Business Analyst

London Office | Hybrid Working (2 days office / 3 days home)

Salary up to £55k DOE + excellent benefits

Introduction

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join our Business Transformation team. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining business processes, gathering and documenting business and functional requirements, writing user stories, supporting solution design, testing, and assisting in training and rollout activities. This role requires close collaboration with stakeholders, technical teams, and end users to deliver solutions that drive efficiency, accuracy, and strategic value.

Why Saltus?

Our mission is to improve everyone’s relationship with their wealth: to make it a positive force for their future and at the same time to prevent it being a source of anxiety. We want everyone who works at Saltus to be proud to work here, and to find fulfilment and meaning in the work that they do. We have a number of offices in the South of England including London, Whiteley and Farnham.

We are incredibly proud of our culture and work really hard to ensure that Saltus is a great place to work for our people, where they can have fun and grow in their career, with a passion for excellence and customer service.

We’re proud that we’ve been recognized as a winner by the Sunday Times in the Best Places to Work 2024 awards, as well as a winner in the Professional Adviser awards 2024 for the Best Financial Advisers to Work For. These accolades reflect our commitment to creating an exceptional work environment and our dedication to excellence in the financial industry. Join our award-winning team and be a part of our continued success!

Saltus is a privately owned financial planning and discretionary investment management house. We are dedicated to providing a high-quality service for private clients, trusts, and smaller institutions.

Saltus Partners was founded in 2004 and has grown organically and through a small number of carefully integrated acquisitions. Originally the business started out as an investment manager and has now developed the financial planning side of the offering, putting this at the forefront of the client relationship.

Today Saltus manages and advises on over £9 billion of client assets, acquired through a combination of organic business growth and corporate acquisitions.

Role and responsibilities

• Mapping and documenting end-to-end business processes, identifying opportunities for efficiency improvement.
• Eliciting, validating, and documenting business and functional requirements, including “as is” and “to be” process models.
• Appling business knowledge to the project environment, working closely with cross-functional teams.
• Writing clear and concise user stories and acceptance criteria to support solution development.
• Collaborating with development teams to translate requirements into functional specifications and solution designs.
• Providing conceptual solutions to often complicated business problems and making recommendations for preferred approaches.
• Facilitating communication between stakeholders and technical teams to ensure mutual understanding and alignment.
• Supporting testing activities by validating requirements fulfilment and ensuring quality outcomes.
• Assisting with training materials, knowledge transfer, and supporting the rollout of new systems and processes.

Essential attributes the successful candidate should possess

• Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Business Analyst.
• Experience in financial planning, finance, or related domain strongly preferred.
• Certification in Product Management, Business Analysis, or Scrum/Agile.
• Strong understanding of business process mapping, requirement elicitation, and solution design.
• Proficiency in creating user stories, functional specifications, and process documentation.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodology and frameworks.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to work with large data sets.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across multiple teams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with testing, training, and rollout activities.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and proactive with strong problem-solving skills with a solutions-focused mindset.
• Collaborative team player with the ability to influence and build consensus.
• Comfortable working with both business and technical audiences.

Where will I be working?

We are looking for someone to work from our London office, and we offer hybrid working, which includes 2 days in the office, with the remainder at home. We’re incredibly flexible about when and how you work: we don’t want anyone to be prevented from coming to work for Saltus as a result of the working pattern that they’re looking for. We are passionate about championing flexible working for our people, so if there’s a slightly different working pattern that you’re looking for, then please come and have a chat to us about it!

What benefits do I get when working for Saltus?

The salary is up to £55k depending on experience, alongside 28 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), life assurance, income protection and a pension, alongside access to our flexible benefits platform. The role is 40 hours per week between the hours of 8.30-5.30pm. Just as importantly, you’ll get to experience our culture, which we really do live and breathe ensuring that Saltus is a fantastic place to work for every single one of our 400+ people. We work hard, but we have an awful lot of fun along the way. If you think you’d like to come and join us, then please do get in touch… we’d love to hear from you!