Business Analyst in Leeds

Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better. As a Business Analyst, you thrive on working in a challenging, fast‑paced environment where no two days are the same. You enjoy communicating with stakeholders and evaluating requirements, identifying gaps, and analysing the impact of new changes. This role is responsible for transforming our systems, processes, behaviours and technology. It involves understanding business problems, existing practices and approaches, and developing innovative solutions. The role involves taking ownership of work, working with Lead BA, BAs and stakeholders across a range of different projects and initiatives to understand the structures, business operations, processes, products, service offerings and systems to design solutions that will enable Schroders Personal Wealth to release value to Client, Colleagues and Company, aligned to SPW Strategic Priorities.

Salary National – £38,154 – £41,969

Role Fixed Term Contract to 31/12/2026

Location Leeds

Development and Key Responsibilities

• Understand the Business Challenge: Ensures all work is value focused and meets the needs of the client or colleague. Ensure you understand and can articulate the benefit/value of the work. Work alongside colleagues such as lead business analysts, business analysts, programme & project managers, developers, testers and architects. Undertake detailed analysis and investigations that deliver successful project outcomes and value to SPW. Engage effectively and communicate with stakeholders across the business to understand and document underlying business needs, translating these into actions and activity. Develop and maintain good knowledge of business and technology areas, providing analysis insight for ad‑hoc queries, consulting requests, independent reviews and management of quality assurance activity. Construct workflow chart, journey maps, diagrams and use other methods to help understand business problems and articulate solutions. Develop your capability to enable you to create robust business cases to articulate required information for successful completion of the work including value of outcomes, resource and capability requirements.
• Translate Analysis into Practice: Documents clear, concise requirements and identify and raise any conflicting items that drive delivery and technology teams to success. Ensure all design is compatible with experience blueprints, design principles, business rules and elevate any decisions to the appropriate enterprise design/design authority forum as required. Translate project requirements into process, behavioural or technical solutions (in collaboration with Lead BA / BAs / Arch/Dev/Testers).
• Innovation: Stay abreast of internal developments including changes to our advice process, operational teams, technology, new product launches and releases as well as an understanding of the external market and proactively look for ways to improve the business. Uncover optimal solutions to resolve problems and deliver value through resourcefulness and collaboration with colleagues at all levels of the business.

Qualifications & Skills

• Financial Services experience, with knowledge of Wealth Management industry desirable
• Data Analysis: Proficiency in analysing data to derive insights and inform decisions.
• Requirements Management: Ability to gather, document, and manage project requirements.
• Systems Analysis: Understanding of system processes and workflows.
• Business Intelligence (BI) Tools: Familiarity with tools for data visualization and reporting.
• Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Effective communication and collaboration.
• Critical Thinking and Problem‑Solving: Analysing issues and developing the capability to analyse complex issues and proposing solutions.

We understand not everyone will meet 100% of the requirements, however we encourage you to apply if you think your skills are a good fit for this role. This job vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.

Some fantastic benefits SPW colleagues enjoy:

• Generous Holiday Entitlement: 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell 5 days.
• Health & Wellbeing: Company‑paid Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, and Health Screening.
• Company Pension Contribution: A matched pension contribution of up to 15% of your base pay.
• Cash Allowance: Flexible allowance to spend on additional benefits personal to you, including: dental cover, paid sabbatical leave, gym membership, menopause support.
• Bonus Opportunity: Dependent on individual/company performance (eligible after 3 months' service).
• Financial Advice: Access to free financial advice to help secure your financial future.

To find out more, please visit https://www.spw.com/careers-at-spw/rewards-and-benefits

We support flexible working: At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job‑sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way.

Ready to restart your career? We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.

You belong here: At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.

Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo‑regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform this role.