Lead Business Analyst - Workday Implementation - Banking

Summary: The Lead Business Analyst will spearhead the end-to-end delivery of an ERP system for a Challenger Bank amidst a digital transformation. This role involves close collaboration with senior stakeholders to ensure effective implementation and alignment with business requirements. The candidate will engage in requirements engineering, business case creation, and process design while managing risks and deliverables. Strong finance domain knowledge and stakeholder management skills are essential for success in this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership role in the e2e lifecycle delivery of an ERP system in a Financial Institution
• Decomposition of as-is data elements used in Financial reporting and working with technical data modellers to construct target data models
• Preparation for and leading participation in Discovery phase with ERP vendor to turn Business Requirements and TOM principles into implementable functional design
• Requirements engineering: elicit, analyse and validate stakeholder requirements, business requirements and solution requirements (functional and non-functional). To document the requirements in the form of user stories supported with acceptance criteria and to have the ability to elicit requirements ensuring both vertical and horizontal traceability.
• Business case creation, feasibility study and solution evaluation: analysing and assessing risks and impacts of solution options, performing cost-benefit analysis and collaborating with a variety of stakeholders to achieve an investment decision.
• Strategy analysis: exploring and analysing current situations, internal and external strategic drivers, implementation strategies and identifying risks and impacts of a desired implementation approach.
• Process Design: ability to document both the AS-IS and TO-BE situations for relevant business domains
• Planning and monitoring deliverables: monitor and manage their own BA and wider project deliverables. Escalate and manage risks and issues as they arise.
• Change Delivery: Helping identify impacts to the Business, Processes, IT Systems and Organisational structure.
• Business readiness - Planning and co-ordinating communications and training to support the Project implementation
• Collaborative working: Active participants and contributors within the Bank's BA practice
• Operates in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework (including sub-frameworks) and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate and timely escalation of any concerns to their line manager.

Key Skills:

• A core BA skill set supplemented with proven experience of financial transformation.
• Excellent finance domain knowledge
• Effective Stakeholder Management
• Able to effectively communicate to varying levels of Stakeholders
• Analytical approach to work; varying ways to problem solve (eg data analysis, MI), root-cause analysis etc.
• Be able to work autonomously and as part of a wider team
• Practical experience and an understanding of both Agile and Waterfall ways of working
• Experience in modelling business processes, preferably BPMN or other industry modelling standards
• Experience using a variety of BA software tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio etc.
• Experience working within the Financial Services sector is also desirable

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other