Business Analyst (Asset Management)

Project overview

Business Analyst - Financial Services

Project details

Glasgow - 2 days per week onsite

£450 per day - Inside IR35

Contract: Initial 12 months

Hours: 40 hours per week

End Client: Leading Financial Services organisation

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to support a major programme within a leading financial services organisation.

This is a slightly unusual hybrid BA role, combining traditional business analysis with data, asset and operational change. The successful candidate will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to understand requirements, analyse data and processes, and support the delivery of change across a complex banking environment.

Recent financial services experience is essential, and candidates must be within a reasonable commuting distance of Glasgow.

Key Responsibilities

Gather, analyse and document business and technical requirements.

Work closely with business, technology and operational stakeholders.

Analyse existing processes, data and systems and identify areas for improvement.

Support data mapping, reconciliation, migration and data-quality activities.

Investigate complex datasets using SQL and other analytical tools.

Help define As-Is and To-Be processes.

Translate business requirements into clear requirements/user stories for technical teams.

Support Agile delivery teams throughout the project life cycle.

Work with asset-related data and processes across the banking environment.

Essential Experience

Strong Business Analyst experience within financial services/banking.

Recent financial services experience is essential.

Strong data analysis skills.

Experience of SQL.

Experience with data mapping, migration and/or reconciliation.

Strong requirements gathering and stakeholder management.

Experience working across business and technology teams.

Agile delivery experience, ideally including JIRA.

Able to commute to Glasgow 2 days per week.

Desirable Experience

Asset management or investment management experience.

Financial instruments, securities or investment data.

Reference data/market data.

Data lineage and data governance.

Fund accounting or investment operations experience.

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 12 months
• Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK, GB
• Rate: 50-56 EUR/h