Senior Business Analyst

Here at Yorkshire Building Society, we are entering the next phase of our transformation journey to deliver a great experience for our members and provide real help with real lives. We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst, with the drive, passion and experience to join our Business Change team and be part of this exciting transformation journey.

This is a hybrid role with remote working and some onsite presence in our Leeds or Bradford offices.

This is a fixed term contract - 9 months.

About the role

As our next Senior Business Analyst, you’ll be involved across all stages of our change framework; from helping to influence strategic change initiatives through to definition and delivery. You’ll have the opportunity to be part of our Business Analysis Centre of Excellence within the Society’s Business Change team, as well as work as part of a team in support of the delivery of our Strategy. You will

• Develop, own and monitor business analysis plans in support of broader project delivery
• Understand complex business problems and inform the appropriate solutions to meet the desired business outcomes
• Plan, lead and undertake high level and detailed analysis activity to gain a full understanding of the business requirements, including the assessment of impact on people, processes, data and technology
• Inform non-technical delivery (e.g. process/procedure changes) through the creation of key business focussed artefacts
• Be responsible for traceability of requirements from strategic outcomes through build, test and delivery
• Work collaboratively with delivery teams to enable successful implementation of the change, within either a Waterfall or Agile environment
• Contribute to and evolve the Business Analysis Centre of Excellence

About you

You’ll be a self-starter with excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills. With the capability to articulate solutions in a business context, you’ll have extensive experience of influencing business and technical stakeholders to achieve desired business outcomes. In addition, you will

• Be experienced in eliciting requirements and performing detailed current to future state gap analysis, working with a range of stakeholders, and ensuring traceability from business outcomes all the way to delivery
• Have extensive knowledge and proven practical experience of core business analysis tools and techniques, either in a Waterfall or Agile environment
• Have a desire to share knowledge and grow the Business Analysis Centre of Excellence
• Have the ability to work autonomously, within teams and lead analysis activities