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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