Senior Business Analyst
Posted Today by Caspian One
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Business Analyst role is a strategic position focused on enhancing middle and back office operations within the financial services sector. The analyst will lead process improvement initiatives, facilitate stakeholder alignment, and transition manual workflows to more efficient solutions. This position requires strong domain expertise and the ability to influence across business and technology teams. The role is hybrid, requiring four days on-site in London.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a trusted bridge between business and technology teams across middle and back office functions
- Lead and facilitate workshops, working sessions, and stakeholder meetings, driving clarity and alignment
- Document current-state processes and design future-state workflows and target operating models
- Identify process inefficiencies, gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement
- Support the transition from manual, Excel-based processes to more scalable and controlled solutions
- Produce high-quality visual documentation, including process flows, swimlanes, and workflow diagrams
- Work closely with stakeholders across London, Bermuda, and Nashville, accommodating multiple time zones
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst within middle and/or back office functions in financial services
- Strong understanding of cash management, collateral management, cash movements and approvals, and related operational processes
- Experience working in environments with manual or Excel-heavy workflows and leading initiatives to improve them
- Strong capability in process mapping, workflow design, and target operating model definition
- Comfortable working in Agile or hybrid environments with lean documentation
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
- Tenacious, pragmatic, and outcomes-focused
- Able to take end-to-end ownership and drive momentum independently
- Strong interpersonal skills and experience working across cultures and geographies
- Background working with bespoke or in-house systems
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: Finance
Senior Business Analyst (Contract – Outside IR35) Location: London (Hybrid – 4 days per week on-site) Contract: Outside IR35 Sector: Financial Services
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a strategic transformation initiative across middle and back office operations within a financial services environment. This role is focused on process improvement, operating model definition, and stakeholder alignment, with particular emphasis on cash management, collateral, and manual Excel-driven workflows. It is a strategic, senior-level position requiring strong domain expertise, ownership, and the ability to influence across business and technology teams. You will play a key role in shaping the future operating model, rather than simply delivering predefined requirements.
- Key Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted bridge between business and technology teams across middle and back office functions
- Lead and facilitate workshops, working sessions, and stakeholder meetings, driving clarity and alignment
- Document current-state processes and design future-state workflows and target operating models
- Identify process inefficiencies, gaps, risks, and opportunities for improvement
- Support the transition from manual, Excel-based processes to more scalable and controlled solutions
- Produce high-quality visual documentation, including process flows, swimlanes, and workflow diagrams
- Work closely with stakeholders across London, Bermuda, and Nashville, accommodating multiple time zones
Required Experience
- Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst within middle and/or back office functions in financial services
- Strong understanding of: Cash management Collateral management Cash movements and approvals Related operational processes
- Experience working in environments with manual or Excel-heavy workflows and leading initiatives to improve them
- Strong capability in process mapping, workflow design, and target operating model definition
- Comfortable working in Agile or hybrid environments with lean documentation
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
Desirable Attributes
- Tenacious, pragmatic, and outcomes-focused
- Able to take end-to-end ownership and drive momentum independently
- Strong interpersonal skills and experience working across cultures and geographies
- Background working with bespoke or in-house systems