Women in Data®
Senior Business Analyst in Business Analysts
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Job Description
The Role
The Senior Business Analyst (BA) role sits within the Technology Directorate. Business Analysts enable the Bank to meet its objectives by working on technology change initiatives. As part of cross-functional teams and working closely with business colleagues, BAs elicit, analyse, and create a shared understanding of requirements to enable successful implementation of change initiatives.
Flexible Working Options
This role is open to flexible working patterns, which may include:
- Job share
- Flexible start and end times each day
- Part-time work
- Ability to adapt the calendar as needed (e.g., to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments)
- A 50% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns (e.g., the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks)
- Working from abroad policy (subject to approval and team policy)
Opportunities in Leeds
We’re excited to be growing our presence in Leeds, a city we’ve been connected to for nearly 200 years! Our modern, accessible office in the City Centre offers a supportive, flexible working environment. The majority of roles, including this one, are now available in Leeds, giving you the chance to build a meaningful career outside of London while contributing to our mission from a dynamic and growing location. You’ll work collaboratively with London-based colleagues in a hybrid model, with regular opportunities to travel into the London office to meet and connect in person.
Want to learn more? Discover what makes our Leeds office such a dynamic place to work by visiting our Leeds page for more details.
A Day in the Role
A typical day might start with the team’s stand-up meeting for the current sprint, where you’ll discuss your workload and any blockers. You may be joining from our Leeds or London office, or remotely as part of our hybrid model.
Next, you could work on refining requirements or attend a workshop with stakeholders to map processes and identify improvements. Later, you might produce analysis artefacts such as process flows or impact assessments to support delivery teams. If you’re in the office, you could lunch in the canteen with some of your colleagues. In the afternoon, you may attend a BA Community of Practice continuous improvement session followed by a catch-up with developers and testers, ensuring solutions meet business needs. Before wrapping up for the day, you’ll update documentation and share outputs, so the wider team has clarity on next steps.
Role Requirements
Minimum Criteria
- Demonstrable experience working as a Business Analyst on projects or programmes, responsible for analysing and managing business requirements.
- Ability to produce clear and concise analysis artefacts such as process maps, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience facilitating workshops or stakeholder meetings to elicit requirements and validate solutions.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proficiency in applying standard business analysis tools and methods (e.g., process modelling, gap analysis).
- Solid knowledge of project delivery and product management approaches (Agile and/or Waterfall).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for documentation and reporting.
- Experience working within banking or financial institutions and delivering projects related to banking, insurance, supervision, or regulatory data.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Essential Criteria
- Educated to degree level and/or holding a recognised Business Analysis qualification (e.g., BCS BA Diploma, IIBA CBAP) or equivalent experience.
- Proven track record as a Business Analyst on complex projects or programmes, ideally within financial or regulatory environments.
- Strong experience across the full software development lifecycle, with practical knowledge of both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Conduct thorough impact assessments for proposed changes to systems and processes, identifying risks, dependencies, and potential business impacts.
- Ability to coach and mentor colleagues on Agile principles.
- Skilled in developing and using operating models and business processes, including BPMN 2.0.
- Expertise in eliciting, analysing, communicating, and documenting business and solution requirements using a range of BA techniques (e.g., process models, wireframes, use cases, data models).
- Experience producing high-quality outputs from high-level concepts to detailed specifications, including functional and technical artefacts.
- Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills, able to engage large and diverse groups and manage uncertainty effectively.
- Strong problem-solving and influencing skills, with the ability to exercise independent judgement and escalate issues appropriately.
Desirable Criteria
- Awareness of business architecture principles and frameworks.
- Experience in data management, including data journeys, analysis, integration, and migration.
- Experience in developing customer journeys and user research.
- Exposure to supporting scaled Agile methodologies within Waterfall environments.
- Certification in recognised delivery methods such as Agile or DevOps.
- Understanding of product and project management practices, including resource and time management.
- Operating at SFIA Level 4 for the following SFIA v9 skill: "Performs diverse complex activities, supports and guides others, delegates tasks when appropriate, works autonomously under general direction, and contributes expertise to deliver team objectives.”
Business Situation Analysis
- Requirements Definition and Management
- Business Modelling
- Business Process Re-engineering
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Methods and Tool
Salary and Benefits Information
We encourage flexible working, part-time working, and job-share arrangements. Part-time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.
Salary
- Leeds: circa £49,360 - £55,530
Benefits
- Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
- A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
- An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
- 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
- Private medical insurance and income protection.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
The Application Process
Important: Please ensure that you complete the ‘work history’ section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It’s therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.
This role closes on 18th August 2026.
The assessment process will comprise of two interview stages.
Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed.
About Us
We are the UK's central bank - and we are a bank like no other; known by our peers for our world-leading thinking on policy and strategy.
Our mission is to promote the good of the people of the UK by maintaining monetary and financial stability. We seek to keep prices stable and people's money safe. We know our work matters to people, to families, up and down the UK. We are driven by curiosity and the desire to do important, challenging work.
It takes a great team to run the Bank of England. We rely on each other to play our part. We benefit from a collaborative culture and long-established flexible ways of working, supporting our colleagues balance their work and personal lives. We strive to be a place where people feel they belong and have equal access to opportunities, because different perspectives helps us make the best decisions for the public.
There's much to gain from working with us - from career-defining work at the heart of the UK economy, being part of a fantastic team, and a rewarding compensation package.
Join us and find a bank like no other. Together, we can make a difference.
The Bank of England will use and protect the information you provide when you apply for a role with us, in line with our obligations under data protection law. This is so we can assess your suitability for the role and administer your application. If you’re successful, we’ll use it to offer you a position and onboard you to join the Bank.
If you would like more details about how your information will be used and your information rights, please visit our recruitment privacy notice.
Women in Data® advertise roles on behalf of our partners, alliances, and members. We are proud supporters of Women in Data. Connect, engage, and belong to the largest free female data community in the UK – visit: www.womenindata.co.uk to join our community.
Stay connected! Follow us on LinkedIn for updates on career opportunities and more.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location