Senior Business Analyst, Regulatory Data in Manchester

Company Description

At bet365, we are one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. We handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak. We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity.

Job Description

As a Senior Analyst, you will play a key role in determining the regulatory requirements through all phases of project delivery. The Data Engineering department is responsible for writing software and reporting systems to communicate jurisdiction specific information to international regulators. This supports the Business's long term strategy to secure newly regulated markets globally. You will be at the forefront of interpreting international gambling regulatory technical specifications, with a focus on the supply of information to government bodies. This will foster a shared understanding across the team, key stakeholders and relevant teams within the Business.

Key deliverables for this role are to provide comprehensive documentation and decision logging that can be worked through alongside Technical Leads and the wider team, to deliver technical solutions. Additionally, you will contribute to delivering future regulatory projects and improving documentation of existing systems for current regulated markets. This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company's hybrid working policy.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience as a Product or Business Analyst.
• Experience interpreting requirements from third party documentation with limited, indirect channels to the third party.
• Proven experience of fostering collaboration across key stakeholders to ensure requirements are clarified, fully understood and documented.
• Proven experience writing logical and technical documentation with a meticulous attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including good interpersonal skills.
• Experience of working within a cross-functional delivery team utilising agile principles.
• Strong collaborative skills with a proactive approach to seek clarity on regulatory reporting requirements.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple streams of work, whilst adapting to changing conditions and priorities.
• Experience working within a regulatory or commercial gambling environment is desirable.
• Experience of working with AI tools.

Additional Information

• Reviewing international gambling regulatory requirement specifications to gain a deep and wide understanding of the regulations which apply.
• Working with key stakeholders to provide clarity and agreement on the interpretation of regulatory requirements.
• Collaborating with the Finance, Tax and Compliance departments to resolve queries around the regulatory requirements to support development timelines.
• Writing regulatory specification documents to a high standard, ensuring that technical solutions can be devised.
• Managing decision logs to enable a clear audit trail of key decisions.
• Integrating into the development function to provide a link between the key stakeholders and the technical information required by the team.
• Identifying and implementing improvements to work practices, processes and deliverables to support the delivery of high quality software.
• Mentoring, coaching and providing guidance to junior members of the team.
• Understanding the existing regulatory reporting systems; both the regulatory requirements and the interpretations which have been implemented.
• Producing and maintaining post-release documentation and change capture.
• Utilising AI tools to enhance analysis and reporting processes, ensuring efficiency and accuracy in regulatory compliance tasks and exploring innovative AI solutions that can streamline workflows and improve project delivery.

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