Global Design Business Analyst

Global Design Business Analyst

Duration: 6 Months Possibility for extension)

Location: London/Hybrid (2 - 3 days per week on site)

Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate is available for suitable candidates

Role Overview

The Global Design Business Analyst will play an essential role on a major global compliance programme, capturing clear requirements for global design initiatives, supporting product owners and delivery teams, and helping to produce high quality documentation that will be used as the basis for global rollout.

BCBS239 is a set of principles for risk data aggregation and risk reporting, which has become the de facto standard for high quality data management and reporting. As part of our Data Management Global Coordination Team (GCT), EMEA are leading a programme of work to secure and maintain compliance with BCBS239 globally and this role will form part of a core Global team that will coordinate delivery of global initiatives, while also helping regional teams (in EMEA, Americas, APAC, East Asia and our Tokyo HQ) to deliver against their compliance obligations.

We are looking for someone who has strong data management, data governance, and data & analytics subject matter knowledge. You will have experienced business analysis skills as the role will require an ability to break down problems and regulatory concepts into understandable, implementable designs and solutions. You should have experience of working in financial services and ideally large risk, finance or regulatory programmes.

You will be required to develop a good understanding of the Bank's business processes and interface with our Global stakeholders and across our regions and be sensitive to different cultural approaches.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting and contributing to meetings, workshops, and discovery sessions with business owners, SMEs, and stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to elicit, clarify, translate, and document business requirements (functional and non-functional)
• Define problem statements, scope, objectives, and success criteria aligned to initiative strategy and outcomes
• Working closely with stakeholders to develop designs and processes through to closure
• Produce clear, version controlled, high quality documentation
• Preparation of design governance papers to support review and approval through programme and BAU governance committees
• Collaborating with the wider data family, including analysts, engineers, and product managers
• Build productive cross-functional relationships with a network of business stakeholders, technical delivery teams and external suppliers

Skills & Experience:

• Experience of working in the financial services industry
• Experience working in a data team and collaborating cross-functionally to identify, scope and develop solutions
• Familiarity across a range of data & analytics disciplines (e.g. data governance & management, data quality, business intelligence, data engineering, ad hoc analytics)
• Experience of the business analysis process end to end; information gathering through to design approval and benefits realisation
• Experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Junior Project Manager or similar role.
• Understanding of project management principles and approaches like waterfall and agile
• Effective written and verbal communication skills: (i) comfortable presenting to, and facilitating group sessions, of business users at all levels, (ii) ability to describe technical solutions to non-technical colleagues
• Documentation excellence; ability to produce high quality, version controlled artefacts (e.g. BRD, user stories, TOM)
• Stakeholder management skills and ability navigate ambiguity and align diverse stakeholders
• Ability to plan and manage own work to meet challenging deadlines with minimal supervision
• Proficiency in standard tooling; JIRA, Confluence, Visio, MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PPT, MSP)
• Knowledge of BCBS239 principles and requirements
• Experience of working across multiple jurisdictions and cultures
• Use of industry standards and frameworks (e.g. DAMA, DCAM)
• Data management tooling experience or proficiency (metadata/lineage, DQ platforms, reporting solutions)
• SQL skills to support requirements and data analysis, ideally including both raw and aggregated data with the ability to review transformation logic

Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role 'apply now' to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.

We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.

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