Senior Business Process Analyst
6 months
London - Hybrid
Active SC security clearance required
Our client is looking for an interim Senior Business Analyst to support the Business Delivery team in the delivery of successful initiatives and developing process transformation solutions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background of delivering excellent solutions (including process redesign) in the financial services sector.
The successful candidate must be able to present examples of successful project delivery and business process solutions developed and implemented at previous assignments, preferably in the financial services sector.
The role will involve:
- Working closely with business areas on analysing business issues, business requirements, and critical business processes.
- Developing, assessing and presenting an array of solutions as options, considering associated risks and the impact on existing processes, systems, people, and data.
- Collaborating with business and technology stakeholders to assess, agree, plan, implement, and support effective solutions which optimise the use of technology, reduce operational risk, and deliver stakeholder value.
- Supporting solutions for its in-house systems and its associated business processes, and future initiatives such as Data Governance and Reporting and improving collaborative tools (such as MS Teams)
The successful candidate will be experienced in and highly familiar with industry best practice methods and where they can best be applied. Also, will be able to navigate through the work quickly and effectively to tight timescales.
Experience and Knowledge
- The successful candidate will have a minimum of 10 years' relevant experience.
- Extensive and recent practical experience of Business Analysis approaches and techniques for investigating and analysing problem situations to identify pain-points to be solved and/or benefits to be realised.
- Extensive and recent practical experience and detailed knowledge of developing and implementing Business Process Improvement, from analysis and identification through to implementation.
- Exceptional skills and experience producing accurate business process models (As-Is, To-Be) using Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN 2.0), assessing and implementing business process improvements, and writing clear and concise business & technical requirements.
- Excellent analytical skills with a highly structured, organised, and meticulous approach as evidenced in previous experience.
- Application of process automation where beneficial, assessing and presenting benefits, costs, and risks etc.
- Experience on the use of cloud services.
- Excellent ability to design Power BI dashboards, working with stakeholders to understand requirements and present data in a way that provides meaningful insights.
- Desirable experience in investment banking operational environments and an understanding of trade processing workflows relating to Bond and Money Markets.
Skills
- Highly developed and strong analytical skills and an eye for detail.
- Strong inter-personal skills with the ability to simplify complex issues and communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders, including senior management, across business and technical teams (internal and external).
- Ability to multi-task quickly and deliver to schedule and to budget.
- Technically proficient and up-to-date with how technology can be applied to deliver operational efficiencies and reduce risk e.g. automation.
- Ability to produce high-quality outputs that are accurate, concise, and understandable to a wide audience of stakeholders.
Behaviours
- A highly structured, professional, organised and meticulous approach to work.
- Strong self-motivation and able to take the initiative.
- Excellent team player, collaborator, and mentor.
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Must be able to work predominantly on-site
Qualifications and Technical
- Business Analysis qualification - BCS or IIBA
- Process modelling using Microsoft Visio
