Banking Transformation Business Analyst / Project Manager

• The Business Analyst / Project Manager will support a transformation program for a top-tier banking client, aligned to an ECB Remediation operating model.
• Support the remediation stand‑up and operating model (pods, intake, tooling) and establish delivery routines and governance.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, serving as the primary point of contact for escalations, decisions, and issue resolution.
• Drive key program initiatives in close partnership with the business, ensuring delivery discipline across remediation waves.
• Responsible for driving delivery from discovery through implementation, ensuring business outcomes, stakeholder alignment, and execution discipline.
• Lead workshops to capture remediation requirements, scope, edge cases, control expectations, and operating model impacts.
• Translate business needs into clear delivery artefacts (user stories, process maps, BRDs/FRDs, acceptance criteria, test cases) and manage prioritization with stakeholders.
• Drive delivery of quick‑win remediation waves, ensuring requirements, triage, prioritization, and closure tracking.
• Coordinate and maintain the controls gap assessment, supporting prioritization, ownership, and closure tracking across stakeholders.
• Identify data sourcing gaps and coordinate agreement of closure plans with business, data, and technology teams.
• Support delivery of manual controls automation waves, ensuring requirements, testing, sign‑offs, and operational readiness.
• Ensure catalogue lineage is populated and traceability coverage is measurable and reported for priority areas.
• Plan and track delivery milestones, RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), and progress reporting for internal and client governance forums.
• Work closely with Technology, Data, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Security stakeholders to ensure solutions meet policy and control expectations.
• Coordinate UAT planning and execution; support go‑live readiness and post‑release stabilization.
• Ensure delivery produces an audit‑ready documentation pack (decision logs, test evidence, control mappings, traceability, and sign‑offs).
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying gaps, removing blockers, and improving delivery ways‑of‑working.

Role Description

• The Business Analyst / Project Manager will support a transformation program for a top-tier banking client, aligned to an ECB Remediation operating model.
• Support the remediation stand‑up and operating model (pods, intake, tooling) and establish delivery routines and governance.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, serving as the primary point of contact for escalations, decisions, and issue resolution.
• Drive key program initiatives in close partnership with the business, ensuring delivery discipline across remediation waves.
• Responsible for driving delivery from discovery through implementation, ensuring business outcomes, stakeholder alignment, and execution discipline.
• Lead workshops to capture remediation requirements, scope, edge cases, control expectations, and operating model impacts.
• Translate business needs into clear delivery artefacts (user stories, process maps, BRDs/FRDs, acceptance criteria, test cases) and manage prioritization with stakeholders.
• Drive delivery of quick‑win remediation waves, ensuring requirements, triage, prioritization, and closure tracking.
• Coordinate and maintain the controls gap assessment, supporting prioritization, ownership, and closure tracking across stakeholders.
• Identify data sourcing gaps and coordinate agreement of closure plans with business, data, and technology teams.
• Support delivery of manual controls automation waves, ensuring requirements, testing, sign‑offs, and operational readiness.
• Ensure catalogue lineage is populated and traceability coverage is measurable and reported for priority areas.
• Plan and track delivery milestones, RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), and progress reporting for internal and client governance forums.
• Work closely with Technology, Data, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Security stakeholders to ensure solutions meet policy and control expectations.
• Coordinate UAT planning and execution; support go‑live readiness and post‑release stabilization.
• Ensure delivery produces an audit‑ready documentation pack (decision logs, test evidence, control mappings, traceability, and sign‑offs).
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying gaps, removing blockers, and improving delivery ways‑of‑working.

Location

• The role supports one of our top-tier banking clients in London (Canary Wharf) and requires a minimum of three days on‑site presence.

Core Skills & Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst and/or Project Manager within banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of banking operations and change delivery (front‑to‑back processes, controls, governance, and/or regulatory change).
• Proven experience running discovery workshops, managing stakeholders, and translating complex needs into actionable delivery artefacts.
• Strong delivery management capability: planning, tracking, reporting, and driving outcomes across multiple workstreams/pods.
• Experience working with cross‑functional teams (Operations, Technology, Data, Risk, Compliance, Finance).
• Comfortable working in fast‑paced, regulated environments with structured governance and audit expectations.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and strong documentation standards.

Delivery & Methodology

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.
• Strong knowledge of typical BA/PM artefacts: process flows, user stories, requirements traceability, decision logs, RAID logs, test packs, and go‑live checklists.
• Experience coordinating UAT end‑to‑end (test approach, test cases, execution support, defect triage, sign‑off).
• Experience working in a factory‑style model (intake, triage, prioritisation, wave planning, and reporting) is a strong plus.

Nice‑to‑Have (Data Experience)

• Exposure to data‑driven programs (data transformation, reporting, controls, data quality, lineage).
• Ability to work with data teams and understand basic concepts such as source‑to‑target mapping, reconciliation checks, lineage coverage, and reporting dependencies.
• Basic SQL literacy (able to query/validate data or understand query outputs) is a plus, not mandatory.
• Experience supporting operational or regulatory reporting processes is beneficial.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Support remediation stand‑up: pods model, intake process, tooling usage, and delivery routines.
• Conduct discovery workshops to define scope, stakeholders, business outcomes, remediation edge cases, and control expectations.
• Produce key artefacts: process maps, user stories, acceptance criteria, decision tables (where needed), and test cases.
• Drive delivery of quick‑win remediation waves and track closure evidence.
• Maintain and report the controls gap assessment (prioritisation, ownership, closure tracking, dependencies).
• Identify data sourcing gaps, coordinate SME sessions, and document and track the agreed closure plan.
• Support manual controls automation waves by defining requirements, coordinating testing, and ensuring sign‑off readiness.
• Ensure catalogue lineage is populated and traceability coverage is measurable and reported.
• Manage the delivery plan and backlog; drive prioritisation and ensure alignment with remediation goals.
• Track and manage RAID; elevate blockers and coordinate resolution across teams.
• Facilitate governance routines: daily stand‑ups, sprint ceremonies, stakeholder check‑ins, and steering updates.
• Lead UAT preparation and execution; coordinate defect triage and ensure sign‑off readiness.
• Support implementation planning, cutover readiness, and post‑go‑live stabilisation.
• Maintain traceability from requirements → delivery → testing → sign‑off → evidence.
• Produce an audit‑ready documentation pack including decision logs, test packs, control mappings, traceability evidence, and approvals.

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