Lead Business Analyst - Retail Bank - Process Modelling - to 55K + exc

Lead Business Analyst - Retail Banking - Process & Datamodelling

Leading Retail Bank has a requirement for a Lead Business Analyst to operate as part of a key team within Retail Change.

The role will involve leading a team of Analysts through the initiation, requirements gathering and functional design aspects of the project life cycle whilst also undertaking specific areas of analysis as required.

The successful applicant will be working within a high profile strategic multi-channel programme and will therefore be capable of communicating to stakeholders across all levels of the organisation and will see quality of delivery to tight timescales as key.

Key Accountabilities:

• Manages business engagement to understand, challenge and document underlying business needs, translating these into project scope, objectives and business goals.
• Designs and facilitates business need workshops to analyse, define and prioritise requirements.
• Defines and manages the documentation of business requirements and prepares business case underpinning solution options.
• Understands and articulates the effect of proposed solutions, creating accurate and detailed as-is and to-be business models incorporating process and benefit analysis, people and customer impact assessment.
• Maintains good knowledge of an individual business/product area and working knowledge providing business analysis insight for ad hoc queries, consulting requests, independent reviews and management of quality assurance activity.
• Defines business analysis approach, applies project best practice throughout the life cycle with supporting documentation and tools, promoting equivalent behaviour across the business.
• Builds and maintains effective working relationships with appropriate colleagues to share knowledge and best practice.
• Owns resolution of business analysis issues, identifying and managing mitigating actions against design risks

Key Requirements:

• The successful applicant will possess a strong toolkit of analytical techniques that have been practically applied over an extended period of time and will be able to exhibit their experience at understanding and re-engineering complex processes; primarily via the development of IT systems.
• We are preferably seeking someone who has extensive experience of performing in a senior capacity across requirements and design activity within significant IT Programme(s) (Minimum GBP5M budget).
• Analysis Skills: Scoping/project initiation techniques (eg Hourglass), Stakeholder analysis/modelling, Business Process Modelling, Requirements gathering and management, UML techniques (incl. Use Case (critical), Sequence Diagrams, State Diagrams), Datamodelling/analysis, UI Design, familiarity with workflow tools (eg PEGA) would be beneficial.
• Behavioural Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), facilitation, coaching/mentoring, self-starting - able to work without the need for close day to day management.