Senior Business Analyst

Hays PLC; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000

Job description

Senior Business Analyst - Wealth Management - Agile Liverpool or Glasgow based
Salary: £65,000 + bonus

Your new company
An opportunity has arisen to join a leading provider of individual wealth management, asset management and related services to private clients, charities, trustees and professional partners. They have recently gone through a large organisational change and are in the process of transforming their business and technology processes. The organisation prides themselves on their strong culture. While they have grown through acquisition, they still manage to maintain a collaborative and supportive environment and provide a "family feel" to their employees.

Your new role
A Senior Business Analyst is required to join a newly created business design function. The design function sits within the Technology department and the role combines knowledge of business architecture and business analysis. This is a specialist role working in a multidisciplined team, alongside Business Design specialists in Architecture and Testing, delivering a unified business design capability.

The role is to ensure that business analysis delivers the most effective change, optimising business processes and technological advancements. As a Business Design Specialist, you will provide depth of knowledge across business analysis, working closely with team members and other design specialisms. The unified Business Design Capability aims to cover Technical and Business design, and overall quality engineering (testing).

As a design specialist, you will be expected to lead complex business analysis, problem definition, requirements capture and documentation, considering how the existing system estate and capabilities can be utilised and how business outcomes can be tested and proved. You will also be expected to support Design Analysts in the team, who focus on breadth of knowledge across all 3 disciplines. The business design specialist will also assist with the motivation and support of team members on business architecture and analysis activities for the overall product portfolio. They will also support by establishing communities of practice, focusing on BA practices across all product portfolios.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be a Senior Business Analyst with experience of working on multiple, complex projects and portfolios throughout the full lifecycle. You will have excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams. Knowledge of Agile methodologies and working in an Agile environment is a plus. You will have highly developed business analytical skills - specifically aimed at the generation of complete business requirements and also business cases for IT change.

You will have high levels of initiative, professionalism, independence and resilience and have a proven record of producing quality technical requirements, design and test documentation. You will be able to demonstrate leadership skills and have the ability to work with senior-level stakeholders, ideally with some experience of mentoring and training BAs previously. Experience working in the financial services industry is preferable; knowledge of wealth management is highly desirable.

What you'll get in return
£65,000 basic salary + bonus
Several benefits, including a 25-day holiday and 9% pension
Hybrid working - 1-2 days in the office.

What you need to do now
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