Business Analyst

Monmouthshire Building Society; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organization in Cardiff is seeking a Business Analyst to join their Business Change Team. The successful candidate will engage in eliciting business requirements and producing functional specifications for system implementations. Experience in finance systems and data migration projects is essential. This role offers a competitive benefits package, including healthcare and generous holiday allowances, and a commitment to ongoing training and development.

Benefits

28 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Option to purchase additional holidays

Private healthcare

Generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Various health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in finance systems is essential for the role.
• Experience leading production of requirements documentation.
• Ability to develop process diagrams and present end-to-end solutions.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and document business requirements and functional specifications.
• Facilitate requirements workshops and conduct solution walkthroughs.
• Map visual representation of end-to-end customer journeys.

Skills

Finance systems experience

Data migration projects

Strong analytical capabilities

Stakeholder management

Requirements elicitation

Job description

The Vacancy

Are you looking to build a career and make a difference - why not think about the Monmouthshire Building Society? We're on a journey to becoming an innovative, exciting, modern mutual and we'd love you to join us. We have an ambitious 5-year strategy with strong growth plans, and your role will play a crucial part in our success.

We are a community and values-based employer that puts both our people and our members at the heart of what we do. If you want to make a real difference to your community and career, then we'd love to hear from you...

About the role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Business Change Team for a permanent Business Analyst based at our Newport and/or Cardiff Head Offices with the opportunity of remote work.

We are seeking a Business Analyst with proven experience in finance systems, data migration projects, and strong analytical capabilities to support complex system implementations and transformation initiatives.

What we will offer you as one of our valued colleagues

• 28 days' holiday, plus bank holidays and a day off on your birthday to help you celebrate!
• Option to purchase additional holidays.
• Opportunity to work in an agile way to include home working, after your training has been completed.
• A commitment to your ongoing training and development including our internal rotational development programme (optional after successful completion of probation).
• Up to 14 Hours of paid Society leave to volunteer for a local community initiative each year.
• 'Dress for your Day' approach when in the office.
• Various health and wellbeing benefits such as 24-hour Employee Assistance Program, subsidised flu jabs and eye tests.
• Private healthcare (optional from day 1).
• Generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme - where the Society contributes a massive 10% on top of your 3% contribution!
• Life Assurance - 4 times your basic salary life cover for pension scheme colleagues
• Critical illness cover
• Dental cover
• Health cash plan cover (optional)

What will you be doing?

As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for eliciting and documenting comprehensive business requirements as well as producing functional specifications, solution designs and traceability matrices. You will be confident and comfortable facilitating and running requirements workshops, identifying appropriate attendees and completing end-to-end solution walkthroughs.

You will be required to liaise with stakeholders at all levels, identify continuous improvement opportunities, document "as is" and "to be" business processes and map visual representation of end-to-end customer journeys as well as identify opportunities for system exploitation to utilise existing functionality where appropriate.

What type of person will you need to be?

The successful candidate will be capable of deploying a broad range of tools and techniques to elicit requirements definition, resolve conflicts and constructively challenge stakeholders at all levels whilst building positive working relationships to ensure optimum solutions and best value for money change delivery is achieved. They will also have ability to coach and develop others to support the delivery of business analysis under their leadership.

Financial services experience in a similar role is a pre-requisite, together with a proven track record of leading the production of requirements documentation, developing process diagrams and presenting end-to-end solutions to key stakeholders at all levels.

The Company

Monmouthshire Building Society values the diversity that all sections of the community can bring to our Society, we welcome applications from everyone who shares our values.

As a financial services organisation regulated by the PRA and FCA our staff must be honest, financially sound and maintain high levels of competence and capability in their role. Therefore our pre-employment checks include adverse credit checks and criminal records checks (DBS checks) at a basic disclosure level for the majority of roles but at the standard level for certain roles.