Business Analyst - Financial Services

TN United Kingdom; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

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Business Analyst - Financial Services, Edinburgh

Client: CAPCO

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 333ff4df5190

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Posted: 18.02.2025

Expiry Date: 04.04.2025

Job Description:

Business Analyst - Financial Services

Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different.

About CAPCO

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry. We are/have:

1. Experts in banking and payments, capital markets and wealth and asset management
2. Deep knowledge in financial services offering, including e.g. Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Core Banking etc.
3. Desire in growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there
4. Focused on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Capco are looking for experienced financial services Business Analysts across multiple levels. This role offers the chance to advise and deliver change projects as part of a long-term strategic partnership with financial institutions. Roles will have a global focus and will entail collaborating with Business, Operations, Finance, Compliance, Technology, analysing and developing business and technical requirements, effective ways of working and identifying and reporting risks, issues and dependencies. The preferred candidate will be expected to:

1. Be a self-motivator working in a team of Capco and client colleagues
2. Work closely with stakeholders (both technical and non-technical) to perceive new and better ways of working
3. Help to drive the use of Agile methodologies to help the organisation become more agile
4. Recommend areas for change and then provide support to the business as the changes develop to ensure continuous improvement
5. Collaborate with all parts of the business including 3rd parties

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

1. Experience working within Retail Banking as a Business Analyst
2. Solid experience of process mapping/process re-engineering
3. Proven ability to conduct process mapping and customer journey analysis
4. Change Management Methodology – proven delivery experience working in a project environment with different methodologies
5. Proven stakeholder management skills, including the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
6. Change Management Implementation - Being involved in projects from Business Case creation through to User Acceptance Testing co-ordination, test planning and execution
7. Requirements Gathering – the ability to produce structured functional specifications, including experience of User Story, proven ability to run effective workshops for client business users
8. Data Interpretation - the ability to critically evaluate information gathered across multiple sources, reconcile variances, and recommend proposals to clients
9. Strong academic record coupled to good problem-solving skills
10. Excellent Communication and Stakeholder Management Skills - the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences across business function and level and tailor messages appropriately
11. Senior Business Analysts will have some experience managing teams, an understanding of project management and planning

Why Join Capco?

1. A work culture focused on innovation and creating lasting value for our clients and employees
2. Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise in our financial services offerings
3. A flat structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
4. An agile, diverse, entrepreneurial, inclusive, meritocratic
5. Enhanced and competitive family friendly benefits, including maternity/adoption/shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause and bereavement

Next Steps

Our immediate focus is on interviewing candidates who are based in Scotland as this is a hybrid role with travel to client site. Unfortunately we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Please apply by Wednesday 31st of July. Applications will be reviewed and telephone interviews will take place on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd of August. Our interview process is 3 stages - this can all be concluded in 7 working days.