Junior Business Analyst

Monmouthshire Building Society; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services organization in Cardiff is seeking a Junior Business Analyst to join their Business Change Team. The role involves identifying business problems, defining requirements, and supporting stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate will be proactive and eager to develop skills, working collaboratively to enhance solutions. This position offers varied health benefits, a generous pension scheme, and opportunities for home working after training completion.

Benefits

25 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Health cashplan cover (optional)

Qualifications

• Self-starter with eagerness to develop skills.
• Ability to constructively challenge stakeholders.
• Identify business problems and document processes.

Responsibilities

• Work with colleagues and third parties to identify business problems.
• Support the definition of requirements and solutions.
• Facilitate workshops and document business processes.

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 for 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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Business Change Team for a permanent Junior Business Analyst based across our Cardiff and Newport offices, with opportunity for home working.

What we will offer you as one of our valued colleagues

• 25 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 Programme, subsidised flu jabs and eye tests.
• Private healthcare (optional from day 1).
• Dental cover (optional from day 1).
• Health cashplan cover (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.
• Critical illness cover.

What will you be doing?

As a Junior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for working with colleagues and third parties with the aim of identifying business problems and supporting the definition of requirements and solutions which meet complex business needs in line with our ambitious strategy. You will support the facilitation of workshops, identifying appropriate attendees and ensuring requirements are fully documented.

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.

What type of person will you need to be?

The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with an eagerness to develop their skills to include the use of a broad range of tools and techniques to elicit requirements definition and resolve conflicts. You will be able to constructively challenge stakeholders at all levels whilst building positive working relationships to ensure optimum solutions and safe delivery is achieved.

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.