Principal Business Analyst

Kensington Mortgages; Marlow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kensington Mortgages is seeking a Principal Business Analyst to lead complex business change and translate challenges into practical solutions that improve ways of working and support strategic priorities. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, project and product teams, guiding analysis from discovery through implementation, embedding measurable outcomes and ensuring commercial soundness.

We’re looking for someone with financial services experience and strong leadership to drive capital

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Principal or Senior BA in financial services.
• Experience leading analysis across large, complex or regulatory projects.
• Strong business architecture and ability to align analysis with strategic goals.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis across complex business problems, shaping the approach and defining requirements.
• Influence strategy, future operating models, processes, systems and capabilities.
• Develop and maintain business architecture aligned to Kensington's strategic goals.
• Build strong senior stakeholder relationships, prioritising business needs.
• Lead workshops to define outcomes, user requirements, data needs and high-quality business requirements.
• Support planning, estimation, impact assessment and change readiness across analysis, delivery and implementation.
• Work with Change Management, Business Implementation and IT colleagues to ensure requirements are delivered and benefits realised.

Job description

We're Hiring: Principal Business Analyst

We're looking for an experienced Principal Business Analyst to lead complex business change across Kensington.

This is a high-impact role for someone who can translate business challenges into clear, practical solutions that improve ways of working and support strategic priorities.

You'll work closely with senior stakeholders, project teams and product teams, leading analysis from discovery through to implementation and ensuring outcomes are clearly defined, commercially sound and successfully embedded.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead analysis across complex business problems, shaping the approach, defining requirements and partnering with Project Managers, Product Managers and the BA Manager to deliver the right outcomes.
• Influence business strategy, future operating models, processes, systems and capabilities through strong business architecture and analysis.
• Develop and maintain business architecture aligned to Kensington's strategic goals and change priorities.
• Build strong senior stakeholder relationships, influencing decisions and ensuring business needs are clearly understood and prioritised.
• Lead workshops to define outcomes, user requirements, data needs and high-quality business requirements.
• Support planning, estimation, impact assessment and change readiness across analysis, delivery, implementation and support activity.
• Work with Change Management, Business Implementation and IT colleagues to ensure requirements are delivered, adopted and benefits are realised.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Principal or Senior Business Analyst, ideally within financial services, a regulated environment or a relevant transferable industry.
• Experience leading business analysis across large, complex and/or regulatory projects and programmes.
• Strong business architecture experience, with the ability to connect analysis activity to wider strategic goals.
• Confident using formal and hybrid analysis techniques to define and document requirements within complex change programmes.
• Good understanding of agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery models.
• Strong communication, facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively across diverse teams and levels of seniority.
• Comfortable leading change, creating clarity and bringing people with you through complex transformation.
• Logical and analytical thinking, with the ability to create practical strategies and solutions.
• Strong planning, prioritisation and time management skills.
• Leadership, influence and clear communication to drive action.
• A positive, resilient and proactive approach, with confidence working through ambiguity.
• Self-motivation and the ability to manage competing priorities to tight deadlines.
• Work on high-profile capital markets transactions
• Gain exposure to both Kensington Mortgages and Barclays
• Collaborate with experienced professionals across structured finance, treasury, risk and capital management

Develop your technical, analytical and commercial expertise in a dynamic, highly regulated environment

Play a key role in supporting strategic capital management and transaction execution

If you're passionate about structured finance, data analytics and capital markets, and you're looking for an opportunity to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.