Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst – Payments £70,000–£80,000 + bonus + excellent benefits / Pension London – 2 days per week I'm currently working with a company at the forefront of the payments industry as they look to bring in a Payments Senior Business Analyst to support a range of significant change and transformation initiatives. This is a genuinely senior BA opportunity for someone who understands the payments landscape and can operate comfortably across business, technology and senior stakeholder groups. You'll be working on medium to large-scale change programmes, helping shape problems into practical solutions, define requirements and outcomes, assess options, and support delivery from early-stage business cases through to testing and implementation. We're looking for someone with:

• Strong Business Analysis experience within payments
• A solid understanding of the UK payments landscape, with exposure to areas such as BACS, Faster Payments, CHAPS, CASS, Confirmation of Payee or NPA
• Experience working across both smaller projects and large, complex programmes
• Strong requirements gathering, definition and specification skills
• The ability to bridge business and technical requirements, working effectively with architects, developers and other technical specialists
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders, regulators and industry participants
• A good understanding of payments-related regulation and compliance
• Someone who can challenge constructively, identify problems and help shape the right solution rather than simply document requirements
• You'll be joining a Change function working on initiatives that will help shape the future infrastructure and evolution of digital payments, so this isn't just a BA role maintaining the status quo.