Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst
Edinburgh

Basic salary up to £50k depending on knowledge skills and experience, plus car allowance, competitive benefits and a great working environment.

Are you an experienced Senior Business Analyst who enjoys working as part of a team? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced change environment? Want to feel part of a growing financial services brand? Then this could be the opportunity for you. In this role you will be responsible for completing the scope, requirements analysis and business solution design aligned with the strategy for medium to large sized projects or workstreams.

You’ll be:

-Leading, designing and facilitating business engagements to establish scope, business needs, project objectives, outcomes and expectations on business processes
-Working with business analysis team to ensure that quality business requirements are produced, accepted and approved by the key stakeholder and business solution designs can deliver effectively
-Overseeing end to end traceability against quality business requirements using appropriate tools and templates
-Engaging with key stakeholders to influence the solution design to meet business goals, scope and strategy requirements. Providing input into the identification and delivery of project benefits, traceability of requirements and impact of solutions. Developing cross business and service user communications, acceptance test plans and supports testing and implementation
-Developing good knowledge across a number of individual business/product areas, understanding interdependency and the impact of change to provide informed consultancy advice, independent review and quality assurance
-Defining the project objectives, scopes overall approach, plans and completes standard Change documentation and tools
-Building and maintaining networks with a diverse group of stakeholders to influence and support the delivery of projects and champions the business analysis function
-Managing, motivating and developing assigned team members to create a high performing team

You’ll bring:

-Experience in the financial services industry
-Experience of regulatory change
-Knowledge of dealing with 3rd party suppliers
-Excellent analytical problem solving skills and strong attention to detail
-Strong team working skills with the ability to working closely with others to deliver results
-Customer focused
-A proven track record of working on own initiative, with the ability to introduce fresh thinking to the role and the wider team
-An ability to think and reason logically
-Strong relationship management skills
-Exceptional communication skills - the ability to communicate effectively with anyone in any environment, e.g. able to translate complex / technical issues to meet the audience's competency level

Us:

We’re proud to be different. We offer an award-winning product range that includes insurance, savings, loans, credit cards, mortgages and travel money. As well as being the first British supermarket to open a bank, our people, values and new offices create a great working environment where we can focus on what our customers want.

Sainsbury's Group provides a very diverse range of products and we value the same diversity within our business. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer