Business Analyst - #2089024

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.