Senior Business Analyst

at  St Jamess Place

St. James’s Place (SJP) works in partnership to plan, grow and protect our clients’ financial futures. We deliver personalised, face-to-face financial advice to our clients, who trust us to manage their money to reach their goals. We provide this service via the Partnership, a network of qualified, expert advisors. We put financial wellbeing and responsible business choices at the heart of everything we do. We believe in the value of difference and know that diverse teams can help us problem solve and innovate for clients.
We look for people to join SJP to make an impact and to contribute to our culture which is based around long term relationships, doing the right thing, and being the best version of ourselves.
Location: Cirencester Office
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Permanent
Seniority: Mid-Senior Level
The role:
The primary objective of this role is to provide business analysis within a Wealth management company. Acting as an adviser to the business you will be working at multiple levels using your industry experience to operate within a business change environment. You will be responsible and accountable for the business analysis work within a project.
You will be a highly experienced BA with significant expertise in understanding business needs and managing stakeholder relationships. With these skills you will also help shape the practice and help it evolve over time and in addition, be able to provide mentoring and coaching to less experienced BA’s.
At times it will be expected for you to work across multiple projects and programmes simultaneously.

What you’ll be doing:

• Producing the appropriate artefacts required by the project.
• Communicating and reporting effectively within the programme and to the wider BA practice.
• Demonstrating the correct behaviours and acting as a role model for the BA practice.
• Where appropriate, provide coaching to support the growth and development of our BA Practice. This could include responsibilities such as guidance, mentoring, sharing ideas and examples of existing practices and encourage their adoption.
• Where appropriate coordinate the work of other BA’s within the programme or project. Delegating and taking ownership of tasks and being accountable for the work produced.
• Where appropriate, ensuring the quality of the work produced by other BA’s meets the necessary standards. Ensuring Programme deliverables are met within agreed timescales.
• Working effectively with the senior project team and stakeholders, conducting investigations, planning, and be instrumental in the success of the project.
• Take responsibility for the management of stakeholder relationships across various levels of seniority. Ensure that stakeholder perspectives are identified and analysed with a view to achieving consensus.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong analytical skills and will be proficient in applying techniques which help when investigating, analysing, modelling, and recording a business area or system.
• An excellent understanding of different development approaches such as Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience working on a breadth of large-scale systems and business change programmes.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ideally, an accreditation (full or partial) with the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.

• Producing the appropriate artefacts required by the project.
• Communicating and reporting effectively within the programme and to the wider BA practice.
• Demonstrating the correct behaviours and acting as a role model for the BA practice.
• Where appropriate, provide coaching to support the growth and development of our BA Practice. This could include responsibilities such as guidance, mentoring, sharing ideas and examples of existing practices and encourage their adoption.
• Where appropriate coordinate the work of other BA’s within the programme or project. Delegating and taking ownership of tasks and being accountable for the work produced.
• Where appropriate, ensuring the quality of the work produced by other BA’s meets the necessary standards. Ensuring Programme deliverables are met within agreed timescales.
• Working effectively with the senior project team and stakeholders, conducting investigations, planning, and be instrumental in the success of the project.
• Take responsibility for the management of stakeholder relationships across various levels of seniority. Ensure that stakeholder perspectives are identified and analysed with a view to achieving consensus