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 collaborating with senior stakeholders, managing requirements engineering, and ensuring effective communication throughout the project lifecycle. The ideal candidate will possess strong financial domain knowledge and experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Key responsibilities include business case creation, process design, and change delivery to support the project's successful implementation.

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)
• Document the requirements in the form of user stories supported with acceptance criteria and ensure 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 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
• Operate in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures

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 (e.g. data analysis, MI), root-cause analysis etc.
• Ability 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 Area

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other