Senior Business Analyst (contractor), London

ION Group · London

What are we trying to do?

Lab49 was founded in 2002 with a deep pool of business and technology talent and a global reach. We specialize in helping clients realize rapid transformational change at an industrial scale and operate historically towards the upper tiers of banking and capital markets, to include banks, hedge funds and exchanges; assisting those companies with their most key strategic business programmes and technology investments.

What do we need help with?

We are looking for an experienced consultant to work on a large institutional multi-year business transformation and integration project in cross border payments.

What will you do?

Business analysis

Develop business requirements and backlogs

Develop detailed business specifications, including worked numerical examples

Develop functional architectures and solutions designs

Develop delivery roadmaps, identify dependencies, risks and issues

Perform business process reengineering

Consulting

Work as part of a team in hybrid manner

Engage with client stakeholders to ascertain requirements, and validate Lab49 output

Facilitate workshops between Lab and client to resolve issues, risks and discover requirements

What do you need to know?

Skills & Knowledge

Working knowledge of financial markets, some experience of payments

Working knowledge of typical financial flows and architecture

Understanding of business process modelling

Ability to gather and document business requirements

Understanding of agile methodologies including the creation of epics / user stories and the effective management of backlogs

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication skills; able to represent the team, project and firm in all manner of client situations

Willingness and ability to get “hands-on” as needed; developing detailed specification and numerical examples

Experience

Experience with business analysis projects both as an individual and as part of a team

Experience with business analysis in the financial markets environment

Experience working with IT teams to deliver products / solutions

Experience with projects from inception through to delivery

Experience working in an agile environment

Who are you?

You want to help clients gain a deep understanding of their business processes and work with them to identify new and improved ways of working

You like to see things through from idea to final product

You keep up with the latest business trends in the market

You keep up with the latest techniques, e.g. Deep Learning, NLP, AI and how they can be used to solve problems, increase productivity

You pay attention to the details

You have the sufficient confidence and credibility to represent Lab49 to the client

You have the ability to understand the client need and articulate that to our internal teams

You have the drive and ability to be successful in new environments and domains.

You actively learn and develop your capabilities through self-study, and your network of peers and expert groups and organizations

Why should you come work for us?

It is a challenge. Your peers will push you, and you will grow in leaps and bounds that is impossible in traditional organizations.

As a consultant, you will see a multitude of technologies, organizations, and projects. You will learn a lot in a very short period of time.

We are a flat meritocracy with an engineering mindset. What matters is how good you are and how well you and your team deliver.

We are focused on the finance domain. There are plenty of areas where technology is a competitive advantage, and our clients turn to us when they need more innovative solutions.

If you ask our engineers, they will probably tell you that their extraordinary peer group is the primary reason that they work for us.

We are entrepreneurial and agile. There is a lot of opportunity to take accountability and grow quickly.

Automation positively transforms the lives of people and business. Our software helps you improve decision-making, increase efficiency, simplify complex processes and empower your people. We enable financial institutions, central banks and corporations to digitize and automate their most business-critical processes. We are reinventing the way business is done through innovations in automation technology.

We encourage creativity by automating repetitive tasks. We think long-term to get it right the first time

We are not limited by the status quo. We challenge boundaries, question assumptions and make transformative leaps.

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