We`re Hiring: Principal Business Analyst

Location: Hybrid,1xday per week min in Marlow

Department: Business Change

Monday-Friday / Permanent

We`re looking for an experienced Principal Business Analyst to lead complex business change across Kensington. This is a high-impact role for someone who can translate business challenges into clear, practical solutions that improve ways of working and support strategic priorities.

You`ll work closely with senior stakeholders, project teams and product teams, leading analysis from discovery through to implementation and ensuring outcomes are clearly defined, commercially sound and successfully embedded.

What You`ll Be Doing

• Lead analysis across complex business problems, shaping the approach, defining requirements and partnering with Project Managers, Product Managers and the BA Manager to deliver the right outcomes.
• Influence business strategy, future operating models, processes, systems and capabilities through strong business architecture and analysis.
• Develop and maintain business architecture aligned to Kensington`s strategic goals and change priorities.
• Build strong senior stakeholder relationships, influencing decisions and ensuring business needs are clearly understood and prioritised.
• Lead workshops to define outcomes, user requirements, data needs and high-quality business requirements.
• Support planning, estimation, impact assessment and change readiness across analysis, delivery, implementation and support activity.
• Work with Change Management, Business Implementation and IT colleagues to ensure requirements are delivered, adopted and benefits are realised.

Essential Experience & Knowledge

• Proven experience as a Principal or Senior Business Analyst, ideally within financial services, a regulated environment or a relevant transferable industry.
• Experience leading business analysis across large, complex and/or regulatory projects and programmes.
• Strong business architecture experience, with the ability to connect analysis activity to wider strategic goals.
• Confident using formal and hybrid analysis techniques to define and document requirements within complex change programmes.
• Good understanding of agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery models.
• Strong communication, facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively across diverse teams and levels of seniority.
• Comfortable leading change, creating clarity and bringing people with you through complex transformation.

Required

• Logical and analytical thinking, with the ability to create practical strategies and solutions.
• Strong planning, prioritisation and time management skills.
• Leadership, influence and clear communication to drive action.
• A positive, resilient and proactive approach, with confidence working through ambiguity.
• Self-motivation and the ability to manage competing priorities to tight deadlines.

Why Join Us?

• Work on high-profile capital markets transactions
• Gain exposure to both Kensington Mortgages and Barclays
• Collaborate with experienced professionals across structured finance, treasury, risk and capital management

Develop your technical, analytical and commercial expertise in a dynamic, highly regulated environment

Play a key role in supporting strategic capital management and transaction execution

If you`re passionate about structured finance, data analytics and capital markets, and you`re looking for an opportunity to make a real impact, we`d love to hear from you

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