Business Analyst - Banking and Payments

Senior Business Analyst (Contract) | London Hybrid - 50% on site | 6 Months | SC Cleared We're supporting a leading financial institution in their search for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join a major transformation programme. This role offers the opportunity to work on high-impact change initiatives across banking, payments, trading and treasury environments. Key Responsibilities • Elicit, analyse and manage complex business requirements • Facilitate workshops and engage senior stakeholders • Produce process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria • Drive discovery, current-state and future-state analysis • Support product backlog refinement and prioritisation • Conduct impact assessments and identify risks and dependencies • Collaborate across business, technology and delivery teams to drive successful outcomes Essential Experience • Proven experience as a Business Analyst delivering complex change programmes, projects or products • Minimum 5 years' experience within Banking and Payments, with exposure to Trading, Investment Banking and/or Treasury • Strong requirements management, process modelling and stakeholder engagement skills • Experience working across Agile, Waterfall and Product delivery environments • Excellent communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills Desirable Experience: • Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM), including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Fraud Detection and Sanctions Screening solutions • ERP programmes, ideally SAP • Data Business Analysis, including data requirements, data modelling, data quality, data lineage, reporting and analytics • Experience in loan valuation, asset-backed securities, collateral management and risk modelling • Experience within financial markets, securities settlement or market infrastructure, including CREST and post-trade processes • CRM transformation programmes, covering customer, stakeholder and operational process improvement initiatives If this role is of interest to you, please apply now! Please note if you do not currently hold SC Clearance if successful you will need to go through this process.