Lead Business Analyst, Process & Automation (Belfast - remote)

Lightspeedhq; Belfast City District; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Equity options

Pension contributions

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Lightspeed seeks a Lead Business Analyst, Process & Automation to own end-to-end projects across the Capital and Payments team. You’ll map, diagnose, design and implement improvements with automation, data, tooling, and AI-driven workflows.

You’ll coordinate with stakeholders, run pilots, and drive adoption, with a focus on measurable outcomes and a strong analytical approach to unlock efficiency and scale across payments, lending, underwriting, risk, and billing.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in business analysis, process improvement, operations, or related roles.
• Proven track record leading complex cross-functional projects from problem definition to outcomes.
• Experience using data, queries, and dashboards to validate problems and prove outcomes.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business needs into clear requirements and delivery plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Extensive experience in financial services, fintech, payments, lending, or insurance is a plus.
• Experience evaluating or deploying AI-enabled solutions in operations.

Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end processes, map flows, and understand how processes run in practice.
• Diagnose root causes, quantify time/money/customer impact, and design improvements.
• Translate findings into clear requirements, better flows, and delivery plans with measurable success criteria.
• Build or coordinate automation, tooling, data, and controls the teams depend on.
• Lead testing, launch readiness, measure impact, drive adoption, and hand ownership back.
• Establish how AI agents are used in operations with bounded, multi-step workflows.
• Partner with cross-functional teams and translate findings into business cases for Product/Tech.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Cross-functional leadership

Presentation skills

Data modelling

SQL

BI tools

AI deployment experience

Process automation

Tools

Workflow platforms

Case management platforms

Process automation tools

Job description

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well... you might just be in the right place! We're looking for a Lead Business Analyst, Process & Automation to join our Capital and Payments team. Process & Automation is a small team working across the operations behind payments, lending, underwriting, risk, and billing. We find operational friction, diagnose root causes, and build the process, data, tooling, and automation solutions that fix it.

You will own projects end to end: find where a process is failing or create toil, prove it with data, design something better, coordinate the build with stakeholders, and stay with it until the receiving team owns it and the numbers have moved. AI is a default tool in how we work rather than a separate initiative. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with full ownership of your projects.

What you'll be doing

• Define: map end-to-end flows, trace handoffs, and understand how a process actually runs rather than how it is documented.
• Diagnose: separate root causes from symptoms and quantify where time, money, and customers are being lost.
• Design: turn what you find into clear requirements, better flows, and delivery plans with measurable success criteria, then build or coordinate the automation, tooling, data, and controls they depend on.
• Instrument: lead testing and launch readiness, track impact against agreed measures, drive adoption, and hand ownership back to the team that owns the outcome.
• Establish how we use AI agents in operations: identify where they create real leverage, then design, test, and deploy them for bounded, multi-step workflows, including the evaluation methods that prove they work.
• Partner with teams outside operations whose work affects these outcomes, and turn operational findings into business cases that help Product and Technology prioritize longer-term solutions.

What you need to bring

• 7+ years in business analysis, process improvement, operations, implementation, or product operations.
• A track record leading complex cross-functional projects from problem definition through implementation and ongoing measurement.
• Strong analytical skills - you use data, queries, and dashboards to validate problems and prove outcomes, not only to report on them.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous business needs into clear requirements, process designs, and delivery plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, and presentation skills, with a track record of driving alignment and outcomes across teams you do not manage.
• Even better if you have, but not necessary: Financial services, fintech, payments, lending, or insurance - or another complex, regulated operating environment.
• Commerce, e-commerce, point-of-sale, or marketplace experience.
• Hands-on experience with workflow, case-management, or process-automation platforms.
• SQL, business-intelligence tools, or data modelling.
• Experience evaluating or deploying AI-enabled solutions for operational use cases.
• Experience driving adoption and effectiveness after launch, not just delivery.

Be a changemaker

You'll enjoy

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work
• A culture that celebrates performance
• The chance to make an impact in a team that's big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard
• Career-defining opportunities
• Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.
• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies
• Equity options, because this is your company too
• Contributions to your pension plan.
• Your future matters
• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
• Health and wellness credit so you feel your best
• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community
• Interest groups, employee-led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams
• Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook
• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families
• Etc...

Fuel your growth. Find your people.

At Lightspeed, your growth is our priority

We invest in you with continuous learning opportunities, global mobility and benefits designed to support you-all within a driven, diverse and inclusive team that's passionate about empowering our communities

We know that people are more than what's on their CV.

Please note that we ask applicants to disclose any criminal convictions, and we conduct criminal record checks as part of our hiring process for this role.