Senior Business Analyst

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support a range of strategic project workstreams within a financial services environment. The successful candidate will play a critical role in eliciting, analysing, and documenting business requirements, ensuring alignment between business needs and technology solutions.

This role reports directly to the Head of Business Analysis and requires close collaboration with internal stakeholders, including Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), software developers, and testing teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business SMEs to elicit, analyse, and document business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications for delivery teams.
• Work closely with software developers and testers to ensure requirements are properly understood and implemented.
• Facilitate and lead requirements gathering workshops with stakeholders.
• Conduct data analysis and modelling to support business and system changes.
• Document and define system interface requirements.
• Support delivery across multiple project workstreams including:
  • Front Office Reporting Analysis
  • Back Office Reporting Analysis
  • Systems Interface Analysis
• Ensure all deliverables meet agreed standards and align with organisational objectives.
• Perform any additional related activities that are reasonably incidental to the core responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computing, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline (or equivalent third-level qualification).

Required Experience

• Minimum 10 years’ experience as a Business Analyst within the financial services industry.
• Strong understanding of capital markets and market standards, ideally within:
  • Treasury environments
  • Banking / Investment Banking
  • Fund Management

Core Business Analysis Expertise

• Strong knowledge of financial products, particularly:
  • Treasury loans
  • Deposits
  • Trade lifecycle processes
• Experience across front-to-back office operations, including:
  • Deal entry
  • Trade confirmations
  • Settlements (including SWIFT messaging)
  • Accounting and financial reporting
• Familiarity with finance systems such as:
  • Treasury Management Systems
  • Accounting systems / General Ledger
  • Financial Reporting and Management Information (MI)
• Proven experience in:
  • Leading and facilitating requirements workshops
  • Eliciting requirements from business stakeholders
  • Translating business needs into functional specifications
• Proficiency in:
  • Data analysis and data modelling techniques
  • System interface analysis and documentation

Desirable Experience

• Experience working with Confluence and Jira.
• Expertise in:
  • Designing business process flow diagrams
  • Wireframing and storyboarding

The ideal candidate will be:

• A strong communicator with excellent stakeholder engagement skills
• Highly analytical with the ability to translate complex business needs into actionable solutions
• Comfortable working across multiple workstreams in a dynamic environment
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and capable of working independently.

Additional Information

Why Version 1? 

 At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability. 

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits 
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme 
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance 
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme 
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies 
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat 
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform. 
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes. 

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.    

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer. 

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity. 

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially. 

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Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services. 

 We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do: 

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner 
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business 
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK 
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW 
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW 

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!.