Business Analyst (Payments / Business Separation)

Quick Facts

Role: Business Analyst (Payments / Business Separation)
Work model: Full remote
Focus: Regulated payments and business separation / continuity

Description

Work as a senior Business Analyst on a critical business separation project, serving as the key interface between business areas and the project team. Lead discovery activities such as capturing and validating business requirements, managing BRAC sign-off, and ensuring business continuity through structured stakeholder engagement. Support risk, issue, and dependency management and contribute to business-safe delivery and cutover planning.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary interface between business areas and the project; maintain relationships and drive effective engagement.
• Lead the capture, validation, and ongoing management of business requirements in alignment with scope and business continuity.
• Ensure appropriate engagement of business stakeholders (decision-makers and subject matter experts) with clear accountabilities.
• Understand and articulate business constraints and sequencing needs, including regulatory, customer, operational, and peak-period considerations.
• Create, maintain, and secure business sign-off for Business Readiness & Acceptance Criteria (BRAC) for assigned areas, working with IT project leads.
• Identify, document, and manage business risks, issues, and dependencies; escalate concerns early with impacts and options.
• Support problem-solving and option analysis when delivery approaches raise business concerns or risks.
• Identify and document process transformation opportunities and ensure they are assessed and managed to avoid unintended change.
• Collaborate with project and workstream leads to define delivery approaches, phasing, and business-safe cutover plans.
• Provide structured inputs to governance, risk, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID) and produce status reporting from the business perspective.
• Coordinate with the Communications Lead to ensure timely and appropriate messaging of key impacts to business communities.

Requirements

• Experience as a Business Analyst in regulated financial services.
• Payments Business Analyst experience; exposure ideally in Private Banking and Wealth Management environments.
• Strong capability to capture, validate, and maintain business requirements.
• Track record supporting business continuity through stakeholder engagement.
• Experience managing business sign-off for Business Readiness & Acceptance Criteria (BRAC).
• Ability to articulate business constraints and sequencing needs, including regulatory and operational/peak-period considerations.
• Proven ability to document and manage RAID items (risks, issues, dependencies) and escalate early with options.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work across the full project lifecycle, from strategy through implementation.
• International and diverse team environment with an openness and integrity culture.
• Values-led organization focused on confident, dedicated, responsible, and genuine ways of working.