Business Analyst - Financial Services

Introduction
At IBM Consulting UK Future Now, you’ll build a career at the forefront of hybrid cloud and AI, working with leading clients across the public and private sectors.
You’ll collaborate with top industry professionals, gain hands on experience with cutting edge technologies, and deliver solutions that create real business impact. From day one, you’ll work on meaningful, high profile programmes that stretch your skills and accelerate your growth.
We invest heavily in you—supporting continuous learning, in demand skills development, and long term career progression. You’ll thrive in a flexible, inclusive environment that values curiosity, encourages reinvention, and recognises what makes you unique.
We offer:
Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group pension plan through salary sacrifice.
In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.
Your role and responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our team. This individual will lead the analysis and documentation of business requirements, as well as facilitate collaboration between stakeholders and development teams.

Responsibilities:

Gather, document, and analyze business requirements from various stakeholders.
Define project scope, objectives, and success criteria in collaboration with stakeholders.
Support cross-functional teams in translating business needs into functional and technical specifications.
Contribute to the creation of business cases, process flows, and user stories.
Facilitate workshops, meetings, and training sessions to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Required education
None
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Extensive experience as a Business Analyst or Technical Business Analyst in banking/financial services.
Strong understanding of banking processes  digital channels  and data integration concepts.
Familiarity with banking products and processes such as account management  payments  lending  and treasury operations
Experience with regulatory and compliance requirements affecting banking technology (e.g.  AML  KYC  PCI-DSS  SOX  data privacy regulations)
Hands-on experience with Agile delivery  JIRA  Confluence  and process modelling tools (Visio  BPMN  Lucidchart).
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail; SQL/data analysis capability preferred.
Excellent communication  stakeholder management  and documentation skills.Proven experience in business analysis and requirements gathering.
Ability to work well in a team and adapt to changing priorities.
This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
Preferred technical and professional experience
Experience with business analysis tools (e.g., Lucidchart, Visio, JIRA).
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and Scrum framework.
Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC).
Experience in data analysis and reporting.
Passion for continuous learning and professional development.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT:

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.
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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
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At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS:

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.
Job Title

• Business Analyst
• Financial Services
  Job ID
  105384
  City / Township / Village
  London, Hursley, Leicester, Manchester
  State / Province
  Hampshire, London, City of, Manchester, Leicester
  Country
  United Kingdom
  Work arrangement
  Hybrid
  Area of work

Data & Analytics:

Employment type
Regular
Position type
Professional
Travel required
Up to 80% or 4 days a week (home on weekends - based on project requirements)
Company
(1387) IBM Service Centre UK Limited
Shift
General (daytime)
Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position?
No
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