Business Analyst, Operations Centre of Excellence

• Take on a critical high profile role in the Operations Centre of Excellence, defining and realising fantastic solutions, processes, benefits and new opportunities
• You’ll be delivering the five year strategic vision for Operations, transforming the operational capability across the bank and helping us to shape the future of our operations by delivering pan-bank innovative solutions
• It’s a great chance to hit the ground running and make a tangible impact on the bank’s operational capability as you work in a vibrant, forward looking team

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be managing the analysis of complex cross franchise and pan group requirements, while capturing, validating and documenting business and system requirements and making sure that they are in line with key strategic principles and the Operations strategy.

In the course of your work, you’ll work closely with key stakeholders across the business to create, shape, define and own pan-operations and individual franchise opportunities. You’ll build, manage and maintain positive working relationship with stakeholders at different levels of hierarchy and third party suppliers across multiple franchises and functions.

You’ll also:

• Create and maintain documentation, as well as support controls and quality assurance for key stakeholders and suppliers
• Identify upstream failure demand in processes and propose remediation to prevent flow of work into operations
• Trace and link business requirements to future state design and communicate business needs into technical requirements
• Create and execute test scenarios and test scripts at various stages of the project in order to validate the solution design
• Facilitate user acceptance testing and support business users in executing the user acceptance testing

The skills you'll need

You’ll need to hold an appropriate business analyst certification, such as BAX, CPRE and CBAP. You should be comfortable working with ambiguity and have the ability to pay keen attention to detail and drive progress at pace.

It’ll be ideal if you have experience of working with large scale automation or AI and strategies that are tangible and grounded, as will be a background in business design and experience of Agile processes and ceremonies.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of applying business analysis tools and techniques to include the use of a wide range of data such as Operational, Technology, Finance and HR to support problem solving and decision making
• Experience of delivering change within a banking operations team driving measurable business outcomes
• The drive to understand emerging technical capabilities and how these might be leveraged by Operations
• The ability to engage and communicate with multiple stakeholders at senior level across the bank
• An analytical mindset, with strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your work
• Critical thinking skills, enabling you to cut through complexity, and make sound decisions and recommendations that are carefully balanced against risk