We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our team working within the Core Banking Products & Capabilities Value Stream within the Core Banking CIO.
As the Senior Business Analyst in this role, you will work closely with other Business Analysts and change colleagues, delivering against a significant change portfolio.
With a proactive, highly motivated mindset, we’ll expect you to be hands on, collaborating with and influencing senior stakeholders, designing and delivering solutions that underpin our Core Bank (SAP), whilst ensuring alignment across business intent, functional design, testing, and operational readiness. You’ll work collaboratively across teams working closely with architects, engineering teams and product owners solving complex problems, and bringing structure and clarity to delivery.
In addition to supporting the delivery of changes, our teams also support and contribute to the wider BA community within Core Banking as well as supporting the BA & PO practice.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon, London, Northampton or Bournemouth office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role, if you’re an internal applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.
If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing
As a Senior Business Analyst in this role, you’ll be working closely with other BA’s, building, managing, and leading in relationships and effectively engaging with the Change team. You’ll be accountable for scoping, identifying business impacts, planning and defining approaches for initiatives, translating business content into relevant deliverables and providing analysis along the way to prompt successful completion of objectives.
You’ll be using your own initiative in this role and required to work with a pro-active mindset and an aim to identify, escalate and resolve issues/ risks. As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll strive for continuous development in your work, identifying areas for improvement throughout the lifecycle of a change.
With relevant experience under your belt, you’ll be using your business analysis or solution knowledge to identify solutions to achieve the best outcome, influencing business resolutions with confidence and innovation to achieve the best results.
About you
Significant experience of working within a business analysis role
Strong track record in planning, delivering, prioritising, sequencing and sizing Business Analysis activities.
Excellent insight in defining and producing explicit, testable business and non-functional requirements and maintaining traceability.
Strong ability to analyse and problem-solve to determine fit for purpose solutions that can be embedded successfully.
Significant knowledge in business analysis techniques, tools, and methods with a strong understanding of their purpose, fit and relevance when initiating developments.
You’ll have demonstrable experience operating within governance, risk and compliance frameworks in a fast-paced delivery environment.
An understanding of and the ability to accommodate the needs of multi-disciplined teams, consisting of internal and external resources i.e. third-party suppliers.
A strong understanding of business processes and how technology supports business change.
A good understanding and experience in documenting operational impacts in relation to implementing change within an organisation
The ability to confidently communicate with the ability to influence stakeholders, task manage an analysis team and communicate progress at various levels across the organisation.
Experience of leading a team across small- or large-scale initiatives.
Demonstrable evidence of coaching and developing people
Experience of delivering change through a variety of approaches including agile and waterfall.
Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:
Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes
You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.
Qualifications
The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
25 days holiday, pro rata
Private medical insurance
A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
Access to an annual performance-related bonus
Training and development to help you progress your career
A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society
We forge our own path at Nationwide.
As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.
If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.
At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.
We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.
What to do next
If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.
The hiring manager for this role is Katie Hancock, and the main recruitment contact is Nathan Richens.
Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Senior Business Analyst.
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