Senior Business Analyst

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Job Category:
Technical Specialist / Manager

Location:

Glasgow, GB, G2 1EH
Liverpool, GB, L3 1NW
London, GB, EC2V 7QN

Date: 8 Oct 2026

At Rathbones, our purpose is to help more people invest their money well, so they can live well.

We are one of the UK’s leading providers of wealth management, investment management, financial planning and asset management services. We work with individuals and families, charities, trustees, financial advisers and other professional partners to help them make confident decisions about money and investments.

Our advisers take the time to understand each client’s goals, values and circumstances. Together, we create a personalised approach designed to manage, preserve and grow their wealth over the long term.

Our services include discretionary investment management, financial planning, fund and asset management, tax planning, trust and company management, and specialist responsible investment services through Rathbone Greenbank Investments. We also work with financial advisers to help them deliver positive outcomes for their clients.

With roots dating back to 1742, Rathbones has been trusted for generations. Today, we manage £120.7 billion of client assets*, supported by more than 700 investment professionals across 21 offices in the UK and Channel Islands.

Rathbones Group Plc is a FTSE 250-listed company.

* Figures as at 30 June 2026.

The Senior Business Analyst is a senior business analysis specialist within Technology and a key member of a cross-functional product engineering team. The role shapes solutions to complex business challenges, translates strategic objectives into deliverable outcomes, and helps teams make effective use of the existing systems estate and organisational capabilities.

Working across business and technology domains, the role operates where requirements may be unclear, stakeholder priorities compete, and significant organisational, process, regulatory and technology change is underway. The Senior Business Analyst leads discovery, creates clarity, challenges assumptions and supports evidence-based decisions that deliver meaningful business and client outcomes.

The role requires strong analytical capability, excellent stakeholder management and the ability to influence at all levels. It also contributes to high standards of business analysis practice, collaboration, service excellence and continuous improvement across product portfolios.

• Lead analysis of complex business problems spanning multiple teams, processes and systems.
• Define and validate business outcomes, opportunities, success measures and the evidence needed to demonstrate value.
• Lead workshops, discovery sessions and structured problem-solving with senior stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Challenge existing processes, assumptions and proposed solutions to identify more effective options.
• Develop current-state and future-state operating models, process maps, capability assessments and other analysis artefacts.
• Assess how the existing systems estate and organisational capabilities can be used, adapted or improved.
• Translate strategic objectives into clear, actionable and testable delivery outcomes.

• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Architects and design specialists to shape product direction and provide a holistic approach to product change.
• Lead requirements discovery, analysis, validation and refinement throughout the product delivery lifecycle.
• Define epics, user stories, business rules, acceptance criteria and supporting documentation to an appropriate level of detail.
• Ensure complex business, client and regulatory requirements are understood, represented and traceable through delivery.
• Support product prioritisation by balancing business value, risk, client outcomes, technical constraints and dependencies.
• Apply analysis techniques across discovery, inception, delivery and iterative product improvement.
• Support and embed agile ways of working that accelerate the pace and value of delivery.

• Act as a trusted adviser to senior business, Product and Technology stakeholders.
• Build alignment across groups with differing objectives, perspectives and priorities.
• Manage competing priorities and facilitate timely, transparent…