Do you have experience of providing Business Analysis expertise, on a Financial Services transformation project?
This consulting opportunity is to support our client, a leading wealth management company, in delivering key services as part of their technically complex advice transformation programme.
The project needs a consultant who has:
- A Business Analyst background in Financial Services with exposure to technical projects with complex integrations
- Proven ability to translate business, security and performance requirements into actionable user stories with Gherkin-based acceptance criteria
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills across business and technical teams.
You will be required to attend workshops in Southampton at least once a week.
Key services:
The key services that you will be asked to provide are:
- Partner with business stakeholders to elicit, analyse, and document business, security, and compliance requirements aligned to project objectives.
- Translate requirements into high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria within Jira, ensuring adherence to agreed standards and consistency across the backlog.
- Collaborate closely with Business Systems Analysts, Solution Architects, Developers, and Test Analysts to maintain alignment between business goals, functional design, and technical delivery.
- Ensure full traceability of requirements from initial user journeys through to feature development and release.
- Apply Behaviour Driven Design (BDD) techniques, creating Gherkin-based acceptance criteria to support effective testing and validation.
- Support backlog management, sprint planning, and progress tracking through Jira, ensuring requirements are prioritised and delivered to agreed timelines.
- Act as the bridge between business and technology teams, communicating clearly across both domains to ensure shared understanding and successful delivery.
- Leverage experience in complex technical integrations to identify dependencies, risks, and impacts on connected systems.
- Contribute to the definition and continuous improvement of business analysis standards, documentation, and tools.
Mandatory Requirements:
Successful consultants will be able to demonstrate:
- Business Analysis experience in detailed technical projects with complex integrations.
- Financial services experience or equivalent experience within a regulated sector.
- Ability to convert business, security, and performance requirements into actionable stories.
- Practical knowledge of creating Behaviour Driven Design (Gherkin) acceptance criteria.
- Exposure to working alongside a software engineering team creating web or mobile applications.
- Hands-on experience with Jira for story creation, backlog management, and progress tracking.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across business and technical domains.
Working Pattern: Remote with travel to Southampton at least once a week for workshops
Contract Type: Inside IR35
Start: ASAP
Duration: Initial 6 months