Senior Consultant, Business Analysis

Overview

In this role you will independently deliver Business Analysis activities on defined projects, starting with a major AI and automation programme. You will partner with business, product, operations, technology and risk teams to interpret problems, define requirements and support testing and implementation. The position may also touch strategic, regulatory, data and change initiatives across the organization. You will work to translate needs into testable requirements and help shape target operating models while ensuring quality and traceability.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business problems, opportunities and expected outcomes
• Conduct feasibility, process and impact assessments
• Assess and document AI, automation and technology-enabled use cases
• Plan and facilitate requirements workshops and stakeholder interviews
• Elicit, document and validate: business and functional requirements; epics and user stories; acceptance criteria; process and data requirements; business rules and controls; assumptions, risks and dependencies
• Translate business needs into clear, structured and testable requirements
• Define expected solution outcomes, human-review points and exception processes
• Work with business and technology teams to support solution design
• Identify process, data, technology, operational and control impacts
• Contribute to target operating models, including processes, roles, responsibilities and hand-offs
• Support test-scenario development, business testing and defect analysis
• Maintain traceability from business need through requirements, testing and implementation
• Support pilot planning, implementation readiness, adoption and value measurement
• Manage assigned Business Analysis deliverables with limited supervision
• Escalate unresolved requirements, risks, dependencies and decisions
• Apply established Business Analysis standards, methods and templates
• Use approved digital and AI-enabled tools to improve analysis quality and efficiency, with appropriate validation and human review

Key requirements

• Ability to convert ambiguous needs into clear, testable requirements
• Working knowledge of feasibility analysis, testing and operational readiness
• Strong stakeholder-engagement, facilitation and communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliverables
• Understanding of Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery methods
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry is desirable
• Exposure to artificial intelligence, automation, data or digital products is desirable
• Specialist AI-development experience is not required
• Business Analysis, Agile or project-delivery qualification is advantageous
• Experience using requirements-management, process-modelling or delivery-management tools is advantageous

• stakeholder-engagement
• facilitation
• communication
• feasibility analysis
• requirements elicitation and management
• process modelling

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