Business Analyst – Strategy & Planning

Responsibilities

• Support the Strategy & Planning team in delivering the 2025–2029 Strategic Plan and priorities.
• Gather, document and validate business requirements across strategic and transformation initiatives.
• Analyse current and future processes, identify gaps, inefficiencies and control weaknesses, and recommend improvements.
• Prepare business cases, options analysis and cost–benefit assessments to support investment and prioritisation decisions.
• Support the enterprise planning cycle, including milestones, planning calendars and coordination with Finance and Risk.
• Maintain strategic initiative trackers, monitor delivery, and escalate risks, dependencies and slippage.
• Develop KPIs, dashboards, scorecards and management information for senior decision-making.
• Act as a key link between Strategy & Planning, Transformation, business units and support functions.
• Coordinate strategy workshops, quarterly reviews and planning sessions, including materials, logistics and actions.
• Build strong relationships with Finance, Risk, Compliance, Technology, Operations, HR and business lines.
• Prepare and quality-assure Board, Management Committee and senior executive papers, packs and presentations.
• Support governance and committee processes, including agendas, minutes, action tracking and assurance/attestation.
• Provide analytical and delivery support to major programmes and regulatory change initiatives.
• Track and support mitigation of risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Support change management, communications and adoption across impacted areas.

The candidate will need:

• Strong Business Analysis experience, including requirements gathering, process mapping, gap analysis and developing practical solutions.
• Experience supporting strategy, planning, transformation or change programmes, ideally within financial services.
• Experience with planning, performance management, KPIs, dashboards and management information.
• Experience working with governance, committees, senior management and/or Board-level reporting.
• Strong understanding of risk, regulatory requirements and controls, ideally in a UK banking/financial services environment.
• High level of integrity, attention to detail and professional judgement, particularly when handling senior and regulatory outputs.