Business Analyst – Risk & Controls Platform

About the Role

A well-established technology organisation operating in highly regulated financial and trading environments is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support a specialist risk and controls platform.

This role sits within a complex, data-driven compliance and monitoring domain, supporting the ongoing development of tools used by institutional clients to manage risk, oversight, and regulatory obligations across transactional activity.

You will work across business, product, and technology teams, helping to translate complex operational and regulatory requirements into structured, actionable specifications that support ongoing platform development.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Definition & Analysis

• Work with internal stakeholders and clients to understand operational, product, and regulatory requirements
• Analyse complex end-to-end workflow and control processes within a regulated environment
• Produce structured artefacts including user stories, functional specifications, and process flows (current and future state)
• Ensure requirements are clear, testable, and aligned to defined use cases

Delivery & Collaboration

• Partner with delivery leads and project managers to support planning and execution of product enhancements
• Act as the key interface between business stakeholders and technical teams
• Contribute to backlog refinement, sprint planning, and delivery governance
• Maintain clarity and continuity of requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle

Platform Development & Enhancement

• Identify gaps and opportunities within existing monitoring and control capabilities
• Support the design and delivery of enhancements driven by regulatory, client, or operational needs
• Ensure solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned to real-world operational usage

Testing, Validation & Governance

• Define acceptance criteria and support UAT activities
• Validate delivered functionality against agreed requirements
• Maintain traceability between requirements, controls, and delivered features

Key Requirements

Essential

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within regulated financial services, trading, or risk/control environments
• Strong understanding of transactional workflows and/or monitoring or surveillance-type processes
• Experience working with complex, multi-step operational processes in regulated industries
• Ability to translate complex domain needs into structured, actionable requirements
• Experience working within structured delivery environments alongside technical teams
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills at senior level

Desirable

• Familiarity with regulatory or compliance frameworks relevant to financial or trading environments
• Experience working in agile or hybrid delivery models
• Exposure to data-led monitoring, risk, or compliance systems
• Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar

Package

• Circa £80,000 (depending on experience)
• Competitive benefits package
• Flexible hybrid working model
• Opportunity to work on a specialist risk and controls platform
• Exposure to complex regulated operational environments
• Strong professional development within compliance, risk, and monitoring domains