Business Analyst

Salary: £52,000 - £55,000 based on skills and experience

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid working (office based in Birmingham) – typically 2 days in the office per week

Established in 1841, Wesleyan help trusted professionals—GPs, hospital doctors, dentists, and teachers—secure their financial future. Today, we’re proud to continue that mission with passion and purpose. If you’re looking for a role where your expertise makes a real impact, and you want to work in a culture that values collaboration, innovation, and integrity, we’d love to hear from you.

Find out more about who we are:
About Wesleyan

The purpose of the role is to provide business analysis services, including requirements elicitation, facilitation, and process mapping.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference:

• Provide technical expertise through the BA skill set including, but not limited to: requirements elicitation; process analysis; stakeholder management; data analysis; pre-project analysis etc.
• Work closely with colleagues at all levels to secure their active participation in change, support agile ways of working and contribute towards achievement of company objectives.
• Critically review and evaluate any proposed solutions identifying alignment with business requirements, making recommendations to Programme Management ensuring they are fully aware of key risks and assumptions, and marrying up technical limitations with operational realities.
• Coordinate and support initiatives through to implementation delivering business benefits
• Facilitate workshops, focus groups, planning groups and other related meetings with Key Stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts
• Draft and obtain sign off for project documentation, which may include;
  Business Requirements Documents, Business Design documents;
  Process Maps, Communication Plans, Risk and Issues Logs, Business Benefits Realisation Plans, KPI reports
• Build relationships across the business and with suppliers, understanding issues and actively support their resolution.
• Act as technical knowledge custodian, change advocate and cultural champion for the Programme
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, business users, senior operational management, customers and third parties

• Proactive; forward thinking and open to change/new concepts
• People focused, ensuring that team members are always supported to allow them to perform at the highest level
• Results-focused, displaying energy levels and personal commitment that inspires others to action
• Ensures application of agreed standards at all times, even under periods of extreme pressure
• Able to successfully manage a range of differing stakeholder requirements, adopting effective communication strategies in order to do so
• Secures buy-in and commitment from others, both inside and outside of the project team, in order to build positive working relationships and joint successes
• Responds quickly and decisively to tackle significant issues, keeping others focused and on track in agreeing and delivering effective countermeasures
• Reflects regularly on successes and failures and acts to foster an environment of continuous improvement
• Experience of business analysis, successfully designing, shaping and implementing business outcomes for a range of projects and programmes
• Excellent interpersonal, report writing and communication skills
• Well organised, highly motivated and able to work on own initiative
• Effective interaction and strong communication skills with multiple stakeholders across the project and other key business areas
• Knowledge of how financial services and / or regulated organisations work
• Competence in a range of MS applications – e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project

We believe rewards should reflect the life you live. Here’s what you can expect:

• Annual bonus to recognise your contribution.
• 28 days holiday (plus a culture day!) – rising to 30 days with service.
• Flexible hybrid working for better work-life balance.
• Company pension scheme – matched plus 2% (up to 10%).
• Free secure underground Birmingham city centre parking (subject to…