Senior Business Analyst

Role Profile

LSEG delivers truly world-changing insight based on rich content sources. This is a dominant playing field to provide intelligent portfolio analytics that helps financial market participants find more profitable investment opportunities.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled and experienced cross-divisional team to deliver on the multi-year Investment Solutions Portfolio.

The role is a Business, Data and Technical Analysis focused role supporting the Investment Solutions Technology Programmes at LSEG Technology working within an Agile Delivery framework. The role is exposed to a wide, cross divisional stakeholder group; bringing together talent, skills and experience from across the organisation; making it a great opportunity for a creative, yet pragmatic individual who can make the role their own.

The LSEG Portfolio Analytics product set provides real-time market information so that clients can quickly understand the sources of relative risk and return in their funded and model portfolios. This enables portfolio managers to efficiently make portfolio adjustments and clearly and accurately track the changes. LSEG portfolio analytics provides access to a wealth of sectors, characteristics and industry-leading models and the ability to build in proprietary data for evaluation of investment management strategy and results. This role will report to the Development Manager of Portfolio Analytics and Lists.

• Working with the Business and Technology Leadership to deliver business initiatives on time and within budget by understanding the business need and responding with the necessary functional, systems and data requirements analysis.
• Analysis, elicitation, presentation, validation and socialisation of requirements to business and technology stakeholders to ensure all stakeholders have a common understanding of the requirements and the goals/objectives of what needs to be delivered to the business.
• Producing a wide range of artefacts to support strategic delivery of technical solutions and ways of operation such as user journeys, data flows, data catalogues, data feed inventories, data dictionaries, data mapping documentation, data domain and interface specifications and, API and bulk feed specifications.
• Building and maintaining effective, collaborative, credible working relationships and active communication channels with all stakeholders. Be the conduit of information between different teams and responding to questions from any stakeholder credibly and lead workshops with credibility.
• Performing analysis on existing platforms and databases/sources related to the initiative(s) to collaborate effectively with Architects and Technical Leads in-house and from 3rd parties, to collaborate on solution options to meet the business requirements.
• Maintaining a business Outcomes backlog, breaking down Outcomes into high-level epics and stories, providing content during analysis, contributing to the elaboration & acceptance criteria of epics and stories, and leading communication of the epics and stories to the delivery team(s).
• Actively resolve/mitigate/escalate risks/issues/events which may affect strategic delivery and ensuring the expectations by internal and external stakeholders are managed accordingly.
• Providing accurate business correspondence and documentation that is coherent, factually and grammatically correct, effective, professional and engaging at any level of the organisation.

• Articulate, creative, energetic person who is comfortable switching between the 'big picture' view and low-level detail
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to think strategically to solve business problems
• Outstanding written and oral communications as well as interpersonal skills; ability to explain technical detail to business facing stakeholders and business change detail to technical facing stakeholders
• Ability to establish credibility and build strong, confident, collaborative relationships with business and technology stakeholders including external parties, at all levels of the organisation
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines without compromising quality
• Results driven, self-motivated, problem solving, and solutions oriented; takes pride in his/her work
• Demonstrates a can-do attitude, exhibits self-confidence, leadership and adaptability to business change
• Excellent organisational, negotiation, presentation and time management skills; ability to manage business expectations
• Ability to keep abreast of and understand technology trends, see how they impact your roadmap, and how they drive innovation

• Knowledge of Company reference and financial data and related market data; understanding of sustainable investment data and investment strategies such as ESG
• Strong experience in Data Analysis, Modelling, Domain Specification/Design/Mapping, Data Transformation including Business Transformation, APIs and Data Exchange patterns
• Deep understanding of how data is sourced, collected, transformed, validated, managed, used, presented, maintained, governed and controlled within a data centric organisation. Ability to utilise SQL to query database tables and GraphQL as required.
• Good working experience with Agile and Scrum, with solid, proven experience of performing business analysis activities in a scalable Agile environment.
• Ability to liaise with solution architects and technical leads, development and functional testing stakeholders, both in-house and from 3rd parties to ensure the business need and related requirements are well understood.
• Strong and proven 'soft' skills with the ability to communicate requirements in a clear, accurate, concise, engaging and thorough manner to stakeholders across the board.
• Solid Microsoft Office, document management (e.g. Teams), Visio, Jira and Confluence.

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios. If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career.

We maximise each employee's potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal. We believe in remunerating our people with competitive salaries and a range of attractive benefits such as:

25 days' holiday per year

1 additional day off for your Birthday

Annual wellness allowance

Share Purchase Plan

Medical Health Insurance

Medical Subscription (preventive medical services)

Dental Coverage

Life insurance

Pillar 3 Private Pension

Meal Vouchers

Flexible Benefits

Bookster

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At LSEG, we believe that creating a diverse and inclusive organisation is fundamental to the way we deliver on our promise - and our purpose. You'll be part of an organisation of over 25,000 people, spanning 70 countries. We recognise the individual perspectives each of our colleagues brings, and our diverse workforce is one of our greatest strengths. In supporting collaboration and creativity and encouraging new ideas across a diverse and inclusive workforce, we can improve how we are driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support from healthcare and retirement planning to paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

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