggling
- Canary Releases
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a focus on delivering customer-centric outcomes.
Desirable
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
- Experience partnering closely with Product Owners and engineering teams.
- Exposure to large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
- Financial services domain knowledge.
This role offers the opportunity to work on significant business and technology initiatives within a well-established financial services organisation while benefiting from a hybrid working model based in Sheffield.
