
Senior Business Analyst - Regulatory & Compliance
- Chelmsford, Essex
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Demonstrable risk & compliance delivery experience with an understanding of the necessary control environments, frameworks, and governance.
- Knowledge of anti-financial crime compliance and risk frameworks. (Highly Desirable)
- Collaborate as part of project structures, as well as work independently, and engage with partners at all levels to drive outcomes, including the facilitation of business interviews and workshops using proven techniques.
- Preparing feasibility studies, defining minimal viable products (MVPs) and cost benefit analyses (jointly with PM / Finance).
- Utilise skills and experience in the areas of structured problem solving, business analysis, data analytics, design thinking, lean process improvement and undertake process design and process re-engineering to support performance excellence in the organisation to identify pivotal initiatives.
- Working with 3rd party suppliers to support system configuration activities, including gathering requirements from key partners for configuration tasks, reviewing system specifications and ensuring signoff is achieved from SMEs
- Use sophisticated data analysis techniques to provide insights into business performance and volumes data to support the critical initiatives in prioritisation of specific lines of business, processes and trading partnerships
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the business processes and activities that influence and are influenced by the product or service, ensuring alignment with the broader strategy. Engage with partners to understand their perspectives, needs, processes, and constraints to facilitate effective and efficient business process changes
- Assist in defining success metrics and support mechanisms for supervising throughout the service life cycles.
- Facilitate the implementation of new business strategies, systems, or processes by providing training and/or procedure documentation to ensure that teams are well-prepared to implement changes.
- Proactively identify potential risks and issues related to business requirements, process changes or project lifecycle.
- Guide as an expert practitioner and mentor within the Business Analyst community, responsible for supervising and coordinating the efforts of multiple Business Analysts.
- Supervise adherence to governance, policy and compliance, collaborating with partners to implement and supervise best practices.
- Excellent communicator
- Initiates, grows and maintains strong working relationships at all levels.
- Adapts' content, style and level of detail of written and verbal communications to fit numerous, diverse audiences
- Superb communication and presentation skills, both oral and written.
- Understands, articulates and translates business problems to define clear activities which result in desired solutions
- Effective in identifying problems, performing analysis to determine root causes
- Conducts feasibility studies with independence, open-mindedness incorporating business case and impact assessment to enable form opinions and present recommendations
- Solid understanding of analysis methodologies and development life cycles and an understanding of the fundamental analysis process and demonstrates a pragmatic application of these, appropriate to a given audience and/or situation
- Analyses the structure of the business, its goals and how process, technology and people influence current performance
- Identifies problems, threats and opportunities within a business, supported by data analysis to substantiate the magnitude and trend of the problem
- Excellent knowledge of technology and standard desk top packages: MS/Excel, MS/Word, MS/PowerPoint, MS/Visio
- Learns business concepts quickly
- Takes on additional responsibilities to ensure success of the project
- Formulates ways for businesses to improve operational efficiency, reduce operational risk, reduce expenses, enable scalable growth