Senior Business Analyst

Business Unit / Team: Chief Operating Office
Salary range: £36,800 - £52,200 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits

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Our Team
As a Senior Business Analyst you’ll be part of a collaborative Business Analysis team that help to deliver our strategic Economic Crime Portfolio. You’ll work within what is a fast-paced environment, where you’ll be assigned to work on Projects that deliver technical and business change, enabling us to remain regulatory compliant, as well as driving transformational change against the ever-evolving challenges of Fraud and Financial Crime.
The Business Analysis team that you’ll be part of has a diverse range of backgrounds and skills, with some at the start of their Business Analysis careers and others highly experienced.

What you’ll be doing
• Working on a range of Projects that deliver business and technical change to prevent and detect Economic Crime (Fraud/Financial Crime)
• Responsibility to lead the analysis work on one or more streams of activity within that Project
• Providing support to other Business Analysts that you work with e.g., peer reviews, recommending appropriate techniques, offering guidance
• Building relationships with stakeholders across the business, bringing together the right people to truly understand what our customers and end users want
• Working proactively and collaboratively with those around you, ensuring you provide estimates for your tasks, input in to planning, timely progress updates, and input into Project risks and issues on an ongoing basis
• Providing requirements consultancy throughout the Project lifecycle ensuring that your delivery and test colleagues are supported in their understanding of what is required

We need you to have
• Significant experience of leading on Business Analysis activities, using different methodologies, tools and techniques gained by working on multiple projects
• The ability to manage your workload and priorities effectively, be a self-starter, well organised and able to work independently on complex tasks.
• Demonstrable experience of working with stakeholders at various levels including identifying, engaging, managing expectations and communicating with confidence
• Experience of using Business Analysis tools such as Jira, Miro and Visio.
• Experience of creating user stories and associated acceptance criteria, along with a proven capability of elicitation of those requirements.
• Confidence in creating detailed process maps using industry standard techniques.
• The capability to work with business stakeholders to identify and assess the impacts of Project change.
• First class inter-personal skills, coupled with strong influencing abilities and a can-do attitude to keep focussed on delivering the right business outcome.

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
• Recognised Business Analysis qualifications
• Experience of working within Financial Service
• Experience of working in Economic Crime (Fraud or Financial Crime)

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK (where the role allows)

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with. We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We strive to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money’, underpins everything we do. We believe in doing banking differently, innovating and working together to make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.