Senior Business Analyst - Corporate Change

We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Business Analyst who enjoys the challenges that come with working on corporate functions and regulatory enterprise-wide projects and programmes. You will be responsible for supporting internal business customers at Schroders to help manage large scale change by performing analysis and owning, authoring and coordinating multiple key project deliverables.

Senior Business Analysts are innovative and passionate analysts who demonstrate a superior level of skills, experience and professionalism relative to their peers as well as having the passion to provide leadership, guidance, line management to other Business Analysts in the team where appropriate and support to the wider Schroders community.

Schroders Business Transformation is growing in its remit to support the development of key corporate and business strategies and to drive and lead the analysis, design and delivery of large scale, cross group change. Corporate & Regulatory Change is one of the key practices within Business Transformation and the Senior Business Analyst will be a core member within the Corporate COO’s team.

The role holder will be responsible for leading analysis tasks which contribute to the delivery of business outcomes as required by the Business Sponsor/Product Owner. Key responsibilities include:

• Leading the business analysis approach to ensure the effective delivery of Enterprise Change initiatives.
• Confirming nature and scope of change, impact assessment of changes, GAP & Options analysis, and analysis and documentation of requirements.
• Identifying and analysing solutions, designing and implementing process and organisational changes.
• Interpreting business requirements into process change, organisational change and system change requirements.
• Contributing to high level analysis of proposed epics/programmes to identify scope, size and value.
• Providing business analysis support to Project / Programme Manager and Business Sponsors in preparing the business case.
• Developing effective and trusted relationships with vendors and other parties external to Schroders that are part of the programme delivery.

Key Work Level Accountabilities include:

• Providing leadership and guidance to other team members to improve their business analysis skills.
• Actively collaborating and contributing within the Analysis community to define best practices for analysis teams globally.
• Ensuring project team working practices adhere to and are compliant with our change policy and minimum standards.
• Able to mentor and guide professional development of analysts in the team and wider community where appropriate.

The Knowledge, Experience And Qualifications You Need:

• Understanding of a range of delivery methodologies.
• Good knowledge of change tools and techniques.
• Demonstrable experience of business analysis across several business domains including business transformational change, process change and technology change.
• Strong communication skills, experienced in managing relationships with senior business stakeholders.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to present key points to senior management.

We recognise potential, whoever you are. Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer.