• Job Description

  Req#: JR0011663

  Senior Business Analysts

  Salary: National ranging from £49,700 to £64,500 and London from £53,300 to £70,000

  Do you have a proven track record in ensuring business outcomes are articulated and understood? Are you keen and interested in developing people in business analytics functions?

  The team/department

  Our Change Directorate is at the forefront of our ambition to transform the FCA into a data-led regulator, and our work enables the FCA to effectively regulate some of the UK’s most complex financial markets.

  The Business Analysis (BA) team, alongside our other Change delivery disciplines, work closely with our business areas to deliver our extensive and diverse portfolio of change.

  Our portfolio of change covers cyber and information security; data, technology and intelligence; risk management; sanctions; end user compute and other technology refreshes in order to ensure we can effectively regulate the financial service sector, ensure consumers are protected from harm and there is effective market competition.

  What you will be doing (the role)

  • You will play a prominent and active role in developing the Business Analysis Community of Practice (CoP). Actively contributing on key CoP initiatives (e.g., BA away days, developing new skills and capabilities and training needs analysis)

  • Sharing BA ways of working with individuals working on your assigned project (e.g., inducting contractor BAs on which templates to use, or helping Project Managers to understand the BA approach

  • Project Delivery will be the focus of your role and you will set the strategy for your assigned project, through definition of the business analysis approach, ensuring that all BA output on the project is fit-for-purpose, represents value for money, and is delivered on time

  • You will be involved in high risk, high reputation and technical orientated projects that enable the organisation to deliver its regulatory obligations

  • Ensuring that business outcomes are delivered through effective requirements management using BA best practice techniques and tools. You will apply your requirements elicitation experience, together with your ability to engage the business in understanding their needs to deliver business solutions

  • You will add value to our technical and complex change portfolio, through modelling our current and future states; understanding our data and intelligence needs; modelling our operating model and being able to engage effectively with our delivery partners and product groups

  • Working collaboratively with project stakeholders, business subject matter experts, suppliers, technical stakeholders, and product groups to deliver the project outcomes to the highest possible standards in a hybrid working environment. Using this close engagement to proactively identify opportunities which add value for the whole team

  What you will get from the role

  • Exciting opportunity to be at the heart of making the FCA a data led regulator of the future

  • Working on innovative and technology focused change, using data, intelligence and digital solutions to improve our decision making and reduce harm within financial services

  • Part of a strong and active community of practice that has regular engagement, events and is constantly striving to improve the BA profession

  • Driven personal development planning and encouragement to become professionally certified business analysts, with organisation support and plenty of career development opportunities that are actively supported

  Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

  Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

  • 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

  • Private healthcare with Bupa

  • A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)

  • Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

  • Income protection

  We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

  The skills and experience you will have

  Minimum

  We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.

  • Proven experience of working as a “Senior Business Analyst” or “Consultant”

  • Demonstrable evidence of working in project/programme environments involving business & IT change

  • Evidence of Business analysis experience within any of the following types of organisations/sectors: financial services, government/regulatory body, technology, consultancy (ideally IT consultancy)

  Essential

  • Vast knowledge of business analysis tools, techniques and best practice approaches, including end-to-end requirements management

  • Shows pragmatism in being able to select and adapt the right approach for the right situation

  • Can quickly develop domain knowledge to effectively and credibly engage with stakeholders on the problem statement

  • Delivers quality outputs at pace in both structured, and fluid/challenging project environments

  • Assures the delivery of business requirements to ensure that the solution is fit for purpose

  • Experience of project lifecycles delivered within a range of project delivery methodologies including Waterfall & Agile

  • strong engagement with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and establishes good relationships with business sponsors, project stakeholders, and supplier delivery teams

  • Accomplished problem-solver who constructively challenges the status quo, keeps an open mind, and can develop innovative solutions

  • Attained BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or working towards completing it

  About the FCA

  The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.

  The FCA's Values & Diversity

  Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

  We particularly welcome applications from women, disabled, and minority ethnic candidates, as under-represented groups.

  Flexible working

  We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

  Multi-location

  As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

  Useful information

  Applications for this role close at 23:59 on 3rd October 2023

  This role is graded as Senior Associate – Regulatory

  Got a question?

  If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:

  For internal applicants, please contact Sara Holland at Sara.Holland2@fca.org.uk

  For external applicants, please contact Ifrah Azam at Ifrah.Azam@fca.org.uk
  

  What to expect from our interview process

  The assessment process consists of an initial screening call with one of our Recruitment Partners. If successful, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview.

  Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.

• About the company

  The Financial Conduct Authority is a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, but operates independently of the UK Government, and is financed by charging fees to members of the financial services industry.

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