Data Governance & Controls Business Analyst, Financial Crime Technology

NatWest Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial institution as a Data Governance & Controls Business Analyst in Manchester. You will play a vital role in enhancing the data control framework and collaborating with various stakeholders to drive data strategy initiatives. If you have a strong grasp of Agile methodologies and a passion for financial crime technology, this opportunity is for you. Collaborate within a dynamic team while working in a hybrid setting, balancing remote work with vital in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• Understanding of Agile values and principles, with experience in an Agile environment.
• Ability to articulate ideas and requirements using use cases and user stories.
• Good communication skills for conveying complex technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Transforming and maturing control framework and producing business requirements.
• Building and maintaining positive working relationships with stakeholders.
• Capturing and documenting business and system requirements.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Business analysis tools

Education

Business analyst certification

Tools

Jira

Visio

Blueworks

Job description

Join us as a Data Governance & Controls Business Analyst, Financial Crime Technology

• Harness your passion for Agile to deliver key elements of our financial crime date strategy, focusing on data management, ensuring Financial Crime aligns to the data control framework and data risk standards
• Take on a critical role supporting the bank to achieve customer advocacy by eliciting and understanding the internal and external technology customer needs
• You'll be working in a highly collaborative, forward looking team and helping us to shape the future of our business
• You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a minimum two days per week working from the office

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be transforming and maturing control framework and producing business requirements to inform future state design, supporting teams in understanding the requirements and their linkages to the overall data strategy and roadmap. In the course of your work, we’ll also look to you to build, manage and maintain a positive working relationship with stakeholders and third party suppliers across multiple franchises and functions.

You’ll also be:

The skills you'll need

We’ll look to you to bring a good understanding of Agile values, principles and methodologies with experience of working within an Agile environment. Ideally, you’ll hold an appropriate business analyst certification, but this isn't essential.

You’ll also need:

• Supporting others to articulate the ideas and requirements in the format required by the team, such as use cases, user journeys, user stories and illustrations
• Capturing, validating and documenting business and system requirements and making sure that they’re in line with key strategic principles
• Interacting with customers, key stakeholders and the team to obtain and document functional and non-functional needs
• Analysing existing system documentation to summarise existing system functionality as it relates to the work at hand
• Supporting the identification of team priorities based upon feedback from the customers, key stakeholders and the team
• Experience of applying business and data analysis tools and techniques
• Experience of data control frameworks
• Experience of applying business analysis tools and techniques
• Good communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of Jira, Visio, Blueworks or other common Business Analysis tools would be advantageous