Business Analyst, Platform Product in Glasgow

Fitch Solutions is currently seeking a Business Analyst, Platform Products based out of our Glasgow office. Fitch Solutions is a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. It informs investment strategies, strengthens risk management capabilities and helps identify strategic opportunities. Its analysts, lawyers, journalists and economists offer in-depth views on credit markets/risk and individual credits, ESG, developed and emerging markets, and industry sectors. Fitch Solutions is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in over 30 countries.

By becoming a part of the Fitch Solutions team, you will join a group of colleagues delivering critical data, insightful research, and comprehensive analytics that empower clients to make informed decisions. You'll work in a dynamic environment where innovation is encouraged, and collaboration is key to developing solutions that address the evolving needs of global markets. With a portfolio of best-in-class, award winning brands, we offer you the opportunity to advance your career while contributing to a company known for its expertise and commitment to excellence.

About the Team

Platform Products is responsible for building shared capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization. We operate a product-led model focused on identifying common business needs, building reusable solutions once, and enabling business units to adopt them at scale. Our mission is to accelerate innovation, improve consistency, and reduce duplication by delivering platform capabilities across areas of Fitch Solutions. While Business Units focus on their domain expertise and commercial differentiation, Platform Products focuses on the foundational capabilities that support them all. As a Business Analyst, you will play a key role in understanding how our businesses operate, uncovering common processes and data needs, and translating those insights into strategic platform solutions that deliver value across multiple business units.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Partner with stakeholders across business units to understand end-to-end workflows, operational processes, data flows, and business challenges, identifying opportunities to create standardized platform capabilities that can be leveraged enterprise-wide.
• Analyze complex financial market processes and data lifecycles—including areas such as bonds, loans, private credit, broadly syndicated loans, ratings, and reference data—to identify common patterns, dependencies, and opportunities for automation.
• Evaluate existing business processes, manual operations, and technology solutions to determine where duplicative capabilities can be consolidated into shared platform services that improve efficiency, scalability, and data quality.
• Develop clear business requirements, process models, data flow diagrams, and domain-driven recommendations aligned with market practices and industry standards, ensuring solutions address both current and future business needs.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners and engineering teams to ensure business requirements are effectively translated into prioritized product roadmaps, epics, and features that deliver measurable value across multiple business functions.

You May be a Good Fit if:

• You have 2+ years of experience working with financial services, capital markets, lending, credit, ratings, investment research, or other data-intensive business domains.
• You have 2+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Process Analyst, Management Consultant, Product Analyst, or similar role focused on business transformation, process optimization, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• You possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience documenting complex business processes, operating models, data flows, and functional requirements.
• You are comfortable working with data and technology teams and have experience using tools such as GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, or similar platforms to support analysis and requirements definition.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Good understanding of financial market workflows, including the creation, distribution, servicing, or analysis of financial instruments such as loans, bonds, private credit, or structured finance products.
• Experience designing or supporting enterprise platforms, shared services, master data management, reference data, or data governance initiatives.
• Ability to challenge existing processes and champion industry best practices, helping drive strategic decisions on how capabilities should be designed and implemented across the organization.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence decision-making and build consensus across business, product, operations, and technology teams.

Why Choose Fitch:

• Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location.
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity.
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals.
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing.
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively.
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe.
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community.

At Fitch, AI is embedded in how we work every day—supporting smarter decision-making, streamlining workflows, and enabling new ways to create value for our business and clients. Intelligent solutions are increasingly part of our day-to-day operations, helping teams work more efficiently and think differently as we continue to evolve. We’re looking for colleagues who are comfortable operating in an AI-enabled environment—or who are curious, adaptable, and eager to build their AI literacy over time. We value professionals who embrace technology as part of continuous learning and who are committed to using it thoughtfully to enhance how work gets done.

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.