Business Analyst – Reg Reporting/Large Holdings Transformation
Location: Glasgow/hybrid
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Business Analyst to join a large-scale transformation programme focused on building a new strategic platform within the investment banking sector.
Working as part of a high-profile Large Holdings programme, you will play a key role in defining business requirements, analysing complex datasets, supporting regulatory initiatives, and helping drive the migration from legacy platforms to a future-state strategic solution.
This role is ideally suited to someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, has strong data analysis capabilities, and can engage effectively with stakeholders across Business, Operations, and Technology functions.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse and document business requirements, identifying opportunities to improve processes, controls, and data management.
- Translate complex regulatory requirements into data rules, business logic, and functional requirements.
- Perform detailed gap analysis to support transformation and regulatory initiatives.
- Conduct end-to-end data analysis, ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of data consumed across the Large Holdings ecosystem.
- Support the simplification and optimisation of existing data models.
- Coordinate the resolution of legacy platform issues, working closely with Operations and Technology teams to deliver sustainable solutions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure solutions meet business needs and regulatory expectations.
- Support the development of business cases and feasibility assessments for proposed change initiatives.
- Create operational and process designs that support successful implementation of new solutions.
- Produce project documentation, status updates, and reporting to ensure delivery remains on track.
- Contribute to testing activities, including System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Support change management activities, including requirements traceability, stakeholder engagement, and implementation planning.
Skills & Experience Required
Essential
- Strong Business Analysis experience within complex financial services or investment banking environments.
- Proven experience performing end-to-end data analysis across large and complex datasets.
- Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into business and data solutions.
- Experience conducting data mapping, gap analysis, data validation, and data quality assessments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work across Business, Operations, and Technology functions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a high level of attention to detail.
- Experience managing competing priorities in a fast-paced delivery environment.
Desirable
- Exposure to Large Holdings, Equities, or regulatory reporting programmes.
- Experience supporting platform transformation initiatives, including strategic migrations from legacy systems.
- Knowledge of data architecture, data lineage, and data governance principles.
- Familiarity with Jira or similar project management and workflow tools.
- Experience supporting SIT and UAT testing activities.
- Understanding of risk management and control frameworks within financial services.
What You'll Bring
- A proactive and delivery-focused mindset.
- Strong technical and data fluency.
- The ability to challenge constructively and drive improvements.
- Excellent relationship-building skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- The confidence to work independently while collaborating effectively within diverse programme teams.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to work on a major transformation programme that is reshaping critical regulatory and data capabilities within an investment banking environment. You will gain exposure to senior stakeholders, complex business challenges, and large-scale strategic initiatives while playing a key role in delivering meaningful business change.
If you are a curious, analytical, and solutions-focused Business Analyst looking to make an impact on a high-profile transformation programme, we'd love to hear from you.