Senior Business Analyst - Northampton

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Introduction

We need:

- Senior Business Analysts - Business Analysis Practice

- Northampton Office

- Salary range from £40,721 - £52,032 dependent on skills and experience

Are you looking to continue your career in Business Analysis? Do you want to be involved in helping to shape and deliver an exciting transformation agenda? If the answer is yes then we may well have the right role for you.

We're on a journey. Growing in size and taking steps forward in several areas including; the introduction of an industry leading requirements tool, further definition and expansion of our BA services, capability mapping and estimating, to name a few.

As Business Analysis practitioners, we have the exciting challenge of being at the very core of helping to deliver Nationwide's Regulatory and Business Transformation agenda. Through an annual investment in change projects, we strive to make sure that the organisation remains competitive, continues to evolve and provides outstanding service to our members.

Who we're looking for

Firstly you must enjoy all activities associated with a Senior Business Analyst role. This will include task management of Business Analysts, elicitation of requirements for complex issues, requirements traceability, process re-engineering and business readiness. Within each of these activities you'll work collaboratively with other areas of the business and manage various stakeholders.

We're looking for individuals with the ability to quickly develop an excellent understanding of business processes and needs, and who have experience working with ambiguity in a fast paced, often challenging environment.

You'll have the confidence to use a number of proven elicitation techniques and analysis methodologies to challenge appropriately and seek solutions to complex problems, with the ability to work in partnership with various colleagues across the project lifecycle.

As a minimum requirement you'll have:

- Prior experience working as a Senior Business Analyst

- Possess excellent communication and influencing skills

- Experience of leading business analysis resource within a project or programme

- Expert knowledge of analysis tools, methodology and best practice and will be able to apply structured analysis expertise on assigned projects

- Experience working with 3rd party suppliers

- End to end project lifecycle experience

It would be nice if you also have:

- Relevant professional qualification in analysis disciplines, such as BCS modules/diploma

- Experience of working with a Rational suite of products

- Financial services knowledge

What you'll be doing

Your aim will be to ensure Nationwide obtains the best value, and that the solution delivers excellent customer service.

You'll plan and task manage a small number of Business Analysts to develop high quality deliverables as defined by our Business Analysis services to our defined quality standards.

Your good people and engagement skills will aid you in motivating your analysts to work collaboratively with our partners and stakeholders providing confidence in our delivery and reporting against your plans.

You'll support the business with understanding more complex needs and bring to life their needs by leading workshops and facilitating discussions. This will lead to the production of Functional and Non-Functional requirements.

Role responsibilities:

- Conduct peer reviews of deliverables to ensure that quality standards are met on all outputs

- Apply structured analysis expertise on assigned projects and work closely with stakeholders to shape and manage their expectations

- Work on complex projects, helping to identify and articulate risks and issues

- Provide timely updates to project and programme managers and your leaders within the Business Analysis Practice

- Help shape and drive Business Analysis at Nationwide through the continuous improvement & transformation of our practice

The extras you'll get

If you put a lot in, it's only fair you should get a lot out. So if you help us do the right thing for our customers, we'll help further your career at Nationwide. As well as your salary, there's life assurance, a pension and a recognition and rewards scheme. We think it's a great place to work, and we're not afraid of giving you praise when you've done well.

Why work for us

At Nationwide we're here for our members and we put their needs first in everything we do. And now, more than ever, two things are helping us go from strength to strength: we put our customers first, and we're known for being open, honest and trustworthy.

We're also the world's largest building society, with communities at the heart of everything we do. We aim to do the right thing for our members which helps set us apart from our competitors. But we need good people to help us do it. People who understand what we believe in, and have the talent and drive to keep us successful.

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