Overview
The Data Business Analyst will play a crucial role in a major enterprise transformation programme, primarily focusing on the Finance and Customer workstreams. Working in a hybrid model, with one day per week required in Central London, the contractor will bridge the gap between business stakeholders and programme delivery teams, ensuring that solutions and reporting frameworks are effectively embedded into everyday operations. This role involves engaging with various teams to translate business needs into actionable requirements and contributing to the overall success of the transformation programme.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Finance and Customer stakeholders to understand business, reporting and data requirements.
- Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions and requirements gathering activities.
- Translate business objectives into clear functional requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with technical teams to understand source systems, data models and reporting logic.
- Define and document KPI calculations, business rules and reporting standards.
- Support data quality initiatives, validation activities and governance processes.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing and business acceptance activities.
- Validate reporting outputs against agreed requirements and business rules.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Data Business Analyst or hybrid Business Analyst / Product Owner within large-scale transformation programmes.
- Demonstrable experience translating programme outcomes into sustainable BAU processes, reporting frameworks and operational standards.
- Strong SQL skills, with the ability to interrogate data, validate outputs and support detailed analysis.
- Experience gathering and documenting complex business, reporting and data requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across both business and technical teams.
- Experience defining KPIs, reporting standards, business rules and data governance requirements.
- Ability to map requirements back to source systems and understand underlying data structures.
- Experience supporting testing, validation and business sign-off activities.