Principal Business Analyst

At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

What You'll Be Doing

The Principal Business Analyst is a senior-level expert responsible for leading complex business analysis initiatives, shaping strategic direction, and driving transformative change for a designated business unit within the organisation.

This role acts as a trusted advisor to both the Head of Delivery and senior stakeholders, translating business needs into actionable solutions, and ensuring alignment between business objectives and technology capabilities.

The Principal Business Analyst is accountable for the definition and oversight of the organisation’s analysis framework & practices and ensuring initiatives are aligned to the organisational strategy and delivered in line with business objectives.

The role provides leadership, line and discipline management of the business analysis function required to deliver the Change portfolio.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience as a business analyst, with a proven track record in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong knowledge of business analysis frameworks (e.g., BABOK), methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid), and tools.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing abilities.
• Experience in mentoring, coaching, or leading teams of analysts.

What you can expect from us:

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Social clubs and events

You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website

Disability Statement

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. This role may support hybrid working. To make use of this arrangement, employees must have an appropriate home working environment, including a private workspace and reliable, secure high speed internet that enables them to perform their duties effectively. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.

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