Business Analyst

Salary £Competitive Base Salary + Benefits & Discretionary Bonus

The Vacancy

OVERALL SUMMARY

At Close Brothers we look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We celebrate diversity, promote inclusivity and are open to discuss flexible work options to help you balance your work and home life.

Join the Close Brothers Business Analyst Team where you will be working across the project lifecycle. The Business Analyst is proficient working with traditional or iterative delivery methods.

The successful candidate will possess refined interpersonal skills, as well as work under minimal supervision and exercise a fair amount of autonomy in how they undertake their work.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Close Brothers utilises the SFIA skills framework

Business Situation Analysis (SFIA Level 4)

• Investigates business situations where there is some complexity and ambiguity.
• Adopts a holistic view to identify and analyse problems and opportunities.
• Contributes to the selection of the approach and techniques to be used for business situation analysis.
• Engages and collaborates with operational stakeholders.
• Conducts root cause analysis and identifies recommendations for improvements.

• Identifies the range of possible options.
• Undertakes short-listing of options and feasibility assessment.
• Selects relevant feasibility assessment approaches and techniques.
• Engages with internal and external stakeholders to get information required for feasibility assessment.
• Supports the preparation of business cases including cost/benefit, impact and risk analysis for each option.

• Defines and manages scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for initiatives of medium size and complexity.
• Contributes to selecting the requirements approach.
• Facilitates input from stakeholders, provides constructive challenge, and enables effective prioritisation of requirements.
• Establishes requirements baselines or backlogs, obtains appropriate agreement to requirements, and ensures traceability to source.

• Develops models for complex and ambiguous business scenarios.
• Selects appropriate techniques and approaches to ensure models capture the necessary business elements.
• Independently plans modelling activities, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Collaborates with operational stakeholders to validate and refine models based on feedback, and to gain agreement on modelling results and their implications.
• Advises stakeholders interpreting and applying models for decision-making and business improvements.

• Develops acceptance criteria related to functional and non-functional requirements, business processes, features, user stories and business rules.
• Designs and specifies test cases and scenarios to test that systems, products and services fulfil the acceptance criteria and deliver the predicted business benefits.
• Collaborates with project colleagues and stakeholders involved in the analysis, development and operation of products, systems or services to ensure accuracy and comprehensive test coverage.
• Analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks including the work of others.

• Deals with problems and issues, managing resolutions, corrective actions, lessons learned, and the collection and dissemination of relevant information.
• Implements stakeholder engagement/communications plans. Collects and uses feedback from customers and stakeholders to help measure the effectiveness of stakeholder management.
• Helps develop and enhance customer and stakeholder relationships.

• Ensure that all Governance and Compliance requirements are adhered to and all reporting and reviewing activities required by the Regulatory Bodies are carried out to the standards required.

• Able to investigate defined business areas and IT systems and adopt an analytical approach when developing models to represent those systems.
• Good interpersonal skills and able to communicate effectively and confidently with stakeholders.
• Aware of the rationale for modelling and the use of models to analyse, develop and implement effective information systems.
• Possesses a good understanding of business and business skills.
• Shows a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving.
• Aware of the rationale for business analysis and the application of business analysis skills and techniques within the business change and software development life-cycles.
• Possesses a broad understanding of business and business skills.

We are an inclusive organisation and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is as accessible as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format or would like to discuss the recruitment process with us, please email us at recruit.ssc@closebrothers.com or request a call back.

ABOUT US

At Close Brothers we support employees to balance their work life priorities and in this role you will be able to enjoy a mixture of hybrid working.

Close Brothers is a leading UK merchant banking group providing lending, deposit taking, wealth management services and securities trading. At Close Brothers we provide financial support and advice to small businesses and individuals in the UK. Our purpose is to help the people and businesses of Britain thrive over the long term.

To find out more about Close Brothers, please visit our careers page: https://www.closebrothers.com/careers

To find out more about life at Close Brothers:
https://www.closebrothers.com/life-close-brothers#374017299-899295541

To find out more about our benefits:
https://www.closebrothers.com/employee-benefits

To find out more about our commitment to creating an inclusive environment:
Our Responsibility - Diversity and inclusion / Close Brothers Group

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The Company

At Close Brothers Group, we are all connected by our mission to be the best place in the UK for wealth professionals and their clients.

We believe that everyone should think ahead, have a financial plan and invest wisely. Our clients are professionals, business owners, individuals, charities, families, and employers, who rely on our clear financial advice and investment management services to preserve and grow their long-term savings and investments.

We are a team of about 900 people based in 15 offices across the UK. Our geographic footprint means we can combine a local approach with face-to-face services to enable strong, long-term relationships with our clients.

Sustainability is fundamental to our purpose and we have a responsibility to help address the social, economic and environmental challenges facing our business, colleagues and clients. We strive to do the right thing and are dedicated to helping the charities that matter most to our people.

Our vision is to develop an open and inclusive company that ensures everyone is valued, respected and included, so that in years to come our business will represent a diverse and inclusive workforce from the top down.

We look to recruit individuals from all different backgrounds. If this job is of interest to you but you do not meet every criteria then we encourage you still to apply as we are open to providing training opportunities. As an early adopter of hybrid working we are open to discussing all types of flexible working options, helping you to balance your work and home life.

THE BENEFITS

• Private medical
• Discounted health checks
• Stakeholder pension contribution
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gym discounts
• Purchase additional holiday
• A competitive salary, and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial, and social wellbeing