Senior Business Analyst

About the Role The Senior Business Analyst supports the successful delivery of strategic and significant change initiatives by providing high-quality analysis, structured documentation and clear insight to support decision-making and delivery. The role contributes to the development and implementation of target operating models, business process documentation and requirements definition, working closely with Project Execution, business stakeholders, technology teams and control functions. What You'll Do

• Support strategic and priority change initiatives, with a strong focus on acquisitions, integration and business change.
• Partner with Programme and Project Managers, sponsors, business stakeholders, technology teams and control functions to shape scope, delivery plans, dependencies, risks and intended outcomes.
• Develop a clear understanding of acquisition scope, strategic rationale, key risks, assumptions and functional impacts to support mobilisation, planning and decision-making.
• Translate due diligence findings into structured gap analysis, requirements, target operating model inputs and planning actions.
• Elicit, analyse and validate requirements, user stories, business rules and acceptance criteria, ensuring they are clear, prioritised, traceable and aligned to delivery needs.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews and playback sessions, including preparing workshop plans, artefact lists, review packs, sign-off checklists and open-item trackers.
• Map current-state and target-state processes, booking models, trading flows, data flows, system dependencies and integration flows to identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Develop target operating model artefacts covering people, process, technology, data, controls, governance, reporting, operational readiness and handover requirements.
• Support solution validation and user acceptance testing, including test scenario development, requirement clarification, defect triage and evidence-based SME validation.
• Maintain consistent BA standards, templates, documentation practices and reusable artefacts to support governance, audit, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time. What We're Looking For
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with the ability to assess complex business issues, identify root causes and develop practical solutions.
• Advanced business process mapping and modelling skills, including documenting current and target states clearly and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Good understanding of target operating models and the ability to translate business change into practical impacts across people, process, technology, data, controls and governance.
• Confident stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build relationships, facilitate discussions, influence constructively and align stakeholders across business, technology and control functions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, structured documentation and present complex information in a concise and accessible way.
• Collaborative and approachable team player who supports a positive working environment and contributes to shared team standards and ways of working.
• Resilient, adaptable and delivery-focused, able to manage competing priorities and maintain quality in fast-paced or challenging environments.
• Intellectual curiosity, a continuous improvement mindset and a commitment to developing BA capability and reusable best practice. Nice to Have
• Experience in mergers and acquisitions is strongly preferred. Compensation & Benefits
• Not disclosed in the posting.