Lead Systems Analyst - Remote, Data & Compliance

AWD online; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits

Job summary

AWD online is seeking a Lead Systems Analyst to shape technology and business change across a complex multi-application environment. You will own discovery, requirements, data integrity, compliance, delivery and analyst mentoring.

This senior role offers remote working with hybrid/office options near Heathrow/Hounslow, and you will translate objectives into traceable requirements across IT, Finance and Compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data/compliance or systems analysis in a tech-enabled environment.
• Strong requirements elicitation, documentation, traceability, process mapping and data-flow analysis skills.
• Ability to read and interpret SQL queries to interrogate data and validate system outputs.
• Advanced capability with process and data-flow mapping tools such as Visio.
• Working knowledge of integrations, system interactions, data quality, Excel, reporting tools, backlog management and UAT.
• Experience using Jira or Azure DevOps, Confluence and structured BA/SA governance artefacts.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Leadership and Mentoring: Guide analysts across multiple projects, support escalations, conduct peer reviews and promote consistent analysis standards.
• Discovery and Requirements: Lead feasibility and impact analysis, clarify business drivers and translate complex objectives into traceable, testable systems requirements.
• Data Integrity and Flows: Map end-to-end data flows, identify gaps and inconsistencies, maintain documentation and help resolve data issues across systems and integrations.
• Data Quality Controls: Define validation rules, monitoring and controls to identify data-quality issues proactively and support accurate reporting.
• Compliance and Regulation: Translate GDPR, customs, duty-calculation and other regulatory obligations into system controls, monitoring and audit evidence.
• Stakeholder Management: Bridge business, IT, Finance, Compliance, Project and global teams, provide clear updates and represent data and compliance requirements in governance forums.
• Testing and Change: Coordinate requirements traceability, UAT and QA validation, manage change impacts and support release readiness.
• Release and BAU Transition: Coordinate go-live, cutover, business validation, knowledge transfer and post-release issue prioritisation, confirming solutions are stable and meeting business needs.
• Continuous Improvement: Improve analysis practices, templates, governance and documentation, sharing lessons learned across future initiatives.

Skills

Lead analyst experience

Requirements elicitation

Data-flow analysis

SQL

Visio

Jira/Azure DevOps

Excel/Reporting

Stakeholder management

Governance artefacts

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Visio

Job description

AWD online is seeking a Lead Systems Analyst to shape technology and business change across a complex multi-application environment. You will own discovery, requirements, data integrity, compliance, delivery and analyst mentoring.

This senior role offers remote working with hybrid/office options near Heathrow/Hounslow, and you will translate objectives into traceable requirements across IT, Finance and Compliance.