Senior Business Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead the discovery and requirements gathering process with stakeholders from Finance, Data, and Technology.

• Identify the problem, define the scope, outline business outcomes, use cases, and comprehensive requirements.

• Facilitate workshops to challenge assumptions, address ambiguities, and reconcile conflicting stakeholder needs.

• Create and manage epics, features, user stories, process/data flows, and acceptance criteria.

• Analyze the impacts on Finance processes, Oracle, Workday, data pipelines, models, controls, and reporting.

• Assist with prioritization alongside the Data Product Manager and contribute to delivery planning with the Delivery Manager.

• Ensure that requirements are testable, traceable, and aligned with data quality and reconciliation controls.

• Guide business input during UAT, manage defect triage, and ensure readiness for acceptance and implementation.

• Mentor and assure the work of other Business Analysts as necessary.

• Maintain thorough documentation and facilitate knowledge transfer.

• Generate an approved scope, outcomes, and a baseline of requirements.

• Deliver prioritized epics/features/user stories complete with acceptance criteria and traceability.

• Produce current process documentation, data-flow diagrams, and impact analysis reports.

• Define the UAT approach and scenarios, providing evidence for business acceptance.

• Document decisions, assumptions, and any unresolved requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience as a Senior Business Analyst in complex data, finance, or technology transformation projects.

• Capability to work independently with minimal guidance while taking full ownership of tasks.

• Proficient in requirements elicitation, workshop facilitation, process/data analysis, and user story development.

• Ability to confidently challenge senior stakeholders and resolve conflicting requirements.

• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams and across multiple suppliers in delivery settings.

• Strong grasp of testing, acceptance criteria, traceability, and change impact assessment.

• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to produce structured documentation.

• Background in insurance or financial services is preferred.

• Familiarity with Finance, FP&A, workforce metrics, FTE, costs, GL, or financial planning data.

• Experience with Oracle and/or Workday systems.

• Proven experience delivering solutions on GCP/BigQuery or a similar cloud data platform.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work on high-impact projects that drive organizational change.

• Collaborative work environment with a focus on professional development.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.