BA Lead

Expleo; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

ExpleoAcademy

Competitive benefits

Collaborative environment

Team international collaboration

Zusammenfassung

Expleo seeks a Senior Business Analyst to drive a UK banking transformation from Equation to Finacle in London, with collaboration across Riyadh. You will lead stakeholder engagement, define requirements, map regulatory needs and shape a pragmatic change roadmap.

You will ensure data migration, testing and business readiness are executed effectively, while identifying risks and opportunities for continuous improvement.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in financial services and UK banking environments.
• Strong understanding of business analysis in large-scale transformations.
• Regulatory awareness and risk/tranformation readiness.

Aufgaben

• Act as senior BA between London, Head Office and Finacle team.
• Lead workshops, requirements definition and impact assessments.
• Support data migration validation, UAT and cutover activities.
• Identify risks, dependencies and opportunities for improvement.

Kenntnisse

SDLC expertise

Stakeholder mgmt

Analytical thinking

Consulting skills

Communication

Distributed teams

Ausbildung

BA/Banking or Finance degree

BA/FS qualifications

Tools

Infosys Finacle

Equation

Flexcube

Temenos

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

The Senior Business Analyst will support the transformation of a UK banking operation through the migration from the existing Equation core banking platform to a new Finacle implementation, working closely with business stakeholders in London and the wider Finacle implementation team in Riyadh.

The role will combine strong Business Analysis and consultancy capability with practical financial services and core banking experience. The successful candidate will lead stakeholder engagement, business process analysis, requirements definition, gap and impact analysis, regulatory mapping and business readiness activities to ensure the new solution meets the needs of the London operation.

The role will also contribute to understanding the wider business architecture of the London branch, identifying operational pain points, risks and opportunities and helping shape a pragmatic roadmap for business and technology change.

Responsibilities

• Business Analysis & Consultancy
  • Act as the senior BA and key conduit between the London business, Head Office in Riyadh and the Finacle implementation team.
  • Engage senior stakeholders and SMEs to understand business objectives, processes, requirements and concerns.
  • Lead workshops, process analysis, requirements definition, gap analysis and impact assessments.
  • Challenge requirements and ways of working constructively, identifying opportunities for simplification, standardisation and improvement.
• Core Banking Transformation
  • Analyse the impact of replacing Equation with Finacle across business processes, people, data, systems, controls and regulatory requirements.
  • Support the definition of future-state processes, local configuration requirements and functional scope, leveraging existing ANB Finacle capabilities and knowledge.
  • Define and validate requirements for data migration, interfaces and system integrations.
  • Identify and manage business, operational, regulatory and implementation risks and dependencies.
• Testing, Migration & Business Readiness
  • Support data migration validation, business testing, UAT, business simulation and defect resolution.
  • Develop and review business test scenarios and scripts aligned to requirements and critical business processes.
  • Support transition, cutover, training, communications and business readiness activities.
  • Provide business support through implementation and post-go-live where required.
• Business Architecture & Continuous Improvement
  • Assess the London operation across people, processes, data, compliance and systems to identify pain points, risks and opportunities.
  • Contribute to business capability, process and systems views and identify opportunities for business and operational improvement.
  • Support the development of a pragmatic change roadmap aligned to strategic objectives, business value, risk and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience in Business Analysis, Banking, Finance, Business, Technology or a related discipline.
• Relevant Business Analysis, Banking or Financial Services qualifications.

Essential skills

• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle and technology delivery processes.
• Ability to understand and analyse the relationship between business processes, people, data and technology.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and consulting skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to act as an effective conduit between business and technology teams.
• Ability to work collaboratively with geographically distributed teams and offshore implementation teams.

Experience

• Significant Business Analysis experience within financial services, preferably banking.
• Practical UK banking experience, with an understanding of the regulatory, operational and customer requirements of a UK banking environment.
• Experience working on core banking transformation, system implementation, migration or replacement programmes.
• Experience working with packaged software solutions and adapting business processes to standard product capabilities.
• Strong experience in business process analysis, requirements elicitation, gap analysis and impact assessment.
• Demonstrable experience facilitating workshops and engaging effectively with senior stakeholders and business SMEs.
• Experience translating business requirements into clear functional and system requirements.
• Experience analysing data, interfaces, system dependencies and migration impacts within a transformation programme.
• Experience supporting business and/or User Acceptance Testing, including test scenario and script development.
• Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Previous experience with Infosys Finacle, particularly core banking implementation or migration.
• Experience with Equation, Flexcube, Temenos or other banking platforms.
• Experience across core banking products such as deposits, lending, corporate banking or treasury.
• Experience of UK banking regulatory requirements and controls.
• Experience of data migration and business validation within core banking transformations.
• Experience of interfaces and integrations between core banking and surrounding banking applications.
• Experience developing business architecture, capability models or transformation roadmaps.
• Experience supporting business simulation, dress rehearsal, cutover or post-go-live activities.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive