Senior Business Analyst | Financial Services

An established financial services brokerage is looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to play a central role in a company-wide transformation programme.

Reporting directly to the Head of Business Change, you will work across business, operations and technology teams to shape process and systems change from early discovery and design through to structured handover into delivery.

Operating as the principal Business Analyst within a lean change team, this is a visible and influential role. You will have the independence to shape your analysis approach, engage directly with senior stakeholders and turn complex or developing business needs into clear, practical solutions.

The opportunity

You will work across several transformation initiatives, helping the business understand its current position, define what needs to change and establish a clear route towards implementation.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Gathering and analysing detailed business requirements with a variety of stakeholders across front-office, back-office, operational and technology teams.
• Mapping as-is and to-be processes and identifying gaps, inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Translating business needs into clear process, systems and operational requirements.
• Challenging assumptions constructively and helping stakeholders distinguish between immediate improvements and longer-term solutions.
• Assessing the impact of proposed changes across people, processes, systems and projects already in delivery.
• Supporting stakeholders and project sponsors in the development of robust business cases.
• Facilitating workshops and helping stakeholders reach clear, informed decisions.
• Producing high-quality process maps, requirements documentation and solution designs.
• Providing comprehensive handovers to project managers and delivery teams.
• Managing multiple priorities and maintaining momentum across concurrent change initiatives.

About you

You will be an experienced Business Analyst who is comfortable operating with a high degree of independence.

You will bring:

• Significant Business Analyst experience, including a proven track record of operating independently within lean change/project team environments.
• Experience operating as a senior, lead, principal or standalone Business Analyst.
• A track record of working in a lean change environment where you have been responsible for shaping your own analysis approach.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the confidence to work directly with senior business leaders.
• The ability to challenge constructively, resolve ambiguity and create momentum.
• Strong process analysis, requirements elicitation and systems-design capability.
• Experience producing process maps, gap analyses, impact assessments and business cases.
• The judgement to balance detailed analysis with the need to make practical progress.
• Experience working across both business and technology-led change.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, Lean or blended delivery methodologies.
• An understanding of cloud-based solutions, including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
• Excellent written communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

Previous experience within financial services is strongly preferred.

Experience within a brokerage, trading, capital markets or wider financial-markets environment would be particularly valuable, although candidates from other relevant financial-services backgrounds will also be considered.

Experience of trading technology and project tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, Confluence, Visio or Miro would be advantageous but is not mandatory.

Why consider this opportunity?

This role offers:

• Direct exposure to the Head of Business Change and senior stakeholders.
• Broad involvement across a company-wide transformation programme.
• Genuine autonomy and ownership over your work.
• The opportunity to influence both process and systems change.
• A visible position where your contribution will have a clear effect.
• Meaningful transformation work within a lean Business Change team.
• A defined 12-month fixed term contract with accessible employee benefits after an initial probation period. There is also potential for your stay to extend beyond 12 months depending on your performance and circumstances.  

The role will suit someone who enjoys working close to the business, building trusted stakeholder relationships and taking responsibility for moving change forward.

As the successful applicant you will be expected to attend the company’s London office a minimum of three days per week. Within reason, there is flexibility over which days are spent in the office.

If you are interested to learn more, please APPLY NOW for a confidential discussion with Richard Bradshaw at Three Business Partners.