Job Description
Lloyds Bank GmbH and its brands Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank have won over 1 million satisfied customers in recent years. And this thanks to convincing products and, above all, our committed colleagues who want to achieve the best for our customers every day with new ideas, challenges and joy. In order to continue writing our success story, we are looking for the right reinforcement for our teams, because all our ambitious goals would be unattainable without teamwork. We also welcome career changers.
For our office in Berlin Mitte we are looking for a
Senior Business Analyst (m/f/d)
- Lead detailed business and technical requirements analysis for banking projects with strong focus on core banking platforms ensuring all functional, non-functional and regulatory needs are comprehensively captured
- Support evaluation of vendor proposals, system demonstrations and discovery phases, providing critical analysis, and recommendation for different systems selection
- Work closely with diverse stakeholders, business units, IT teams and external parties to gather input, align objectives and address concerns through the whole analysis process
- Create and maintain detailed documentation including product specifications, business processes, requirements traceability matrices, providing transparency to all stakeholders
- Conduct in-depth gap analysis between current state capabilities and desired future state to identify gaps, inconsistences and areas requiring customization and further improvements
- Evaluate the potential impact of proposed solutions on business processes, data flows, operations, technology architecture and customer
- Provide strategic and business input on the design and architecture of core banking ecosystem, working with IT architects and other technical specialists to shape system capabilities
- Oversee and review the development of both functional and technical specifications, ensuring alignment between requirements and system capabilities
- Address and resolve high impact and complex issues in the core banking ecosystem, such as critical system integrations, and major process inefficiencies
- Lead negotiations and interactions with external vendors and partners
- Engage with senior leadership and key decision-makers to present analysis and influence strategic decisions
- Oversee and review end to end testing strategy, especially UAT phase
- Guide and mentor other analysts, providing expertise, oversight and ensuring quality outputs across the teams
- Educated to bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Sound experience in business analysis within the banking sector
- Strong expertise in core banking systems, processes and regulatory requirements
- Strong understanding of system architecture, data modelling, business process engineering and digital transformation trends within the banking sector
- Proven capability in managing change initiatives and complex projects
- Experience leading and mentoring teams of business analysts
- Proficiency in working with various project methodologies such as Agile, Scrum and hybrid approaches
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities
- Strong verbal and written communication skills English. German is a plus
- Good knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, MS Office and MS Visio
- An international team with colleagues from more than 50 different countries
- Social benefits such as a company pension scheme and capital formation contributions
- 30 days holiday as well as 24 and 31 December as non-working days
- Employee Assistance Programme – personal 24/7 helpline for all employees
- Various possibilities for flexible working, i.a. various part-time models, flexitime
- Extensive, very flexible home office arrangements
- Possibility to work from other EU countries for up to 30 days per year
- Additional benefits such as sports activities, free fruit, nuts and drinks
- Employer contributions to BVG job ticket and a Lease a bike programme
- An informal corporate culture - without dress code and ‘Sie'.
- An excellent learning culture and opportunity to improve your professional competencies
- Easily accessible city centre offices, in the vicinity of many shops and restaurants to which you receive a discount