Senior Business Analyst
Grade: P2
Location: Manchester / Hybrid
6 month secondment
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At The Co-operative Bank we’re proud to be different. We’re proud of our values and ethics, and our unique, customer-led Ethical Policy that shapes everything we do.
Born out of the co-operative movement over 150 years ago, you could say that doing the right thing has always been our thing. We don’t just help people with their money, but help people fight for justice and the causes they care about.
We put people at the heart of every decision we make and there’s never been a more important time for our Bank to stand up for the causes that matter most to our customers, colleagues and partner organisations.
Join us and help us continue to make progress in environmental and societal change, all with the UK’s original ethical bank.
The role:
As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll work closely with all the other release train level roles to create and maintain feature level requirements, which will filter down to the scrum teams for delivery. You need to be able to clearly explain what is needed at a feature level, ensuring alignment to the corporate strategy and the committed outcomes set by the release train, through increment planning activity.
The role requires significant interaction with business stakeholders and third parties to help ensure customer and value based outcomes are captured in the release train backlog of work.
Key Accountabilities:
Aligning to the product strategy and roadmap, with the ability to translate the stakeholder’s vision of the product into the business needs and communicate it to the team members to make them understand the expectations.*
Working with all teams within the train, helping embed BAs and SBAs by ensuring their work is aligned to the train level objectives and the analysis work contributing to the team back logs is of sufficient quality to enable teams to develop effectively and commit to goals.*
* **To support the Practice in the continuous improvement of Business Analysis within the practice model at the Society, helping ensure that the Practice is leading the way in collaborative, effective, straightforward, and high quality Business Analysis.
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Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:
* Demonstration of a broad Analysis skillset
* Evidence of effective RAIDDA management
* Experience of training and coaching Business/Systems Analysts
* Experience of solution development, requirements management and process analysis
* Awareness and exposure of industry best practice
* Substantial knowledge of SAFE, Agile and Waterfall lifecycle methodologies
* Knowledge of project governance and risk management frameworks
* Ensuring allocation of resource has no unauthorised spend
* Excellent stakeholder management skills, up to Director level and engagement with 3rd Parties
* Ability to manage differing requirements across the business and manage any conflict
* Excellent planning and organisational skills including the ability to prioritise workloads to best meet demand.
* Good understanding of commercial, financial, regulatory and legislative requirements
* Customer focussed with the ability to promote this across the wider team
* Evidence of leading Continuous Improvement which enhance the Business/System analysts artefacts and capabilities to drive best in class standard
* Extensive experience as a business analyst/system analysis within financial service
* Facilitate (support) internal training to bridge skill gaps &/or enhance capability and consistent application of processes / procedures
* Excellent written communication, as will need to be able to take in a lot of information from various sources and distil this into written features that are clear and understandable across different readership groups
What You Can Expect From Us:
* Flexible and home working options
* 27 days holiday rising to 30 with service, plus opportunity to buy 5 extra days
- Competitive pension with up to 10% employer contribution
- Income protection / life assurance
* Commitment from employers on continued learning & development
* Wellbeing support ‘Help@Hand’ offers mental health support, physiotherapy, GP’s for both you and your family.
- 2 paid days for volunteering per year
- ‘MyReward’ corporate discount for over 800 retailers and Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Family friendly policies and supportive working environment
- Colleague network groups committed to inclusion and diversity within our Bank.
We can only consider candidates with the right to work in the UK at this time.
Our Bank is passionate and committed to continuing to create a diverse workforce and an inclusive environment where all colleagues can fulfil their potential.
At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of the Coventry Building Society Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.
If you require more information or this document in a different format, please contact careers@co-operativebank.co.uk
As a reputable employer regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, all offers of employment for this role are subject to a series of background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks.
*Rated by Morningstar Sustainalytics in the Regional Banks sub-industry with a score of 11.2 as of 14 January 2025.