This is a 1 year contract role.
Our client, a leading organisation in financial services, is seeking a high-calibre Business Analyst to lead end-to-end delivery of a major change initiative within Markets and Securities Services Operations. This is a contract opportunity for an experienced delivery professional comfortable operating in a regulated, fast-paced environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end project delivery from initiation through to implementation and closure
- Define and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, and critical path
- Manage scope, RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), and change control, escalating through governance as needed
- Drive stakeholder engagement across business, technology, operations, and third parties
- Establish and run project governance including steering updates, status reporting, and decision logs
- Coordinate delivery across workstreams - requirements, design, build, testing, and rollout
- Track and manage budget, resourcing, and capacity, flagging constraints early
- Ensure delivery meets control expectations (risk, compliance, audit, data/privacy, operational readiness), with evidence captured
What You'll Need
- Proven experience delivering complex projects in a regulated environment, ideally financial services
- Strong project management capability - planning, RAID, governance, reporting, stakeholder management
- Experience across front-to-back Markets & Securities Services processes (Product, Operations, Technology, Product Control, Risk/Controls)
- Track record delivering business, regulatory, and/or technology change, with understanding of operating model impacts
- Confident communicator, able to influence across levels and drive decisions at pace
- Strong risk and control awareness, comfortable operating within formal governance standards
- Relevant certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile) preferred
