Business Analyst (Banking)

Business Analyst (Banking)

6 Month Contract

London

Hybrid Working

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We are happy to be recruiting for one of our high-profile banking clients. They are currently looking for a Business Analyst (Banking) to join them for an initial 6 month contract, however there may be scope for extension.

Role Purpose:

• The Business Analyst (BA) is responsible for understanding and assessing changing business needs, analysing impacts, documenting requirements, and facilitating communication between stakeholders.
• The role involves supporting business case development, planning, control processes, impact evaluation, requirements documentation and traceability.
• The BA will also support the creation of a Central Process Repository, working with SMEs to create process maps using BPMN 2.0 notation, and ensuring that standards and governance are adhered to.
• The BA will conduct process discovery workshops with SMEs and stakeholders to map current-state workflows and define clear, optimised future-state processes; and provide analysis, reporting, and insights on process gaps, redundancies, and improvement opportunities, enabling better decision-making.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Engage with internal/external stakeholders to understand current processes, identify change needs, and recommend optimal approaches.
• Produce BA documentation (e.g., target operating models, process models, business requirements, test scripts) to support solution development and implementation.
• For regulatory projects, track and analyse EMEA regulatory updates, working with SMEs to document practical implications for systems and processes.
• Identify and document operating model changes, timelines, and governance requirements.
• Assess impacts of change on services, functions, and systems; highlight options and dependencies for informed decision-making.
• Communicate clearly within multi-disciplinary teams, gain consensus, and implement solutions within time, budget, and quality constraints.
• Articulate benefits of changes to stakeholders and address concerns.
• Support QA/testing and assist in issue resolution.
• Create plans and processes to evaluate change impacts and maintain audit-ready documentation.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Degree-level education; professional BA qualifications desirable.
• Strong experience in end to end process mapping and design using BPMN, across L1-L3 process levels, producing clear and reusable process documentation.
• Proven ability to lead process discovery and mapping sessions with senior stakeholders and SMEs translating complex operations into structured process models
• Solid understanding of process hierarchy ownership and governance including how processes are reviewed, approved changed and retired.
• Experience applying process standards, metadata and quality criteria to ensure documentation is fit for us by audit, risk and operational resilience.
• Ability to identify process gaps, control weaknesses and change impacts through process analysis and contribute to firm wide process improvement.
• Strong multitasking, relationship-building, and communication skills.
• Proven experience delivering deadline-driven projects in financial services, including regulatory change.
• Understanding of banking operations and trade flows.
• Ability to work collaboratively, resolve conflicts, and take initiative while supporting project leadership.
• Resilient under pressure; flexible in shifting between strategic and detailed tasks.
• Skilled in gap analysis, target operating models, process modelling, business requirements, and test scripts.
• Ability to analyse regulatory/business requirements and translate them into practical implications for processes and systems.

Location:

This is a hybrid working role, with a requirement to work from the clients London office 2-3 days a week.

Working hours:

Standard working hours with some flex where required.

If you feel that this is a role that would suit you then please apply today.

If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of your application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

The Adecco Group is an equal opportunities company