Operations Business Analyst

Operations Business Analyst

Location: London (4 days onsite)
Rate: £560 per day (Inside IR35)

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in delivering business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve complex challenges, and deliver tangible results through tailored consulting and delivery excellence.

Our culture is built on openness, integrity, and strong partnerships, underpinned by our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an Operations BA to provide subject matter expertise and knowledge on Operations processes and systems and work across complex projects for Operations stakeholders, ensuring a seamless understanding and management of project requirements.

The focus of the project integrate a Corporate Action management tool into Operations. The BA will need to be able to map data between systems and solve data modelling problems, ideal candidate should be very comfortable with learning system functions quickly to help design workflows.

Main Responsibilities

• Performing requirements gathering and compiling formal Business Requirements, Functional Specification, and Technical Design overview documents.

• Gaining approvals for documentation related to projects.

• Engaging in the Project Development Lifecycle.

• Proposing solutions to business users.

• Formulating testing approaches and compiling test plans and test cases.

• Conducting system integration testing and supporting business users with user acceptance testing.

• Compiling and presenting test results.

• Completing project/workstream status reports.

• Ensuring all project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored.

• Escalating issues/risks to project/line management.

• Providing subject matter expertise to support TEC initiatives.

• Promoting a dynamic, delivery-driven culture.

• Complying with relevant security and operations procedures.

• Building relationships across the bank to strengthen collaboration.

Key Requirements

• Business analysis experience in a top-tier bank or consultancy.

• Understanding of the project life cycle with experience in compiling proposal, scope, requirements, and testing documents.

• Exposure to project delivery lifecycles including Waterfall and Agile.

• Experience with applications like Gloss, Swift Gateway, Murex, Bloomberg, Apex & Middleware.

• Product knowledge in Bonds, Derivatives, Securities Financing, FX, and Loans/Deposits.

• Understanding of Corporate Actions and core banking functions.

• Experience with data modeling and data mapping.

• SQL skills to query and examine data.

• Ability to learn new systems quickly for workflow designs.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation