Lead Business Analyst

The Lead Business Analyst will be responsible for:

Providing support to Programme Business and Workstream Leads

Line managing a team of Business Analysts

Managing the delivery of business analysis outputs across Workstreams

Hands-on business analysis

Knowledge transfer, skills development and mentoring to Programme colleagues

Key skills

Business modelling including modelling organisation structures and job roles (M)

Business process mapping (M)

Eliciting and capturing business requirements (M)

Drafting business requirements documents (BRD) (M)

Functional (FR) and non-functional (NFR) requirement capture (M)

Managing requirements catalogue and managing requirements traceability (M)

Collation business information and artefacts (M)

Drafting operating, desk, and user instructions (M)

Managing stakeholder relationships at all levels (M)

Able to effective communication with a range of audiences (M)

Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity (M)

Developing product backlogs (epics, features, and user stories) (D)

Developing user journey’s and identifying pain points (D)

Supporting the development of operating models (D)

Data analysis (D)

Experience & Knowledge

3-5 years in a Lead Business Analyst role in transformation programmes (M)

3-5 years line management experience (M)

3-5 years in a transformation and business change environment (M)

Data analysis, data science, data architecture and / or data transformation (M)

Working in an agile / SCRUM programme environment (M)

Working in a matrix management programme environment (M)

Working in a regulated environment (M)

Bank of England, banking, or financial institution experience (D)

Lean / six-sigma methodologies (D)

Project management methodologies (D)

ISEB Diploma Business Analysis (D)

(M) Must Have

(D) Desirable