Business Data Analyst

Albany Beck is a specialist Financial Services Consultancy helping institutions deliver complex change and transformation while building the internal capability to sustain it. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you'll be choosing to work with an organisation that's passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development.

We are looking for an experienced Data Business Analyst with a strong background delivering regulatory change initiatives within financial services. The successful candidate will have extensive experience working across data-focused programmes, partnering with business, operations, compliance and technology stakeholders to define, document and improve critical data assets. A key requirement is hands-on experience creating, maintaining and governing Data Dictionaries
, Business Glossaries and data lineage documentation within complex regulatory environments.

• Elicit, analyse and document business and data requirements for regulatory change initiatives.
• Work closely with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Data Governance and Technology teams to understand regulatory obligations and translate these into data requirements.
• Develop and maintain enterprise Data Dictionaries, Business Glossaries and metadata standards.
• Perform data analysis, data mapping and data lineage assessments across multiple source systems.
• Facilitate workshops with SMEs to define critical data elements (CDEs), data ownership and quality rules.
• Produce clear business requirements, functional specifications, process maps and gap analyses.
• Support data governance frameworks, controls and data quality remediation activities.
• Partner with technical teams to ensure regulatory reporting and data solutions meet business and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct impact assessments for regulatory and data-related changes.
• Assist with testing activities, including definition of test scenarios and validation of regulatory reporting outputs.

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Data Business Analyst within Financial Services.

Strong regulatory programme experience, ideally covering one or more of:

• BCBS 239
• EMIR
• MiFID II / MiFIR
• SFTR
• CSDR
• Basel regulations
• FCA/PRA regulatory reporting initiatives
• Demonstrable experience building and maintaining Data Dictionaries and Business Glossaries.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management and data lineage concepts.
• Experience performing complex data mapping and data analysis across multiple systems.
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into business and data requirements.
• Experience engaging senior stakeholders across business and technology functions.

• Strong SQL skills for data interrogation and analysis.
• Understanding of data models, databases and data warehousing concepts.
• Familiarity with data quality frameworks and controls.

• Experience with in financial services.
• Exposure to enterprise data transformation or regulatory remediation programmes.
• Understanding of reference data, transaction data and regulatory reporting data flows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to challenge requirements and identify data risks or gaps.
• Excellent stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and drive deliverables through to completion.

• Produces high-quality business and data requirements with minimal oversight.
• Establishes trusted relationships with business, compliance and technology stakeholders.
• Improves transparency and governance of critical regulatory data.
• Delivers robust Data Dictionary and data lineage artefacts that support regulatory compliance and operational efficiency.