What You Will Do
Lead Business Analyst across all stages of the delivery lifecycle. Influence stakeholder attitudes, decisions and actions to achieve optimal outcomes. Facilitate meetings with senior stakeholders to elicit information, review recommendations and validate outputs. Demonstrate in-depth understanding of the subject matter, inspiring confidence in your ability to understand the business, its problems, its aspirations and its success. Collaborate with IT and Business teams and functions to refine features and the backlog. Produce and manage Features, Epics and Stories with Acceptance Criteria in Jira, as well as other artefacts including data mapping documentation. Present problems to Agile delivery teams and shape work items through workshop facilitation, and effective collaboration. Define and support the planning and execution of UAT. Collaborate to define live proving plans and scripts for releases. Support the deployment of changes by coordinating business readiness activities such as training and communications, including production of plans and content briefs and delivery of material to impacted colleagues. Support the continuous improvement of the BA Capability, defining best practices and sharing knowledge. Support less experienced colleagues and contribute to continuous improvement of standards/practices in your current role.
Note: As a bank, risk is inherent in all we do. We value taking responsibility, doing the right thing for customers and colleagues, and speaking up when concerns arise.
What You Will Need
Fluency in BA tools and industry standards e.g. Jira, Confluence, Behaviour Driven Development, gap analysis, BPMN, etc. Applicants should have – Agile (in particular SAFe), BSC Diploma in Business Analysis, Lean, Six Sigma or similar certification. Metro Bank Business Analyst experience (or external equivalent). Financial Services experience (desirable, not mandatory). Retail Banking experience (desirable, not mandatory). You have good domain knowledge and quickly understand new business subject matter.
Our Promise to You
We believe in “one in, one up” at Metro Bank, growing our own and promoting from within. We are looking for YOU to join as an AMAZEING colleague in this FANtastic new role. You will be well-rewarded with a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, and colleague discounts. We will provide training to ensure your success and offer internal opportunities to progress (around 40% of recruitment comes from internal promotions). We support work-life balance with hybrid working where possible.
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