Lead Business Analyst, Payment Services, Edinburgh or Birmingham

End Date Tuesday 09 May 2023 Salary Range £52,245 - £58,050
Agile Working Options Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working Job Description Summary Are you an experienced Lead Business Analyst who would love to work in a dynamic Business that is dedicated to shaping and delivering the best Payments Solutions and Services to our Business and Colleagues? We’ll provide you with continuous training and development opportunities and regular career development conversations to help you fulfil your career potential, whatever your aspirations might be.
Interested? Then read on to find out more... Job Description Lead Business Analyst, Payment Services. Hybrid Working, 2 days a week in Edinburgh OR Birmingham Office. Salary £52,245 - £69,486 (depending on experience and time of joining). Job Summary: Are you an experienced Lead Business Analyst who would love to work in a dynamic Business that is dedicated to shaping and delivering the best Payments Solutions and Services to our Business and Colleagues? We’ll provide you with continuous training and development opportunities and regular career development conversations to help you fulfil your career potential, whatever your aspirations might be. Interested? Then read on to find out more... Who are we? In the Payments Services Platform, our mission is to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely. We have initiated Next Gen, a key strategic activity with the objective of delivering business outcomes that will ensure we maintain Payment schemes (Target 2, RTGS, Swift ISO, SEPA) participation through complying with their mandated requirements and the ISO20022 messaging standards. Alongside ensuring scheme compliance, we'll modernise our High Value & International (IHV) estate, and we'll move all IHV Payment Flows from our channels to utilise and benefit from the state of the art payment engines. What would I focus on as a Lead Business Analyst? Leading the team, you’ll use your skills and experience to deliver the highest quality business analysis outputs and artefacts whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring, and supporting the team. Examples of which include:

• Producing detailed scope and requirements to allow platform teams to accurately develop technical solutions required to meet the objectives of the outcome.
• Working with Business Design colleagues to identify and deliver any supporting business processes required to complement the technical changes.
• Collaborating with the Product Owner to proactively handle the scope and delivery of the outcome objectives using tools such as Jira and Confluence.

What we need from you? We like people who come from a diverse set of backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. You'll be able to:

• Extensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on analysing the business requirements that IT and business solutions must meet.

Ability to make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems, such as major connections, linkages, and interdependencies in systematic data. Ensuring the organisation has reliable ways to collect the needed information.

• Provide guidance and training to others to analyse customer data and gather insight to ensure we provide customers with the right solutions that fit their needs
• Remain calm and provide direction, looking for opportunities in ambiguous situations, handling the stress of change, and taking steps to help others handle organisational transitions.
• Develop and deliver communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences and their teams.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference: Lead the analysis of an outcome and help to shape the Scope and Requirements from inception through design, build and test and into delivery.

• Lead the analysis of an outcome and help to shape the Scope and Requirements from inception through design, build and test and into delivery.
• Produce detailed scope and requirements to allow platform teams to accurately develop technical solutions required to meet the objectives of the outcome.
• Work with Business Design colleagues to identify and deliver any supporting business processes required to complement the technical changes.
• Work with the Product Owner to proactively manage the scope and delivery of the outcome objectives using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Manage and lead a team of Business Analysts providing support, guidance, and domain expertise to aid the development of the team

We would really encourage those with experience/ knowledge of following to apply:

• International & High Value Payment Schemes (CBPR+, CHAPS, T2 and SEPA)

What will you get in return? On top of our excellent salary & benefits packages, this will be a stimulating and exciting position with plenty of opportunities for career growth and development. Supported throughout you should be encouraged to take the initiative, establish relationships, and make a positive difference to our customers, our colleagues, and our communities. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunities and provides opportunities for flexible working. Together we make it possible! We'd also like to reassure applicants that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Benefits also include:

• Annual personal bonus percentage;
• Employer pension contribution (up to 15%);
• private medical insurance, and;
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays;

We offer flexible working hours around the 9-5 and are a very family friendly company It if sounds of interest, then reach out and apply... At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.