Senior Business Analyst - Change Delivery Lead

ACCA Careers; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Bonus up to 15%

Pension up to 11%

Private healthcare

Employee benefits portal

Job summary

Yorkshire Building Society is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead analysis across complex change programmes, shaping discovery, scope and approach. You will own requirements strategy, traceability and validation, ensuring high-quality outcomes across business and technology delivery.

You will collaborate with architects, product owners and delivery leads, coach other BAs, and influence senior stakeholders with clear options and recommendations that drive value and measurable results.

Qualifications

• Extensive BA experience across complex change programmes.
• Strong requirements engineering, process modelling and impact assessment skills.
• Experience leading analysis across multiple teams or workstreams.
• Experience of people leadership empowering colleagues to own objectives and development.
• Excellent senior stakeholder engagement and influencing capability.
• Experience coaching, mentoring or quality assuring other BAs.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and create clarity from complexity.
• Strong collaboration, quality focus and outcome-led thinking.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end business analysis across large or complex initiatives.
• Shape discovery, problem statements, scope and analysis approach.
• Own requirements strategy, traceability, validation and acceptance across change delivery.
• Conduct capability, operating model, process and impact assessments.
• Work with architects, product owners, delivery leads and SMEs to shape feasible solutions.
• Coach, lead and guide Business Analysts, ensuring quality of analysis outputs.
• Influence senior stakeholders with clear insight, options and recommendations.

Skills

Business Analysis

Requirements engineering

Process modelling

Operating model

Impact assessment

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching

Mentoring

Leading analysis

Job description

Yorkshire Building Society is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead analysis across complex change programmes, shaping discovery, scope and approach. You will own requirements strategy, traceability and validation, ensuring high-quality outcomes across business and technology delivery.

You will collaborate with architects, product owners and delivery leads, coach other BAs, and influence senior stakeholders with clear options and recommendations that drive value and measurable results.