Senior IT Business Analyst

Join us as a Senior IT Business Analyst (BA) to support the IB Syndicate organisation achieve its strategic goals, helping identify and shape solutions to business problems and opportunities. 

To be successful as a Senior IT Business Analyst, you should have the following skills/experience:

• Significant experience as a Lead/Senior Business Analyst on large projects, scoping and planning business analysis effort, agreeing engagement approach with senior stakeholders and mentoring and directing other BAs.
• Practical application of an Agile methodology and guiding others towards best practice in a multi team context.
• Identifying, analysing and prioritising business requirements.
• Designing user workflows, writing clear user stories, and owning and refining the product backlog.
• Managing diverse, senior stakeholders with sometimes conflicting needs.
• Experience  in Investment banking or real-time trading or similarly demanding environment.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Good understanding of relational database table structures – ideally with experience of writing SQL queries.
• UML.
• Process mapping.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk awareness and governance, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in Knutsford.