Senior Business Analyst - Custody & Settlements
Albany Beck is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join a major global financial services transformation programme. This is an excellent opportunity for a consultant who thrives in complex post-trade environments and enjoys owning analysis from problem statement through to solution design and delivery.
You’ll work across a range of strategic initiatives spanning settlement, custody, asset servicing, cash management, and market infrastructure change, partnering closely with Operations SMEs, Technology teams, and senior stakeholders.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead end-to-end business analysis across large-scale securities services and operations transformation initiatives.
- Engage with stakeholders to gather, challenge, and refine business requirements.
- Analyse current-state processes and design future-state operating models.
- Facilitate workshops with senior Operations and Technology SMEs.
- Translate complex business problems into practical, scalable solutions.
- Support technology teams through requirements clarification, testing, and implementation activities.
Example Project Areas
- Market infrastructure and settlement change programmes.
- Settlement messaging and process analysis.
- Custody and asset servicing transformation.
- Cash management and account structure optimisation.
- Operating model design and process re-engineering.
- Regulatory and market-driven change initiatives.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong Business Analysis experience within financial services.
- Deep understanding of securities services, custody, settlements, or asset servicing operations.
- Experience working on complex post-trade change programmes.
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
- Ability to work independently, challenge assumptions, and drive outcomes.
- Experience documenting business requirements, process flows, and target operating models.
- Exposure to market infrastructure environments.
- Settlement and messaging knowledge.
- Experience with custody platforms, securities processing, and cash operations.
- Background within global custodians, investment banks, market infrastructure providers, or securities services organisations.
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Custody Business Analyst employer: Albany Beck
At Albany Beck, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in the heart of London or Birmingham with a hybrid working model. Our commitment to your professional growth is evident through our focus on learning and development, ensuring that you have the tools and support needed to thrive in your role as Head of Data & Customer Intelligence. Join us to be part of a collaborative culture that values customer-centric thinking and drives meaningful change within the Financial Services sector.
