Business Analyst

Full Remote Working

London

£575pd

Project Scope

• Act as the primary interface between business areas and the project, maintaining strong relationships and effective engagement.
• Lead the capture, validation, and ongoing management of business requirements, ensuring alignment with business continuity and agreed scope.
• Ensure the project engages the appropriate 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.
• Assist in creating, maintaining, and securing business sign-off for Business Readiness & Acceptance Criteria (BRAC) for assigned areas, working closely with IT project leads.
• Identify, document, and manage business risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating concerns early with clear impacts and options.
• Support problem-solving and option analysis when delivery approaches raise business concerns or risks (e.g., complex desktop solutions).
• Identify and document process transformation opportunities, ensuring they are assessed by the project and appropriately managed to avoid unintended change.
• Collaborate with project and workstream leads to define delivery approaches, phasing, and cutover plans that are business-safe.
• Provide structured inputs into governance, risk, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID), and status reporting, clearly representing the business perspective.
• Liaise with the Communications Lead to ensure timely and appropriate messaging of key impacts to the relevant business communities.

Role Profile

Seeking a Payments Business Analyst with experience in regulated financial services, ideally with exposure to Private Banking and Wealth Management environments.

This is a senior consulting role requiring a strong blend of banking, infrastructure, and data analysis experience to support discovery and mapping of the bank’s critical technology landscape.

The role supports a critical business separation project, with a focus on building stakeholder relationships and ensuring business continuity through effective engagement.