Senior Business Analystnew

 

We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst (SBA) to join our team working within the Core Bank Enablement Value Stream within the Core Bank CIO.

 

As the Senior Business Analyst in this role, you will work closely with other Business Analysts and change colleagues, delivering against a significant change portfolio.

With a proactive, highly motivated mindset, we’ll expect you to be hands on, collaborating with and influencing senior stakeholders, designing and delivering solutions that underpin our Core Bank (SAP).

In addition to supporting the delivery of changes, our teams also support and contribute to the wide BA community within the Core Bank as well as supporting the BA & PO practice.

 

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

 

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

 

For this job, you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part-time, you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon, London, Bournemouth or Northampton office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.
 
If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.

 

What you’ll be doing

 

As a Business Analyst in this role, you’ll be working closely with other BA’s, building, managing, and leading in relationships, effectively engaging with the Change team. You’ll be accountable for the scoping, planning and defining approaches for initiatives, translating business content into relevant deliverables, providing analysis along the way to prompt successful completion of objectives.

 

You’ll be using your own initiative in this role and required to work with a pro-active mindset and an aim to identify, escalate and resolve issues/ risks. As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll strive for continuous development in your work, identifying areas for improvement throughout the lifecycle of a change.

 

With relevant experience under your belt, you’ll be using your business analysis or solution knowledge to identify solutions to achieve the best outcome, influencing business resolutions with confidence and innovation to achieve the best results.

About you

 

• Significant experience of working within a business analysis role

• Excellent insight in defining business requirements and non-functional requirements with the ability to analyse and problem-solve to determine solutions

• You’ll have demonstrable experience operating within governance, risk and compliance frameworks in a fast-paced delivery environment

• An understanding of and the ability to accommodate the needs of multi-disciplined teams, consisting of internal and external resources i.e. third-party suppliers

• An understanding of business processes e.g BPMN and how technology supports business change

• A good understanding and experience in documenting operational impacts in relation to implementing change within an organisation

• Experience of leading the task management to on / offshore teams

• Demonstrable evidence of coaching and developing people

• Experience of delivering change through a variety of approaches including agile and waterfall

 

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

 

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind

• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand

• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development

• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

 

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

 

The extras you’ll get

 

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

 

• 25 days holiday, pro rata

• Access to private medical insurance

• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

• Access to an annual performance-related bonus

• Training and development to help you progress your career

• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

  

 

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

 

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

 

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

 

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

 

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

 

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

 

 

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us. 

 

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

The hiring manager for this role is Jason Wood, and the main recruitment contact is Nathan Richens.