Senior Business Analyst (London) - Contract

Senior Business Analyst

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join us in our London office. To succeed in this role you must be able to: face off to business teams, apply an organised, proactive approach to your work, ensure you add value to the team and constantly develop your business knowledge and awareness.

Role Responsibilities

• Work with the product owner and the business to develop and detail the product backlog in the form of Epics, Features and Stories.
• Help the business owners and teams to prioritise work.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management experience, including working with senior stakeholders such as Senior Portfolio Managers, with the ability to communicate effectively at a level and depth appropriate to the audience.
• Act as the communication channel between product owners, business owners and the Agile delivery team you work within.
• Contribute to the planning and execution of system and acceptance testing.
• Undertake JIT analysis and documentation to support the team’s sprint activities.
• Be involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle across different business areas within Insight.
• Build and maintain a good working relationship with the business representatives, working across teams and multiple sites.

Experience Required

• Skill in collecting and interpreting data, analysing results to identify patterns and trends in structured and unstructured data sets.
• Ability to apply suitable analytical approaches to requirements discovery, documentation and solution delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management experience with the ability to effectively communicate at a level and depth appropriate to the audience.
• Demonstrable experience of gathering requests and technical specifications.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams using Scrum or Kanban.
• Ability to review and advise on suitable changes to streamline processes, while identifying actual rather than perceived pain points.
• Participates in definition of cross-team initiatives for new processes / frameworks / architectures. Committed to and will take ownership for driving towards change initiative or solution. Will bring relevant teams together and leverage key stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Risk awareness
• A thirst for knowledge and curiosity to help solve complex problems with a keen eye for detail.
• A sense of personal responsibility and the drive to own problems, can work self-directed and independently to accomplish results.
• Knowledge in financial markets, pricing analytics for LDI/Fixed income instruments.
• Knowledge on Yield Curves and risk analytics such as PV01/IE01
• Promotes a positive team culture. Identifies and implements ways to improve teamwork. Builds effective relationships throughout the organisation.
• Experience with reading and debugging SQL code
• Understanding of AI-enabled tools, technologies, and practical applications, with the ability to apply these appropriately within the role to enhance productivity, decision-making, or business outcomes.