Senior Business Analyst

Nationwide; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Swindon is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to bridge business needs with data-driven solutions. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders, translating requirements, and supporting solution delivery. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical skills and experience in business analysis. A hybrid working model is offered, enabling flexibility between office and home work.

Benefits

Personal pension scheme

Up to 2 days of paid volunteering

Life assurance

Access to health and wellness options

Annual performance-related bonus

Training and development opportunities

25 days holidays pro rata

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis or solution design.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Proven analytical skills in defining business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Support colleagues to understand needs and translate them into requirements.
• Establish influencing relationships with business stakeholders.
• Identify best business outcomes influencing technology resolutions.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Communication skills

Problem identification and resolution

Collaborative approach

Job description

Overview

At Nationwide, the Data and Analytics area is at the forefront of leveraging data to drive innovation and deliver value to our members. Our Data and Analytics team builds and maintains robust, scalable, and secure data infrastructure to support our key stakeholders in achieving business goals.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team. This role bridges business needs with data-driven solutions, enabling informed decision-making across the organization. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of data systems, and the ability to collaborate with and influence senior stakeholders to capture complex requirements and support the design and delivery of solutions that add significant value and help meet the Society’s needs.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best. At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible, bringing colleagues together across our UK-wide estate while supporting access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, learn, and feel connected.

For this job you’ll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you’ll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon or London office. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

Responsibilities

• A key priority for this role is to support colleagues within the Data and Analytics team and use strong communication skills to engage with diverse teams across the organisation to understand their needs and translate them into requirements for Engineering teams to deliver.
• Establish influencing relationships with business stakeholders and the leadership team.
• Use relevant experience in business analysis or solution design to identify solutions and approaches that achieve the best business outcomes, influencing technology and business resolutions with confidence and innovation, considering external factors and dependencies.
• Use initiative with a proactive mindset to identify, escalate, and resolve issues/risks. Strive for continuous development and embed Best Practice Techniques.

About you

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, document, and analyse requirements related to data and analytics initiatives.
• Translate business needs into clear data requirements and work with data engineers and analysts to implement solutions.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings to understand business processes and identify data-driven enhancements.
• Experience delivering, prioritising, sequencing and sizing Business Analysis activities.
• Proven analytical skills in defining business outcomes, requirements, process modelling, operational designs, target operating models, and end-to-end delivery.
• Adept at problem identification and resolution, providing meaningful insight and recommendations to facilitate solution discussions.
• Strong understanding of project governance deliverables.
• Collaborative approach, working with other change roles to ensure the full breadth of change is understood.
• Ability to confidently communicate and present information to senior stakeholders, reporting on progress, blockers, and challenges.
• Ability to accommodate the differing needs of multi-disciplined and geographically dispersed teams, including internal and external resources such as third-party suppliers and contractors.

Our customer-first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours every colleague needs to display in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, empathise with them, and ensure decisions start and finish with customers in mind.
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out, honest, and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives.
• Push for better - We challenge the status quo and pursue continuous improvement and personal development.
• Get it done - We prioritise impactful work, are decisive, and take accountability for delivering great customer outcomes.

The extras you’ll get

• A personal pension - if you contribute 7% of your salary, Nationwide will top up by a further 16%.
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering per year.
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary.
• A range of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Wellhub - Access to health and wellness options.
• Annual performance-related bonus.
• Training to help you develop and progress your career.
• 25 days holidays, pro rata.

We are Purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly Customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.