Lead Business Analyst

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Lead Business Analyst

SALARY: From £59,850

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Sighthill North

HOURS: Full- time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our CIB Rectification & Remediation (R&R) team. We are a very flexible team with our primary goal of putting things right when things have gone wrong for our clients. The R&R portfolio is varied, high-profile and always challenging.

What you’ll be doing

You will Closely and proactively support the Programme/Project Managers through the remediation and rectification change lifecycle as an integral part of the team. Own and lead the business analysis activity from investigation to delivery ensuring the highest standards of accuracy and completeness. Apply your technical and business insight to collaborate closely with Group Transformation, Data Services and Delivery colleagues on issue identification, solution design and implementation. Bring to life your banking experience to help frame, create and build new and improved ways of working

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive

About you

• You have excellent analytical skills, you are comfortable with data and have a structured understanding of processes and business procedures

• You're a dynamic and adaptable individual who can use and learn new skills and knowledge in varying circumstances and confident providing complex analytical, research advice, recommendations and using your own judgment

• Capable of working in pressured and challenging situations, you’re calm, structured and a reassurance to colleagues and partners

• As a natural facilitator and decision-maker, you'll enable collaboration across all fields and across all partner groups

• You'll be a capable negotiator, analytical thinker and problem solver who will influence positively

• A natural leader who'll mentor and support junior colleagues to 'deliver best in class' remediation and rectification activity

• Demonstrating similar values and behaviours to our Group's and encouraging this in team members

What you’ll need

• Solid understanding of business analysis and business architecture methodologies and techniques and their practical application

• Exposure to skills from multiple subject areas such as Operating Model, Process Design, Digital and Technology

• Proficient in Waterfall but with an understanding of Agile

• Exposure to systems thinking, business architecture and change delivery

• Excellent investigative skills, able to identify root causes and quantify business and client impact.

• Evidence of maintaining internal and external networks to source data and information to enable timely recommendations and advice

• Evidence of Engaging and influencing partners, anticipating, clarifying and shaping requirements for the purpose of optimising business results

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Previous experience of remediations

• Understanding of the Remediation and Rectification life cycle

• Experience of extracting data from core systems using applications such as SQL & Teradata

 About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. 

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team Apply today.

We’d love to hear from you.

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 keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

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.