Principal Business Analyst

Job Description

We're Hiring: Principal Business Analyst

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Location: Hybrid,1xday per week min in Marlow

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Department: Business Change

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Monday-Friday / Permanent

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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.

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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.

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What You'll Be Doing

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• 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.

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• Influence business strategy, future operating models, processes, systems and capabilities through strong business architecture and analysis.

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• Develop and maintain business architecture aligned to Kensington's strategic goals and change priorities.

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• Build strong senior stakeholder relationships, influencing decisions and ensuring business needs are clearly understood and prioritised.

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• Lead workshops to define outcomes, user requirements, data needs and high-quality business requirements.

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• Support planning, estimation, impact assessment and change readiness across analysis, delivery, implementation and support activity.

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• Work with Change Management, Business Implementation and IT colleagues to ensure requirements are delivered, adopted and benefits are realised.

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Essential Experience & Knowledge

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• Proven experience as a Principal or Senior Business Analyst, ideally within financial services, a regulated environment or a relevant transferable industry.

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• Experience leading business analysis across large, complex and/or regulatory projects and programmes.

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• Strong business architecture experience, with the ability to connect analysis activity to wider strategic goals.

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• Confident using formal and hybrid analysis techniques to define and document requirements within complex change programmes.

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• Good understanding of agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery models.

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• Strong communication, facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively across diverse teams and levels of seniority.

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• Comfortable leading change, creating clarity and bringing people with you through complex transformation.

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Required

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• Logical and analytical thinking, with the ability to create practical strategies and solutions.

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• Strong planning, prioritisation and time management skills.

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• Leadership, influence and clear communication to drive action.

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• A positive, resilient and proactive approach, with confidence working through ambiguity.

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• Self-motivation and the ability to manage competing priorities to tight deadlines.

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Why Join Us?

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• Work on high-profile capital markets transactions

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• Gain exposure to both Kensington Mortgages and Barclays

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• Collaborate with experienced professionals across structured finance, treasury, risk and capital management

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

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

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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

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